Google electricity meters that will let you keep track of your energy use online have hit the UK. Current Cost home energy monitors which keep track of your power consumption will now hook up with Google Power Meter, an online tool that will show you how much juice your using in real time. Could this finally put an end to the tyranny of gadgets on standby stealthily putting pounds on your electricity bill?
Current Cost’s EnviR energy monitor connects to a meter reader to show how much energy you’re using at any one time. But up until now, if you’d were away from home, its display would have been ticking away without you being able to watch it. The newly added support for Google Power Meter means you can log on and see realtime data on how much power you’re pulling in.
Google Power Meter gives you stats on how much energy you’ve used over time and lets you set targets for how much you want to be saving. It’ll also calculate how much your next bill should be and you can set the Google electricity meter to send you regular emails to keep you updated on how power hungry all your tech has been.
If you have a tendency to leave your PS3 sat in the corner of your lounge sucking up energy and putting up your bill, the combination of a Current Cost monitor and Google Power Meter could be perfect. Let us know: how you keep a handle on your electricity costs with a tonne of tech in your house? Would this help?
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