Submitted by scastle2243 on Wed, 09/01/2010 - 8:24am

Reposted with permission from GreenTech Advocates.

Some energy monitoring services becoming available will route information about a home's energy use, and offer energy-saving suggestions and recommendations, through the "cloud," meaning it's all on the Internet.

Some fear Big Brother-like intrusions, especially if the service is from the electric utility as part of their smart grid offerings. And some energy management systems, like Intel's, will keep all the information local. Others, like Cisco's, will be cloud-based, but only with a customer's permission.

Here's what some vendors of smart grid-based energy management systems have to say on this cloudy subject.

Read more: HERE