The future we once envisioned is now becoming a reality.

Automation is a part of our daily lives and homes today, and we now have the power to control almost everything from our smartphones – from home security systems to entertainment like music and movies. Voice assistants, like the Amazon Echo and Google Home, are making these tasks even easier.

But did you know that the addition of smart home devices can make your home more energy efficient and help you save loads of money over time?

Here are five simple tips on how you can make your house an energy… >>

Summer is quickly approaching, and the forecasts are predicting another season of record-setting heat.

With the scorching heat comes higher-than-usual monthly energy bills, but don’t despair: You can make a difference on your home’s energy usage this summer.

Here are five easy ways you can stay cool this summer while saving money:

1) Keep the sun out on hot days

When the sunlight comes beaming in through the windows, it can drastically heat up your home. This causes the air conditioning unit to work much harder to keep up with the warm a… >>

With the weather warming up around the country, it’s time that many start thinking about their annual spring cleaning checklist. This year, as you're planning for ways to deep clean, organize or just generally improve your home, don't forget to add energy-related home improvements to that list.

There are a number of easy, low-cost things that you can do to improve the overall energy efficiency of your home, saving you money on each month's bill and contributing to an overall societal decrease in greenhouse gases.

Here are a few that might be worthy of making yo… >>

It's been almost a decade now since the smart grid concept started to gain steam as a solution for improving our nation's aging electric infrastructure. While we’ve seen technology transform almost all aspects of our lives over the last couple of decades, our aging power grid had not really been modernized to match. The smart grid was proposed a solution to bring the grid up to speed with other aspects of our technologically advanced modern society.

By adding smart sensors, >>