James
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Registered: 1st Jun 02
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My gas and electricity bill has just gone through the roof. After questioning it, it seems that it could be valid.
I'd like to start monitoring the usage, I see there are various gadgets that help with this.
Can anyone recommend one? EDF sell the one below for £69.99, not sure if there's a premium for buying it through EDF though.
https://shop.edfenergy.com/Item.aspx?id=539&CategoryID=1
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AndyKent
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Most suppliers will send an energy monitor for free. nPower sent me a cheap looking one when I moved in.
None of them do gas though.
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John
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Registered: 30th Jun 03
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That looks like it's possibly only per appliance. Doesn't say you get the whole house one.
My dad has a wattson, the novelty soon wears off.
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whitter45
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Registered: 15th Nov 02
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alertme.com
CT around incomer and gives power usgae and also cummaltive consumption with their own dashboard
Ct connects to an RF - receiver plugs into your broadband hub and its sends data to the web for you to see
http://www.alertme.com/smart_energy
[Edited on 23-04-2012 by whitter45]
[Edited on 23-04-2012 by whitter45]
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whitter45
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gas will be different story - you will probably need a meter exchange for a meter with a pulsed output and a collector to collect the pulses
Can get devices that read the digits on the meter display but prove very unreliable
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James
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Sorry I wasn't very clear. I'm not as bothered with gas, it's more the electricity. There are only 2 things that will cause that, so it's down to me to stop using the heating/hot water as much.
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whitter45
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alertme.com should fit your requirements
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Whittie
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Got one free, made me realise lights use fuck all, and shower / oven / washing machine / dishwasher / dryer are epically expensive 
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Conway563
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Registered: 7th Jun 06
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Got mine free from npower
Either it's set up wrong or my bills are wrong because there's a pretty big difference between them
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AndyKent
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nPower one must've been set up by you
You set the price per kWh and it does everything else
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noshua
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Is there a website out there that has graphs and breakdowns of consumption in a nice interface? Pretty sure I watched something on Grand Designs and someone used a website or application to do it
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James
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quote:
Originally posted by noshua
Is there a website out there that has graphs and breakdowns of consumption in a nice interface? Pretty sure I watched something on Grand Designs and someone used a website or application to do it
That AlertMe.com one seems to offer that.
It used to use a service offered by Google but Google have discontinued that now and they use their own internal one.
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whitter45
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quote:
Originally posted by James
quote:
Originally posted by noshua
Is there a website out there that has graphs and breakdowns of consumption in a nice interface? Pretty sure I watched something on Grand Designs and someone used a website or application to do it
That AlertMe.com one seems to offer that.
It used to use a service offered by Google but Google have discontinued that now and they use their own internal one.
yes it used to use Google power meter so you could have it on your iGoogle homepage but they removed it
I used it on my property and did the job
will install it on the new house when we move in
also has an app for the iphone/ipad
[Edited on 23-04-2012 by whitter45]
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Ben G
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I got one free with british gas. Tumble dryer/dishwasher makes it go ape shit.
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James
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I just checked with EDF to see if I could get anything for free and they said they only do it for priority customers and I'm not a priority customer 
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Bart
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Registered: 19th Aug 02
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really want a Nest Thermostat developed by an ex apple employee, it looks the nuts and is very clever.
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Conway563
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Registered: 7th Jun 06
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quote:
Originally posted by AndyKent
nPower one must've been set up by you
You set the price per kWh and it does everything else
Yeah, not changed it since I moved 18 months ago
Was on economy7 before so day/night rates
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Toby
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Got a free one from British gas, didn't help with the consumption, just made it painful daily as opposed to every quarter!
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oceansoul
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I randomly had one of these http://www.npower.com/campaigns/smartpower/index.htm show up in the mail. Apparantly nPower sent a load out to some customers. It does the job. Agree with the other comments about lights n tv using fuck all, and the washing machine, microwave causing the instant consumption to go round the dial.
It does record history, but id like it to do trending, to see whats being used when.
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noshua
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quote:
Originally posted by Bart
really want a Nest Thermostat developed by an ex apple employee, it looks the nuts and is very clever.
I remember seeing that when it first came out, properly cool (design + interface).
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