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Supporting Social Energy Applications
Picture if you will a community of schools that wants to start a fun and honest competition around their relative responsible energy production and use, but the schools don’t have the resources to create the infrastructure necessary to share the pertinent information.
This community has a webmaster with the skills of creating Web 2.0 mashup applications who has already created a community website collecting an assortment of related local news and various clean tech topics for discussion and community education. To support the community’s desires for a competition the webmaster extends the website to securely accept an energy intelligence user ID of each participant.
The webmaster then accesses the community of schools’ common energy intelligence solution, acquires each participant’s most recent energy information and places that information onto a Web-based map of the neighborhood. Each school’s spirit around energy use is then demonstrated to the community.
The creation of this unique social energy application might not have occurred if the entire creation had to fall on the web master’s plate. It would have been simultaneously too complex and expensive to accomplish and not dollar rich enough to get the attention of most companies in the industry. But when an energy intelligence solution monitoring each schools’ generation and usage can be easily leveraged by a resource already within a community, this unique need is addressed, the social energy application exists and the application benefits the renewable energy industry as a whole.
Now that’s a nice picture.
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Posted by Brett Francis
Tags: energy intelligence, platform, Responsible Energy, social energy application
