Onzo

Onzo is seeking to provide consumers with information about how much energy they use and where they use it, to enable them to reduce their levels of energy usage. Just as retail, telco and financial services customers get till receipts or loyalty card statements, itemised bills and bank or credit card statements that tell people where they spend their money, Onzo will provide consumers with a detailed breakdown of where and how they are using energy.

Torchbox will be working with Onzo to develop a website through which consumers can access more detailed information about their energy usage than that which can be provided on a dedicated energy display device. The website will significantly extend Onzo’s proposition, by providing an aid to the consumer to reduce their energy usage.

Joel Hagan, Chief Executive of Onzo, said: We chose Torchbox because they met all of our requirements: they provide an integrated design and development service; they take a user-centred design approach; they have experience with websites like ours that require a lot of data processing in the background to ensure useful information reaches consumers; and they are keen to work on projects that have a beneficial impact on the environment.

Olly Willans, Managing Director of Torchbox said: We’re very excited about this new relationship with Onzo. The challenge of engaging people with visualisations of their home energy use to help them learn how to save money and vital energy resources is a dream job for us. We’re impressed that Onzo has created the opportunity to make this mainstream and reach large numbers of consumers.

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Torchbox

Established in 2000, Torchbox is an independent digital design and technology agency. We design good-looking, high performance, accessible websites and build robust, scalable web applications. We work with our clients to understand what’s really important to their users: building on this understanding and taking a long-term, strategic approach to web development – based on regular review and incremental improvement – is key to a successful partnership. Torchbox’s clients include the University of Oxford, the International Committee of the Red Cross, the Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP) and WWF.For more information and contact information visit www.torchbox.com