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PowerCost Monitor WIFI Edition If you’ve read our two part series on Energy Tools for Beginners, you already know the importance of monitoring your energy use as part of educating yourself on how you use energy in your home. After tracking your monthly utility bills in a spreedsheet, the next logical step is to get … continue reading 
Find your Power Zones with Circuit Detective As we strive for more knowledge of how we use energy in our home, at some point we begin to wonder how different zones of power are organized in our home. I encountered this issue when I worked on installing my TED 5000 Power Monitor into … continue reading 
Home Energy Monitors With all the buzz from the announcement Google made regarding their partnership with Energy, Inc. and the TED 5000 I decided now would be a good time to provide a summary of all the companies in the residential energy monitoring space. This list was compiled with the help … continue reading 
The April edition of U.S. News & World Report was their Energy and Environment issue and had a wealth of great information on the “Green Economy”. One of their articles was “The Trouble With the Numbers” and highlighted the Energy Information Agency (EIA), run by the Department of Energy (DOE) and the … continue reading 
TED 5000 ***Update 10/6/09 – Google has announced they are working with the TED 5000 as a device partner for their Google Power Meter software. Follow the link above to learn about it and to update your firmware. This is pretty big news and will no doubt send sales of the TED 5000 … continue reading 
Sunpower Monitoring So you’ve made the decision to install Solar PV on your roof! Excellent. Now make sure you spend the extra money (usually a small fraction of the system cost) to install a monitoring solution to go with your system! I mentioned in Monitoring Intro how important power monitoring is to … continue reading 
Power lines are part of the smart grid What is the Smart Grid? If you want the official answer, check out the Department of Energy’s comments on the Smart Grid. If you want the answer you can explain to your children, stay here! Basically, the Smart Grid is a way for Utilities … continue reading 
As I discussed in monitoring intro, knowing how you are using your power is one of the most important steps to take for your energy conservation efforts. While we wait for the smart grid to arrive, we have a few options on the monitoring front. While actively reviewing your account history with … continue reading |
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