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New website tracks and compares home energy usage
New website tracks and compares home energy usage
Energy costs for the average household have more than doubled over the past six years. On top of that British Gas have just reported a 7% rise in gas consumption due to the cold winter.
But, how do householders know if they are using more gas and electricity than other similar homes? How do they know if they are paying more than they should?
Aberdeen,
Scotland,
United Kingdom
(pr4links.com)
25/06/2010
"A new, free website – Energy Average www.energyaverage.co.uk – helps householders keep track of their gas and electricity usage and cost, showing an instant comparison with similar homes in their area"
Energy costs for the average household have more than doubled over the past six years. On top of that British Gas have just reported a 7% rise in gas consumption due to the cold winter.
But, how do householders know if they are using more gas and electricity than other similar homes? How do they know if they are paying more than they should?
A new, free website – Energy Average http://www.energyaverage.co.uk – helps householders keep track of their gas and electricity usage and cost, showing an instant comparison with similar homes in their area.
Once users have created an account and entered some basic information about their household, they simply enter a few details from gas and electricity bills as they are received. Energy Average will keep track of monthly energy usage and cost.
With the click of a button it will also present a graph showing how energy usage and bills compare with similar households nationally and in the local area.
The website has been developed by Ascend Online Media Ltd. David Melvin, Ascend’s Managing Director, explains the inspiration behind Energy Average.
“Living in a home with two teenagers constantly on their laptops,as well as watching TV and charging mobile phones or other gadgets, I was curious to know how our energy bills compared with other homes.
“But when I looked around I could find very little information. Industry regulator Ofgem produces figures for average annual household fuel consumption, that are used by energy suppliers and switching sites. But these were last reviewed in 2003. Just think how much more you have in the way of electronic goods and gadgets in your home since then. The official Ofgem average figures also don’t take the type of heating or household sizes into account.
“So we set about designing EnergyAverage.co.uk to enable householders to compare like-with-like, letting them see if their energy usage and their bills are higher, or lower, than the average nationally and in their area.”
Energy Average works by using aggregated data compiled from information entered by other site users to calculate national and local averages for similar households. The gas and electricity bill data for new users is then compared with these averages.
Because users are constantly entering new data, the averages are always being updated, meaning that the information is always current. That means the figures reflect weather conditions, such as the particularly cold winter we have just experienced.
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Building on 25 years' experience in establishing and building a PR consultancy business in Aberdeen, the partnership offers the full spectrum of public relations, public affairs and marketing support services, including social media.
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