Keeling Curve

WattTime

Org Type

Nonprofit

Year Founded

2014

Winner or Finalist

Winner

Mission Statement:

Climate change, and other harm from dirty electricity, is one of the biggest moral issues of our time. Yet bizarrely, electricity is also almost the only good in the modern economy where consumers who want to make the moral choice aren't even allowed to. 
If you want to eat vegan or buy cruelty-free shampoo, no one will stop you. But flip a light switch, and you have absolutely no say whether your electricity use just increased production at power plants that match your values (say, wind) or violates them (say, coal).
People assume it has to be this way. But it actually doesn‚ t. In modern power grids, every single time you flip a switch, a dispatch algorithm decides which power plant gets to make more energy. What we do is reverse engineer those algorithms, to give people that right instead. 
While dispatch information is not public, it turns out we can predict algorithm behavior. And the results vary predictably every 5 minutes. So we‚ ve developed software that enables any IoT device (26 billion and growing) to slightly nudge their energy timing in ways that force algorithms to dispatch power which prioritizes the user‚ values. Not the power companies‚ wallets.
These algorithms are complex, but using them is easy (free, and can download to a million users at a time) and harmless (ironically they‚ re now lowering costs and increasing reliability for power companies). So we stand for the right of anyone who wants to, to just say no to dirty power .

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