Reliance Energy, India’s power company has tied up with with Google to offer the consumers the ability to track their power consumption. According to Google.org, the Google PowerMeter receives

information from utility smart meters and energy management devices. What’s interesting here is that the electricity consumption is tracked on the users personal iGoogle homepage, and uses Google Aps. This will also help google to promote the usage for Google Aps and iGoogle.

The service will be available to Reliance Energy consumers in Mumbai, Delhi and Orissa, covering around 6.8 million customers;but its very unlikely that all the consumers will have the Internet connectivity.

The main point under consideration was tracking electricity usage will make it easier to reduce it. Complete details about Google power meter is available at their home page or simply go to http://www.google.org/powermeter/, the site will provide all the details about the project, FAQs, current status, more importantly cover a complete section with tips providing for saving energy.

Look for the Complete partners list : Google PowerMeter Partners