First Step
June 26, 2007
After my “awakening”, my first step was to understand how much energy I was using. For electricity and natural gas, I was able to get two years of history from PECO Energy. I also started monitoring my electric and gas meters, writing down the values daily, as well as noting high and low temperatures. For my car, I had no historical data, so I just started writing my total miles and trip miles on my credit card slips whenever I bought gas.
With electricity especially, I now had some real numbers, but no idea whether I was using a lot or a little compared to other people. I was hopping all over the Internet reading about energy when I found Energy Star’s Home Energy Yardstick. I plugged my numbers in, submitted them, and had my heart sink when my rating came back 0 out of 10. Yikes! I was a total energy pig. I had nowhere to go but up.
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