Week 1 with Wattson
So just checked in on Wattson and uploaded our weekly data. Looks pretty good, i guess it’s about trends over time so will be a case of seeing if we can get the figures down. We peaked on the first day which isn’t shown here (not sure why, maybe all of those kettle tests!) and seem to use the most energy in the mornings (no surprises there) but otherwise its showing what I’d expect - i stayed home on Tuesday (showing as Wed i think due to UK/Oz time differences) and my macbook laptop uses 40 W of energy when plugged into the wall (which is a lot when you think about it (= roughly 3 x compact flouros), definitely best to turn your laptop off or sleep it when not in use!) .
Plus the new fridge arrived that day so that would have used some juice firing up (despite being the uber-efficient 4 star rated Fisher Paykel 248L which uses just 387 KW/h per year. btw i highly recommend getting it from appliances online, it was the ultimate e-commerce experience - I ordered it on Monday and it arrived the next day (!) and the guys took the old one to e-waste recycling (!!!)).
Anyway – there’s got to be ways to get our energy down, even though we’re pretty good i think and dont use much – the average Wattson user reduces their energy use by 20 % so we have some serious competition there!
