Leafully Wins DOE's Apps for Energy Contest

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By Treehugger | 29 May 2012 | 438

Last week, the Department of Energy announced the winners of its Apps for Energy contest that challenged developers to create apps using Green Button -- an open standard for sharing electricity data of utility customers -- that would help consumers to understand and reduce their energy use. The first place winner was Leafully, an app that calculates a user's energy use and then displays the impact in number of trees as a way to help users understand the environmental impact of energy consumption. Read More