A Great Example of the Digital Age: Smart Electrical Meters

Toronto Hydro installed a smart meter at our house some time ago! The smart meter lets Hydro charge more for electricity in peak periods and, of course, less in non-peak times! One fascinating benefit is I can see every day what my hourly electrical use by kilowatt per hour! I just log into my account on the internet and a whole array of information is available to me. It costs me nothing! Here's my chart for yesterday! It's divided into low, medium and high cost prices. Our peak was the 6:00 PM hour! What will be fun is to see if we change change some of our habits and reduce our consumption or move it to off-peak times! This is a great example of the usefulness of digital information.