Patent ID: 8489245

Claim:
A system for generating an energy resource, comprising: a computing device for providing information to one or more individual users concerning energy use and one or more acts of energy management to determine one or more present and anticipated needs for conducting the one or more acts of energy management, wherein the acts of energy management are performed by the one or more individual users and reduce energy consumption; a two-way communication device for communicating with the one or more individual users concerning the one or more present and anticipated needs for conducting the one or more acts of energy management, wherein the one or more acts of energy management comprise acts performed by the one or more individual users in response to the communication with the one or more individual users, and wherein the communication with the one or more individual users comprises advice on ways to increase the level of consumption reduction by the one or more individual users; an information retrieval device for compiling and retrieving real time and historical information regarding at least one of the one or more acts of energy management and corresponding energy use reduction by the one or more individual users, and related energy use reduction of the one or more individual users; an analysis device to compare information retrieved regarding the one or more acts of energy management conducted by the one or more individual users concerning the communication of the one or more present and anticipated needs for conducting the one or more acts of energy management and corresponding energy use, with information regarding energy use by the one or more individual users, to establish a corresponding net reduction in energy use from the one or more acts of energy management conducted; and a compiling device for aggregating the one or more acts of energy management and their corresponding net reduction in energy use, wherein the information retrieval device, the analysis device, and the compiling device are provided by one or more processors, and wherein two or more of the aggregated acts of energy management generate an energy resource from the corresponding net reduction in energy use.