The company Grounded Power is working with utilities and consumers to help people realize where and when they use the most electricity. This realization of power use can help consumers prepare for the available savings coming with the smart grid initiative. There “Interactive Customer Engagement System” helps people become involved in actively saving on electricity use by helping to identify the appliances within a household that are using the most power.

One of the ideas behind the smart grid is to help people identify peak use times and cut back on power use to save money. However, on the other hand if a household’s power use does not cut back during these times they may be subject to much higher costs. The answer to these changes is education. Grounded Power’s products and services can help with this.

Here is a quick video from their website: