One of our local power utilities here has been giving out a similar device for a couple of years as a pilot study. It's a small display that looks like a digital clock radio. It goes on your kitchen counter and reads the kw usage from the smart meter on the side of the house and calculates the current fee. The utility claims they have been quite effective, because it gets the average consumer to think about their power usage every time they walk past the display. You or I may think about how many watts our computer uses, but 95% of the consumers out there don't. Devices like these change that.

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Way too many adverts here... can't see the actual article.

£69 + £2.99pm = too expensive!
£35 + £0.00pm = the right price!
Its google running the show it should be free.

Am I the only one that fails to see the point in all this smart monitoring?

I mean..I know my PC draws XXX watts and I know that if I leave it on over night doing nothing it's wasted power...

But seriously...are people that stupid that they can't realise that leaving something on when it isn't necessary is a waste of power and therefore need another power consuming gizmo to tell them they are wasting resources?

Perhaps it would be wise to invest in the company/ies producing these smart devices.

Sorry couldn't read the entire article, annoying adverts kept popping up like 'EDF engergy', got a bit annoying in the end.