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April 12, 2012

The Energy Dashboard Delusion

Pitcher and Watson, GreenTech Grid


GreenTech

In the previous installment, we argued that energy dashboards are marketed, sold and purchased in a way that fundamentally misunderstands the true nature, value, and purpose of these tools. We believe that in many cases the wrong tools are being purchased or the tools are being used ineffectively, if at all. Far from proposing that dashboards are of no value, we believe that the really good ones can be valuable tools.

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TAGGED: energy efficiency, energy conservation, energy dashboard

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