Microsoft Joins the Home-Energy Management Game with Hohm

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First it was Bing vs. Google, now it’s Hohm vs. Power Meter.

Microsoft today launched Hohm, its still-in-beta (and as-yet-unavailable) home energy-management application.

The idea behind Hohm is to take advantage of growing investment in smart grid technologies to supply detailed data about the energy used by the appliances in your home (as well as the overall energy used in your home), as a way of spurring awareness and reductions in consumer energy use.

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Laura L. Barnes is a librarian at the Prairie Research Institute Library, embedded at the Illinois Sustainable Technology Center, and writes for Environmental News Bits.
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