Comments on: Outside Temperature and Energy Consumption http://blog.mapawatt.com/2009/09/13/outside-temp-energy-consumption/ Your resource for energy and water conservation Sat, 20 Mar 2010 17:58:49 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Tom Harrison http://blog.mapawatt.com/2009/09/13/outside-temp-energy-consumption/comment-page-1/#comment-1267 Tom Harrison Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:19:52 +0000 http://blog.mapawatt.com/?p=1396#comment-1267 Wow -- thanks for the link to the Degree Days site -- I have been looking for just such a resource for years now. It's exactly the missing bit of information that we all need to get a better handle on seasonal energy consumption. And thanks for the spreadsheet :-) FYI -- the link in the blog post to degreedays.net isn't quite right -- it has the http://blog.mapawatt.com/ URL in front of the real one. As I know you have a TED 5000, I wonder if you know of any way to get at the data being recorded by a gas meter. We heat with gas (and use no air conditioning), so our real seasonal data would be from the gas meter. I believe the gas company drives by and reads the meter remotely -- if they can do this, presumably so could I, with the proper equipment :-). So I am thinking that someone could create a device that reads the meter and sends the data to the TED 5000 gateway (converted to Watts). Then it would all be in one place. How cool would that be? Tom Wow — thanks for the link to the Degree Days site — I have been looking for just such a resource for years now. It’s exactly the missing bit of information that we all need to get a better handle on seasonal energy consumption. And thanks for the spreadsheet :-)

FYI — the link in the blog post to degreedays.net isn’t quite right — it has the http://blog.mapawatt.com/ URL in front of the real one.

As I know you have a TED 5000, I wonder if you know of any way to get at the data being recorded by a gas meter. We heat with gas (and use no air conditioning), so our real seasonal data would be from the gas meter. I believe the gas company drives by and reads the meter remotely — if they can do this, presumably so could I, with the proper equipment :-) . So I am thinking that someone could create a device that reads the meter and sends the data to the TED 5000 gateway (converted to Watts). Then it would all be in one place. How cool would that be?

Tom

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