Dan Yates
Earth Day
In celebration of Earth Day at Google, Dan Yates, CEO of Opower, gives an inside look at how new technology is changing the relationship between utilities and their customers. Founded on a simple premise, Opower develops home energy management software to engage the millions of people who are in the dark about their energy use across North America and the UK. The company is working with more than 65 utilities to help people find easy ways to save money on their utility bills. So far, Opower has saved a Terawatt Hour of energy, effectively taking 90,000 homes off the grid and avoiding enough pollution to take 100,000 cars off the road.
Dan Yates
Dan was founder and CEO of Edusoft. He sold the 150-person, $20M company to publisher Houghton Mifflin in 2004 before embarking on a year-long adventure with his wife to Alaska's Arctic coast to the southernmost tip of South America. During the trip, he resolved to dedicate his professional life to sustaining what remains of our natural world. He received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year.
