A diverse group of powerful nonprofit organizations, corporations, and coalitions joined together recently sending a letter to President Obama in support of green technology.  The letter calls for policies that support consumer empowerment to better manage their energy consumption, particularly through the use of technology.

“We are writing to ask that your Administration adopt the goal of giving every household and business access to timely, useful and actionable information on their energy use.  By giving people the ability to monitor and manage their energy consumption, for instance, via their computers, phones or other devices, we can unleash the forces of innovation in homes and businesses.  At the same time, we can harness the power of millions of people to reduce greenhouse gas emissions — and save consumers billions of dollars.”

Broadband deployment and adoption is key to meeting these goals, which is why signatories include broadband providers AT&T and Verizon, in addition to organizations like the Center for American Progress, Environmental Defense Fund, Natural Resources Defense Council, and the Pew Center on Global Climate Change.  Even the FCC’s Energy and Environment Director Nick Sinai applauded the letter. “It’s encouraging to see a diverse set of influential organizations endorse the principle that consumers should be able to get access to timely energy data as a way to ‘unleash the forces of innovation in homes and businesses’ and prevent millions of tons of greenhouse gas emissions,” Sinai said in his recent blog posting on the FCC’s BlogBand blog.

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