Tag Archives: Energy Conservation

Monitoring your Electricity Usage with MyUsage and Smart Meters

myusage-summaryWhile catching up on my reading I came across an interesting piece in the Alabama Living magazine & that was that Cullman Electric Cooperative was now allowing one to view their daily electricity usage online. They have joined up with MyUsage.com that provides this service for 41 different utilities, located in 13 different states (3
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October is National Energy Awareness Month & a Free Monitoring Tool

energy_awarness_month_2010Welcome to the 23rd National Energy Awareness Month, where they choose “Powering America – We’re on target” for the slogan. Seriously – their message is that we are on target, as in we are doing fine, there are no issues, so please keep doing what you are doing? I know this is an election year,
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25 Conservation Tips & Tricks

Cable Box Heat OutputIn our last article, “Energy Efficiency vs. Conservation – what is the real issue?” we covered plenty of the issues that involve your actual house while it is being worked on. While we have also had several articles on making your house more energy efficient, money saving tips & tricks, air sealing, green cleaning, and
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Energy Efficiency vs. Conservation – what is the real issue?

bring-it-onI have to admit, I was originally confused by some of the attitudes or opinions given about those in the Energy Efficiency fields. I grant you that there are quite a few individuals in the green community that are five cans shy of a six pack, but the following quotes come from some of the
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