The Edenbee blog has a post today about a sweet-looking smart meter (designed by IDEO) from German utility company Yello Strom, that integrates with Google PowerMeter and Twitter.  While it may not seem very practical to stream energy data through Twitter, it’s offerings like this, that open up the energy data stream, that will enable the kind of third-party experimentation and innovation that is sorely needed in the space.  BusyBee points out,

While adding Twitter to their mix will undoubtedly give Yello Strom a PR-boost, the larger goal is to feed energy data into any tool customers may be using. As explained by Yello Executive Director Martin Vesper, “Our goal is to use as many different channels as possible to inform our customers about their energy consumption.”

See also this original posting at Springwise.

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1. Sparzähler Online A little bit more about the Yello Google PowerMeter interface...