I literally have no idea how much energy my apartment uses. This is like not knowing whether your car gets 10mpg or 50mpg.
Feels like a big gap in infrastructure situation awareness.
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Why’s that? Take your bill and divide by 30 for daily average - you can see both volumetric and peak consumption
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I’ve never done that math, I don’t even look at the bill (wife pays it). It should be a meter, not paperwork, since live dynamic usage level is the key
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Basically :)
I want a meter I can glance at on the wall
Interested in wattage, not cost so much
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I’ve long felt that informing *every* household of their electricity, gas, water and why not while we’re at it waste consumption would make a nice micro manhattan project
Really common sense for that info insanely easy to access as efficiency is lowest cost decarbonization
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Check out the Green Button Data initiative. You should be able to download your data there -> greenbuttondata.org
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Developing intuition for kW usage of appliances does take a bit of practice though
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We are on the verge of fine grain energy usage. In a few years it will be infinitely expense to waste energy. The “same way” it’s infinitely expensive to commit murder in a common law jurisdiction. Those two value pools are convergeing.
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Not in the UK, EPC rating is included in pretty much every real estate ad: gov.uk/buy-sell-your-
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