On Tuesday, Search engine major Google Inc. announced new initiative with the aim to lower demand, and the global warming emissions that come from producing electricity. Google will commence using its software skills in order to help users track their home energy usage.

This step taken by the company comes as a part of Google's effort to introduce hundreds of millions of dollars into renewable energy, electricity-grid upgrades and other measures, which will decrease greenhouse gas emissions.

Already, various fledgling solar, wind and geothermal companies, as well as two "smart grid" companies have received investment from Google.

Basically smart grid puts forward a more improved, less costly method of moving electricity along long-distance transmission lines to local power lines and end-users in homes and businesses.

Google wrote on its official company blog that a smart grid tool called Google PowerMeter is being developed by the company that will show home energy consumption almost in real time on a user's computer.

The blog post informed, "It may not sound like much, but if half of America's households cut their energy demand by 10 percent, it would be the equivalent of taking eight million cars off the road."

As of now, Google PowerMeter is being tested by employees and is not available to the public as yet.