First Utility and Opower partner to nudge households towards energy saving

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Partnership to inject neighbourly competition into domestic energy efficient efforts

Independent electricity provider First Utility is to partner with US efficiency and smart grid software company Opower to pilot a new energy efficiency project, which the company claims could save customers...

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