Tag Archives: energy
Burning gas
Being at home over Christmas, followed by a week of cold weather has meant a rather poor start to my aim to achieve 10:10.
Flights for lights
Tesco has for some time allowed people to convert Clubcard points into Airmiles, so on one hand, this story seems a bit of a non-event… Except for the fact Tesco are actively suggesting people convert the bonus miles earned when … Continue reading
Current Cost update
After a few weeks away, I’ve had another fiddle with the Python scripts I run to graph data from my Current Cost meter. You can see the results here. Of note, I’ve switched from using the Google Graphs API to … Continue reading
Real-time-ish Current Cost graphing
Since installing my Current Cost meter, I managed to get Dale‘s graphing app up and running fairly quickly. Since then, I’ve progressed a bit with my own Python. The scripts are fairly thrown together as I’ve waded my way through … Continue reading
My first electricity graph
…almost. I’ve mentioned before how I’ve been reading my electricity and gas meters every four weeks or so, which gives a rough approximation of how much we’re consuming in our house. I’ve got my Current Cost meter up and running … Continue reading
Current Cost
My Current Cost CC128 arrived yesterday, an eagerly awaited treat after my day at Home Camp ’08. It’s already producing surprising data – when I got up this morning, the house seemed to have an ‘ambient’ power consumption of 278 … Continue reading
Energy efficiency as a game
I came across a great post at ecogeek.org (hmm, that makes me sound even more nerdy than I am) today on a topic we discussed at Home Camp. It talks of encouraging people to cut home energy consumption by turning … Continue reading
Saving Energy
For some time I’ve been taking monthly meter readings of my gas and electricity bill – I started a little over a year ago when we moved into our new house. The new house is quite a lot bigger than … Continue reading
HomeCamp: Data, Behaviour Change, Demand Shifting…
I started Saturday morning huddled with an old friend and one of his colleagues in an Imperial College corridor, wondering what I’d let myself in for. I usually spend most of my time in meetings debating the minutiae of corporate … Continue reading