Big drop in electricity use

Saturday, 5:36 pm

By Kate

Sep

29

2007

My September electric bill arrived online this morning. The meter reading was on the 27th. I’ve come close to cutting this month’s use in half over last month. With a total due of $20.33, I’m liking this more and more. I wonder if the electric company will send someone around to check my meter, one of these days, to make sure it’s working properly.

Under the category of WANT vs NEED, I’ve been drooling over this PowerCost Monitor for the last few months. I know that it would help me cut more electricity use, but, at this point, I don’t think it would benefit enough to pay for itself any time soon.

This summer, one of the electric utilities in Massachusetts (NStar) offered this gadget to its customers for a cool $29.95. My utility (National Grid) has handed out 300 of them for a pilot project. Maybe they’ll offer it up, at a slashed price, to all their customers sometime in the next year. I’d grab one in a second if they did.