Beyond The Grid

Consumer-Driven Innovation: Achieving Product-Market Fit in Energy

An Angular 2 app from inception to production

At Inspire, we are building ways for you to gain useful and actionable insights about your home. We’re creating tools to enable you to see how your home is performing and give you recommendations for areas to improve your sustainability footprint…

Rationalizing Energy Efficiency

Today’s utility industry is an interesting paradox: on one hand, we have monopolistic incumbents…

Learning and earning our way to member loyalty

People expect companies today to be approachable, helpful, and even purposeful — almost like we expect of each other. As technologies like voice command, automation, and artificial intelligence become more ubiquitous in our daily lives, these…

The Hard Things About Hardware: An Exploration of Process

Smart Energy Essentials You Didn’t Know You Needed

The Negawatt Revolution: Less is More

Who wants to think about a kilowatt? 100 years of data tells us not many people; and that…

Solving for Sustainability: Aligning Incentives for a Brighter Energy Future

Magic Rocks

There’s something magical about asking a computer a question and having it respond to you.

When I was a kid my cousin had a VTech computer, which was essentially a TI calculator in a laptop shaped case, without the math stuff, and with a qwerty keyboard and some learning games. At…