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Building Dashboard® featured in NWCurrent.com, Northwest Energy News
March 27, 2007
Portland, OR - Lucid's Building Dashboard® is discussed in a recent NWCurrent.com, Northwest Energy News + Analysis article, titled "Measuring tools evoke negawatts." The article highlights recent innovations in energy-measuring and management technologies that could make an impact on the Northwest region's power supply:
"The idea is that if we can make the information easily accessible to a non-technical audience, we can influence the way they think of the use of energy. We monitor buildings as if they're ecosystems."
– Lucid team member John Petersen
"There really is something to be said for negawatts. A power plant you don't have to build is the most cost-effective resource you can have."
– Dave Kvamme, spokesperson for PacifiCorp, a Portland-based utility
Read the NWCurrent.com article online »
About Lucid
Founded in 2004, Lucid Design Group, Inc. ("Lucid") is a privately held cleantech software company and a pioneer in providing real-time information feedback to teach, inspire behavior change and save energy and water resources in buildings. Over the past seven years, Lucid's team has endeavored to make resource use visible, accessible and engaging so that building occupants have the data visualization and communication tools to manage and reduce their consumption.
Today, tens of thousands of people live and work in schools, companies, community and commercial buildings and homes enhanced by Lucid's web-based Building Dashboard® technology. Now in its fourth generation, the intuitive Building Dashboard® user interface allows occupants to connect personal electricity, water and natural gas consumption with the actions and events that take place within buildings.
