Green Tech Grind has an overview of the Green Button Apps and I missed the submission deadline. I think it is unlikely that my entry would have been the energy killer app everyone is hoping for.

I reviewed about 12 of the apps and got bored fairly quickly. My concept was to display energy data in a more acessable format. Green Tech makes the criticism about the "shiny graph format" used by most of the entries. I agree that the plot format is largely a lazy display issue, a similar plot was included with the sample data on the Green Button Data page if click the view my data button on the button of the page you will soon see a  HighCharts graph of the data. These graphs are only compelling to engineer types like me.

What is needed is a display that communicates to the remainder of the electric bill paying population out there. I will present by design when I get my Green Button Entry finished Real Soon Now, in about a week perhaps next month. If you have Green Button Data you can go to http://greendemo.seasidehosting.st and upload it to the app. The app however needs a few fixes do you will need to hunt for your data in time to see the display.

In my next post I will go through the high level design of the app and how I arrived at that display method.