![The Apps for Energy challenge competition [image courtesy DoE].](http://www.cccblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Hero_Apps_for_Energy_1.jpeg "The Apps for Energy challenge competition [image courtesy DoE].")
Later today, the Department of Energy (DoE) — together with Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E), Itron, and Gridwise Alliance — will launch the Apps for Energy competition, “challenging developers to use the Green Button data access program to bring residential and commercial utility data to life.” Through the competition, DoE will offer $100,000 in cash prizes to the software developers and designers who submit the best apps, as judged by a panel of government officials, energy industry leaders, and information technology experts (more after the jump).
» Read more: DoE to Launch “Apps for Energy” Challenge Today
![Babak Parviz, who is working on Project Glass, developed contact lenses with pixels embedded in the display [image courtesy University of Washington via The New York Times].](http://www.cccblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/bits-projectglass-articleInline.jpeg "Babak Parviz, who is working on Project Glass, developed contact lenses with pixels embedded in the display [image courtesy University of Washington via The New York Times].")
