Reduce your electricity consumption

You can’t manage what you don’t measure.  Although we wrote about little or no cost on our Introduction page, one needs to start with a commitment.  We find that a financial commitment shows that people are committed and not apathetic.

An Electricity Meter helps you measure what’s happening with your energy use and it helps us keep going and keep giving you the information you need to reduce your environmental footprint.

Your first step is to know what your hourly, daily and monthly electricity consumption is. If you have a Windows PC you can send data from our suggested meter to your computer for analysis.

You should only start making changes once you have at least 1 month of data. You might want to try some things right away, but rather wait so that you have data you can refer to.

We recommend that you keep a manual daily log and write in it what appliances were running on a particular day. This will also help you. The idea is to become as efficient as possible before buying any equipment.

Click here to buy a meter.

Click here for Step 1.

Click here for Step 3.