British Gas New Energy and AlertMe.com trial home energy saving systems

21st July 2009

British Gas New Energy & AlertMe test home energy saving system

British Gas New Energy and AlertMe.com, the provider of smart energy saving systems for homes, have struck an agreement to trial home energy management technologies, to help British Gas customers cut their energy consumption, save money and reduce their household carbon emissions.

This agreement follows the announcement in June of AlertMe securing £8m in Series B funding by investors Good Energies, Index Ventures, SET Venture Partners and VantagePoint Venture Partners, which enabled AlertMe.com to extend its product development programme, continue to ramp up its distribution strategy and to expand the existing team.

The AlertMe.com energy kit is connected to the Internet via the home’s broadband connection and seeks to measure and control individual appliances within the home as well as measuring and managing the home’s overall energy usage.

Gearóid Lane, managing director of British Gas New Energy, said, ‘The introduction of Home Energy Management is an exciting prospect and will help bring the home into the 21st century, saving customers money, and reducing carbon emissions. And it’s all so simple to use - never again will consumers need to stick their heads into a poorly-lit airing cupboard to struggle with complicated controllers.’

Pilgrim Beart, CEO of AlertMe.com, added, ‘When one considers that heating accounts for around 47 per cent of total UK final energy consumption and 78 per cent of energy use outside the transport sector1, the economic and environmental potential of this technology becomes clear.’

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