Energy monitor

dmx005

As prices are going up all the time I wanted to check how you all determine what items in your households are using the most energy, other than trying every electrical item and checking your meter!

Is there anything out there?

Thanks.

noiseboy72

This sort of thing? 13A Plug In Energy Saving Monitor | maplin

dmx005

Will have a look, many thanks.

Markee

This comes highly recommended by Paul Ockenden of PC Pro magazine.

Energy Monitor - Your energy use on your smartphone - Smappee

It apparently attempts to recognise consumption patterns of individual appliances.

Rodders53

You'd have to save a lot of energy to recoup the cost of some of these flashy monitors.!!!

Easy enough to read the rating labels and manuals to discover the power used by most - if not all - things.  Many appliances give 'typical' annual usage figures in their specs.  The heavy power users are fairly obvious...  heating, cooling, cooking, older incandescent lighting, fridges, freezers and washing/drying appliances.

Reading the meter(s) (gas, electric, water) regularly will aid reducing consumption for some... It can be done hourly, daily, weekly...  I do mine every month, so can compare this year to last and the year before etc.,.

Smart meters are 'free' from some suppliers and might suit?  Some used to give away electrical energy meters - maybe they still do - I have one from many moons ago that I got that way.