Will You be our Guinea Pig?!
Enrolling Burbank Households Now in a New Program
February 2011
BWP is recruiting single-family households with built-in pools to participate in a ground-breaking energy-saving pilot program. Will you be joining us?
Lack of feedback about how electricity is used in the home causes 15% to 20% of it to be wasted by homeowners. Imagine the savings from cutting that much energy from your monthly bill! BWP’s pilot program will provide Burbank homes with the opportunity to receive ongoing information about the real-time electric use of devices and appliances in their home. Better still, the program will provide easy and highly personalized recommendations via email and text messages about how you can save energy -- and money.
How Will the Pilot Program Work?
At 700 participating homes, a device will be installed at the home’s circuit breaker. The device communicates in real-time through the Internet, transmitting circuit-based information that includes every energy-using item in the household, from your toaster to air conditioner. Patterns of how your household uses energy emerges over time, allowing us to make specific energy-saving recommendations to you. No hardware or software is connected or installed on your computer. A professional electrician will install the device in the circuit breaker box, a task that takes no more than 30 minutes and does not require a power outage to the home. There is no cost to you to participate in this two-year test program. Our goal is to help you discover easy ways to save energy.
BWP is taking applications now on a first-come, first-served basis!
Do you:
- Live in a single-family home in Burbank?
- Have an in-ground swimming pool?
- Have high-speed Internet connection?
If you answer ‘yes’ to all three questions above and are willing to run your pool pump during off-peak energy hours, usually after 8pm, you may qualify for the two-year pilot program. We are taking applications on a first-come basis and are limiting the program to just 700 households, so click on this link to register your interest!
Good luck in becoming one of the first people in America to benefit from this technology!