Online Monitoring Tool - the way forward in energy management

The challenge to create the right consumer behaviours has two significant elements; one is that the incentive to change to something better is hard to capture. If you engage in environmentally costly behaviour, through your energy and water use, you will probably pay nothing for the environmental harm you inflict.

These ‘smarter’ homes and businesses will employ technology that tells us the impact of choosing to use energy at a particular time. The impact it will have on budget and on the environment. So we behave in a way that sustains our energy supplies.

As energy prices continue to rise, most European governments are keen to build low-carbon cities. Energy suppliers and their customers, for their part, will need to interact closely. Together, they can devise smarter ways to manage and reduce energy use - at work and home.

Many of their choices have done a lot of good. But equally many regulatory efforts have been costly and wasteful. Some of them have  aggravated the very problems they were meant to solve as in the aggressive controls of new sources of air pollution that have extended the life of old, dirty sources.

Governments all over the world have been taking aggressive steps to protect the environment. Concerned about air and water pollution, and the loss of endangered species,governments have worked hard to improve human health, and to reduce the harmful effects of human activities on wildlife and on unspoiled areas.

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