uyt`239 The Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny (NGC) has launched an App which can be used to iden­ti­fy con­sumers’ en­er­gy use of every­day ap­pli­ances.

The com­pa­ny ex­plained the NGC En­er­gyS­marTT App is tech­nol­o­gy dri­ven and fo­cus­es on har­ness­ing tech­nol­o­gy for greater ef­fi­cien­cies and ef­fec­tive­ness, not­ing that the NGC is push­ing to­ward more ef­fi­cient en­er­gy use and re­sources.

As a tool, the App can pro­vide users with in­for­ma­tion on po­ten­tial mon­e­tary sav­ings from us­ing more en­er­gy ef­fi­cient prod­ucts, as well as share the ben­e­fits and op­por­tu­ni­ties en­er­gy ef­fi­cien­cy of­fers for ad­dress­ing cli­mate change, the NGC said.

The App has five main func­tions in­clud­ing:

•My con­sump­tion: An en­er­gy cal­cu­la­tor for un­der­stand­ing how us­ing a par­tic­u­lar de­vice could af­fect con­sumers’ pock­et and car­bon foot­print

•Switch and Save: A cost ben­e­fit analy­sis to il­lus­trate the over­all sav­ings of pur­chas­ing EE prod­ucts

•En­er­gy Sav­ing Tips: Sim­ple steps house­holds can make to be­come more en­er­gy ef­fi­cient

•Lo­cate En­er­gy Sav­ing Prod­ucts: This en­ables EE prod­uct sup­pli­ers and con­sumers that are in­ter­est­ed in EE prod­ucts to con­nect

•Use­ful Re­sources: Pro­vides ac­cess to links that give greater con­text on the de­vel­op­ments in en­er­gy ef­fi­cien­cy and re­new­able en­er­gy with­in the re­gion and glob­al­ly.

Speak­ing on the launch of the App, Mark Lo­quan, Pres­i­dent of NGC said this was an­oth­er step need­ed to pro­pel the coun­try for­ward in­to a more en­er­gy ef­fi­cient and en­er­gy con­ser­va­tion mind­set.

He said im­proved en­er­gy ef­fi­cien­cy has two ma­jor ben­e­fits in­clud­ing a clean­er way of liv­ing which ben­e­fits the en­vi­ron­ment and a more cost-ef­fi­cient way to use en­er­gy for every­day ac­tiv­i­ties.

The App forms part of NGC’s strat­e­gy to sup­port T&T’s man­date to re­duce emis­sions and in­cor­po­rate re­new­able sources of en­er­gy in­to the na­tion’s en­er­gy mix, Lo­quan added.

He said ad­di­tion­al fea­tures for the App will in­clude in­creased func­tion­al­i­ty to as­sess mul­ti­ple ap­pli­ances at once, an on­line com­mu­ni­ty for schools and EE/RE pro­fes­sion­als to con­nect, en­gage­ments strate­gies such as ed­u­ca­tion­al RE/EE games, and mak­ing the App com­pat­i­ble for re­gion­al ap­pli­ca­tion.

The NGC En­er­gyS­martTT App can be ac­cessed Google Play and Ap­ple App Store. (GKA)