Not all electricity is created with equal emissions. The mix of electricity sources to any neighborhood changes every five minutes. The electricity emissions per unit of electric power physically received is referred to as emission intensity and can change by a factor of two or three within the same day!

Imagine home and business owners checking their mobile apps each day to find the cleanest time to use electricity in their neighborhood that week. Imagine businesses prioritizing their conservation actions and investments based on where it has the greatest physical impact to reduce carbon emissions.

Emission Information´s (EI) technology and mobile apps make this possible.

EI has combined the power of Green Button hourly usage data, weather forecasting, power generation and grid flow simulation, real-time grid-power flow monitoring, generator stack-level emission modeling using EPA´s eGrid database, and power flow tracing to create this break-through information technology.

Mobile app users can download their usage data as it becomes available, review cleanest and dirtiest times to use electricity based on their zip code from EI information technology, commit to shifting the use of an appliance to a cleaner period and track the results of their committed actions. The mobile app user can compare and share their actions and results in terms of tree-years, recycled paper or car-miles driven with their friends via Facebook or other social networks.