You may have noticed some of the new features we’ve been secretly adding to WattzOn over the past few weeks. One of the most exciting is that those of you in the Northeast who use NSTAR and you Californians who use PG&E (with support for more companies to come) now have the ability to link to their online utility bills.
Instead of estimating monthly electricity and heating energy use in your housing profile, all you have to do is fill in your utility login information and all of your data will be automatically uploaded. WattzOn will grab new bills as they appear, so you don’t have to do anything after you set it up to keep WattzOn up to date with the latest information from your life. Even if you can’t use the automatic feature, you can easily enter your utility bill data manually. Just click on the “Have more data? Enter it here” links on your Housing page to get to these advanced tools. From there, you can either go to “Link to your utility provider account” or just start entering the data in the form.
In addition to being a much more accurate accounting of your home power consumption, this new feature also lets you track your energy use (in watts and kg of CO2) over time with a new graphing tool. Check out the graph of our utility bills here at Synthesis Studios:
I suppose it’s not too surprising that the majority of our energy use is in electricity given that we’re a software company with servers, computers, and miscellaneous gizmos galore. And, it’s interesting to watch exactly how the summer months use more electricity (for A/C) and the winter more natural gas (for heat). But, perhaps most usefully, we can do month-to-month comparisons and see how our energy saving measures are working. Last March we used 2,033 kWh of electricity and this March we’re down to 1,898 kWh, so we must be doing something right!
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May 26, 2009 at 6:01 pm
[...] it’s worth repeating that if your electricity is from one of the supported vendors, WattzOn can do all of ...