How It Works
MeterLeader motivates people to save energy through online challenges
that are integrated with real-time electricity data. Participate in a
challenge by following these 4 easy steps:
Organizers
Participants
Design Challenge
Give your challenge a name, set energy reduction goals, and
the types of rewards.
Invite Participants
Recruit challenge participants by sharing the challenge page
over social media and email.
Monitor Savings
Monitor the progress of your challenge over its duration, and
engage with participants.
Reward Winners
At the end of the challenge reward your winners with a prize
and recognition.
Sync Data
Sync your energy meter data automatically from your online
utility account.
Join Challenge
Choose one or as many challenges as are available to you to
participate in.
Save Energy
Follow our energy saving tips to start saving energy as
compared to your previous year's baseline.
Win Prizes
Over the duration of the competition check your ranking to see
if you qualify to win a prize.
How We Integrate Utility Data
MeterLeader seamlessly integrates your energy data from your utility
account using
GreenButton. The
GreenButton initiative is an industry-led effort in response to a 2012
White House call-to-action to provide utility customers with easy and
secure access to their energy usage information. It allows utility
customers to have more control over their own utility data.
GreenButton uses the industry standard
OAuth protocol, which ensures that your data is being transferred to our platform
in a safe and secure manner. It allows you to connect your energy data
to third party applications without giving up your utility account
login credentials.
How We Calculate Energy Savings
The MeterLeader platform is designed so that only you can see and access your exact energy use data. However, our public facing Challenge pages do display some figures derived from your energy use data. Our Challenge pages display your percentage change in kWh electricity use, therms of natural gas usage, and pounds of total carbon emissions, while aggregating the group’s total kilowatt-hour (kWh) and therms energy savings once a minimum of at least 5 people are participating in the Challenge. This prevents anyone from seeing or being able to calculate any individual’s actual kWh or therm energy usage.
We have chosen to display individual’s percent change in energy use because this allows for a more equal comparison and helps account for differences in home size, home type, number of occupants, and differences in equipment. The displayed percentage change in energy usage is calculated based on the individual’s electricity (kWh) and natural gas usage (therms) during the Challenge period as compared their previous year’s baseline usage during that same time period. Since Challenges are strictly focused on energy savings, we do not count negative values if participants increase their energy usage during the Challenge period.
