Agent Will

As many of you faithful readers know I try to spread the news about cool new innovations in the greening up of our homes and lives. And many of you know that I am really excited by the Millennium Water project (Olympic Athletes Village) going in to the South Est False Creek area. Well, today I get to share some exciting details that concerns both. That feature is the use of the Energy Aware system.

This brilliant little device, which looks like an iPod, was developed by a couple of local UBC Sauder School of Business grads as a project in the New Venture Program and took top national honours in the Canada National Energy Efficiency Awards, and monitors, in real time, the amount of energy your home uses. It is designed to measure and report how much energy you are using in a cost per hour. the goal being that people will almost make it a game to gt that number down to as little as possible. Brilliant!

Every suite within Millennium Water will have this system and how cool is that. Really. This is the biggest project to date for the young company which has been named one of 2008’s Emerging Rockets by technology management consulting firm Rocket Brothers, and previously were finalists or winners of E.F.Schumacher Awards, BC Hydro Sustainability Prize, and the Lee Kuan Yew Global Business Plan.

Congratulations go out to co-founders Janice Cheam and Lauren Kulokas, as well as their whole team for bringing such an innovative and very accessible piece of green tech to the world.