James Morrison
Electrisave
The one 'gadget' my mother uses all the time. It comes with a wireless sensor you attach to the mains cable.
In the case of my parents house because they are elderly they have two meters one for the cheap rate storage/space heaters and one for normal electricity. The display reads 0kW because the sensor is attached to the cheap rate cable when all the heaters were off. When one of the heaters is switched on you see an almost immediate jump in usage of about 0.6-0.7kW ( you can purchase additional sensors as there are three sensor inputs on the wireless transmitter, which would be useful for seeing combined usage, I don't believe you could read the sensors individually )
You can program in the amount electricity costs you per kw and set alarms for usage limits and enter a unit for the amount of greenhouse gas per kw you believe is emitted.
A handy device which I believe are being given away in small localised trials to see how they affects usage patterns. Anyway it lets mum see how many of her heaters are on all over the house from the Kitchen.
Due to licensing problems it no longer seems to be called Electrisave it is now OWL Wireless Electricity Monitor cheaper than it was as Electrisave also available on Amazon , a neat Xmas gift.
There is also the Efergy homeCO2meter which has a memory function ( appearantly also to be included in the upcoming OWL model ) and is about a tenner cheaper.
Electrisave
The one 'gadget' my mother uses all the time. It comes with a wireless sensor you attach to the mains cable.
In the case of my parents house because they are elderly they have two meters one for the cheap rate storage/space heaters and one for normal electricity. The display reads 0kW because the sensor is attached to the cheap rate cable when all the heaters were off. When one of the heaters is switched on you see an almost immediate jump in usage of about 0.6-0.7kW ( you can purchase additional sensors as there are three sensor inputs on the wireless transmitter, which would be useful for seeing combined usage, I don't believe you could read the sensors individually )
You can program in the amount electricity costs you per kw and set alarms for usage limits and enter a unit for the amount of greenhouse gas per kw you believe is emitted.
A handy device which I believe are being given away in small localised trials to see how they affects usage patterns. Anyway it lets mum see how many of her heaters are on all over the house from the Kitchen.
Due to licensing problems it no longer seems to be called Electrisave it is now OWL Wireless Electricity Monitor cheaper than it was as Electrisave also available on Amazon , a neat Xmas gift.
There is also the Efergy homeCO2meter which has a memory function ( appearantly also to be included in the upcoming OWL model ) and is about a tenner cheaper.