1. Smart Meters Allow Companies To Monitor Home-Worker Carbon

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    1. Smart Meters Allow Companies To Monitor Home-Worker Carbon A new service could help businesses more easily include remote staff in carbon calculations Teleworking has been promoted as a way to help companies cut energy use and carbon emissions by cutting staff travel, but there have been problems including the C02 consumption of home-workers in the total used by the business as a whole. But home energy management specialist AlertMe and energy meter company AMEE have now developed a new service which they believe will allow companies to include the carbon generated by home-workers in any environmental emission totals. Launched this week, the Carbon Tracker service allows home-workers to use the AlertMe system to track their energy usage. That information is then relayed to AMEE's infrastructure to convert the energy used into an equivalent amount of carbon. (Read Full Article)

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