The GE team and its partners plan to integrate a package of roof top solar panels and smart grid-enabled energy-efficient appliance and lighting products with its Nucleus Home Energy Manager, to be demonstrated in test houses, both new and existing, across western US.
Nucleus is a part of GE’s Brillion suite of smart home energy management systems helping homeowners to track their energy usage by delivering real time energy usage data to PCs and smart phone applications.
The project partners also plan to conduct an assessment of the integrated package on a neighborhood scale.
Residential buildings, which account for about 21.5% of the nation’s primary energy consumption and carbon emissions, and about 38% of electricity, provide a major avenue for energy retrofits to reduce nation’s energy use.
