Alert Me.com and British Gas seek to lower CO2 output

Alert Me.com and British Gas New Energy announced that they reached an agreement yesterday that will result in the companies completing a joint trial of home energy management technologies to help Gas customers reduce CO2 emissions in their households and to save money on gad bills.

The news comes in the wake of a June announcement that AlertMe was able to secure £8million in funding by investors so that it could continue to work on developing energy systems that are energy efficient.

The new trial for energy conservation is based on AlertMe.com’s Smart Home platform which advises consumers on how to cut their energy costs each year by recommending value tips and energy conservation alerts within the household.

Over a quarter of all energy consumption in Europe and the United States is home energy usage.
The first trail offer to customers by British Gas and AlertMe will be a heating control system that works though automation so that consumers can adjust their heating and cooling thermostats by both comfort levels and energy costs. Additional perks of using the system include the flexibility to change heating from a mobile phone or anywhere with internet access.

In other news, British Gas stated that the company will create 2,600 new jobs to help run their new smart meter technology in addition to the 1,500 green jobs that British Gas announced it would create earlier in 2009.

Jobs will become available for technicians who have the proper knowledge and training to install the new smart meters at customers home.