I meant that the Google dashboard seems to be quite simple in its list of features by comparison with the TED5000, Wattvision or my planned features for Gridspy

I meant that the Google dashboard seems to be quite simple in its list of features by comparison with the TED5000, Wattvision or my planned features for Gridspy. Also, saying that Google is competing with Wattvision is not quite accurate since vendors like ourselves are hoping to integrate with Google's (your) solution. The only way in which it competes is in exposing smart meter data to the average user. That data requires a smart meter and is often expensive to collect (using GPRS for example) so is collected relatively infrequently. Now in many of these areas I have to speculate because smart meters aren't yet being rolled out where I live. To use Powermeter here in NZ the user has to spend money for a solution such as Wattvision, TED5000 or Gridspy. Finally, all this is moot if you want a system that can localise the power usage to particular circuits in your building such as Gridspy.