Comments on: Energy Monitor – How much electricity do you use?

By: Google Power Meter » A Simple Life of Luxury

Google Power Meter » A Simple Life of Luxury — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:25:09 +0000

[...] may remember, about 18 months ago, we got an energy monitor and not long after I posted a comment about a new scheme from Google that provided a similar [...]

By: Alan

Alan — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:56:38 +0000

It looks as though Google Powermeter is coming to the UK… Via the electricity provider First: Utility.

http://blog.google.org/2009/10.....meter.html

Not sure if its worth changing energy providers for quite yet though. Unless of course they are cheaper than our current provider.

Al.

By: So much for saving energy. » A Simple Life of Luxury

So much for saving energy. » A Simple Life of Luxury — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:18:14 +0000

[...] been doing fairly well with saving energy since we got out Energy Usage Monitor. But, we put the heating on today and I have three 20-mile round trips to Aberystwyth planned for [...]

By: Alan

Alan — Mon, 18 May 2009 12:55:01 +0000

Looks as though Google may be trying to come up with a way of viewing your energy consumption on ine too:

http://www.google.org/powermeter/smarterpower.html

I did hear talk of Smart Meters being installed to households in the UK, so this could be interesting if Google get it off the ground.

By: A CO2 diet - Saving money by cutting your CO2 emissions » A Simple Life of Luxury

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 10:42:14 +0000

[...] readers will know that a while back we got an energy monitor to see just how much electricity we were using on a day to day basis. At the time it prompted us to [...]

By: A Simple Life of Luxury » Power Cut - Saving Electricity

A Simple Life of Luxury » Power Cut - Saving Electricity — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 07:02:26 +0000

[...] regular readers will know we have been having a pragmatic approach to saving some electricity recently. We’re still using the electricity monitor and have been keeping the usage down [...]

By: Alan

Alan — Sun, 25 May 2008 04:07:38 +0000

Excellent… Not long after I wrote this yesterday we had a strange power-cut. A few complete outages and then just not quite enough power to get anything going. It is all fixed now though and we are used to such things here at the end of the line.

Al.