Last year I started monitoring our residential electrical usage with the goal of reducing our consumption (I talked about it a few times too ... here, here and here again). So, finally it's a year later - how did we do? My ultimate goal is to … [Read more...]
Some words of warning ... This project post describes what I actually did to monitor household power. It is fairly technical and I am guessing it will only be of interest to you if you are contemplating something similar, or if you are me and … [Read more...]
Since the last post I've added monitoring of the electrical consumption of our hot water tank. The blue bars in the above chart show our total residential power consumption and the orange bars that are layered on top show what the hot water tank … [Read more...]