MECOMS empowering companies to lower carbon footprints

Environmental Care and lowering the carbon foot print has become a point of major concern. Its was felt essential that technology should be included in the MECOMS product to help Utilities and End customers.

 MECOMS Entry for Ingenuity Point

“Dropping your load to reduce your carbon footprint - it is not enough, however, just to conserve scarce resources such as electricity. When electricity is used it is equally important how much is used, in order to avoid blackouts and minimize the need to bring more power plants on line”, Jon Wellinghoff is a commissioner with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

A number of areas are identified where the MECOMS functionality could be enhanced to increase its readiness to support a greener world:

For the Consumer :
- Create a self service portal for Automatic Profile presentment
- Giving Focus on the Consumption behavior
- Opportunity for Carbon Foot Print reduction and cost savings
- Cost saving due to creative tariff schema made possible by the introduction of smart metering
- This is offered by using the Office SharePoint 2007 platform 

For the Utility Companies :
- Offer Trading and balancing functionality to manage supply and net equilibrium of alternative energy supplies such as Wind Energy, Waste Combustion or composting energy.
- Offer Smart metering functionality allowing load switching and creative tariff schemes