Your Home Energy Monitor
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Your home energy monitor Step-by-step user guide Contents Welcome to the future of home energy In this booklet you will find: • Welcome 3 • Quick reference guide 4 • How to use your home energy monitor 5 Your home energy monitor • Readings and costs 6 This home energy monitor will give you Based on how much energy you’re • Current and past greater awareness and influence over the consuming, the monitor gives you an energy use 8 amount of energy you consume in your indication of what this is costing you – • Carbon Dioxde home. It’s directly linked to your Smart both from a financial perspective and an (CO2) emissions 10 Meter and receives information from it environmental one. • Energy consumption based on your usage. This information is With this information at your fingertips, you alarm function 12 displayed clearly on the monitor, so you can can manage your home energy better and get a much more detailed picture of your live in a more sustainable way. • Useful tips and health energy habits. The monitor shows you the and safety 13 This booklet tells you how the monitor following: works and contains important safety and • Current electricity usage & cost in real operating instructions. Please read these If you have any questions time (every 15 seconds)† carefully before using your monitor. about this trial, please call • Historic electricity usage and cost our dedicated customer * For facts and tips look in the green boxes. services team free on • Historic gas usage and cost – where 0800 015 8787* applicable (updated every 30 minutes) • Indication of CO2 emissions • Current tariff information †If you choose to switch to a different EDF Energy tariff, there may be a delay for your Smart meter to reflect the revised rate(s) on your energy monitor *If a Smart gas meter has not been fitted then these screens will show electricity data only 2 3 Quick reference guide How to use your home energy monitor Helpful Information Your electricity usage is measured by your electricity meter, and appears on your 1. Select 5. Electricity demand (load) indicators The home energy monitor uses the light bulb symbol to identify when the information on electricity bill, in kilowatt hour (kWh) units. * The appliances in your home use various This button switches between electricity • Green: current household’s electricity display is relevant to electricity usage and the flame symbol for gas usage . The default * amounts of energy. A typical kettle will be and gas . use is below 1kW screen provides an instant display of your electricity usage. As a quick way to monitor how much power is being used around the home, the home energy monitor has a traffic rated at about 2kW which means while in 2. Readings/Costs • Amber: current household’s electricity use it consumes 2kW of power per hour. light system of visual indicators beneath the display; where green represents lower usage, 1 This button switches through cost for use is between 1kW and 2.2kW If the kettle were to be used for a total whereas red indicates a higher usage. These are described in more detail below: usage now, costs for yesterday, the last • Red: current household’s electricity use time of one hour it would consume 2kWh 7 days and the last 28 days. is over 2.2kW or 2 units of electricity. Through switching 2 Current electricity usage is below 1kW 3. Usage 6. Message waiting (see note 1) the individual appliances on and off, the monitor screen will allow you to start to 3 This button switches through graphs of Current electricity usage is between 1kW and 2.2kW The flashing blue light indicates a see how much individual appliances use as electricity and gas* usage (in kW or kWh) message has been received from Current electricity usage is over 2.2kW well as the cost of running them. 4 for now, today, the last seven days, the EDF Energy, and will remain lit until you 5 last 28 days and the last 12 months. press 6a button to read the message. If Useful tip you’d like to read the message again at Why not start by turning off all appliances 4. CO2 emissions 6 This button switches through totals and a later date, just press button under the you can do without for a few minutes. This could include lights, TV’s and digi boxes graphs of CO kgs emitted due to your blue light. Your monitor can only store 2 but not fridges or boilers. Then check your household’s energy use now, the last one message at a time, which means 1 Time or temperature. home energy monitor to see how many 6a when you receive a new message, the old 1 2 3 2a seven days, the last 28 days and the last 2 Current electricity usage in kW. kilowatt you’re using. This figure is your 12 months ◊. one will be erased. 2a Cost per hour in either £/hr or pence/hr ‘base load’. (see note 1) 7 7. Menu at the current rate of usage. Knowing your base load can help you see 8 Pressing this button will display the 3 Bar graph showing the last hour’s how much energy your appliances use; menu options, including the usage alarm simply deduct it from the total number Please do NOT dispose of this product with your other household or municipal waste. Take it to an electronics electricity usage in kW. Each bar settings. of kilowatts displayed. Overtime, you recycling centre or return it to EDF Energy, 255 Broadway, Bexleyheath, Kent, DA6 8ET. represents one minute. 8. Menu navigation (see note 1) should gain a better understanding of your * If a Smart gas meter has not been fitted then these screens will show electricity data only. day-to-day energy use and can look for Use these buttons to scroll up and down Default screen: current electricity usage ways to reduce this by using energy more ◊ The periods of time this data represents will start from when your new Smart Meter was fitted. and select menu options. Current load information is not available for gas as the home energy monitor only gets readings from the consciously. 1 gas meter every 30 minutes. To press buttons 6 to 8 open the clear cover first. 4 5 CO2 CO2 Emissions Emissions Readings and Costs - electricity display example. Readings and Costs - gas display example Readings/costs Readings/costs (available only if a gas Smart Meter was fitted) The home energy monitor will display energy costs over varying periods, together with meter readings. Press the Readings/Costs button to The light bulb or gas flame at the top of the screen indicates which energy type you’re looking at. You can switch between the two using the viewUsage this information. topUsage Select button. The light bulb or gas flame at the top of the screen show which energy type the information displayed refers to. You can switch between These images are for illustration purposes only. electricity and gas (if applicable) using the top Select button. These images are for illustration purposes only. 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 2 A. First Press – cost now: B. Second Press – Historical Cost: C. Third Press - Rate now: A. First Press: Cost Today B. Second Press – Historical Cost: 1 Current cost displayed in pence/hour^ Historical costs for electricity usage for 1 Cost displayed in pence/kWh at the rate C. Third Press: 1 Cost of gas since start of day Historical costs for gas usage for 2 Bar graph showing the last hour’s yesterday 1 the last seven days 2 and currently active Current gas costs and actual meter yesterday 1 the last seven days 2 and electricity usage in kW. Each bar the last 28 days 3 ◊ 2 Actual meter reading as displayed on the 2 Graph of hourly usage since start of day readings. the last 28 days 3 ◊ represents one minute. meter. 1 Cost displayed in pence/kWh at your current unit rate. 3 ^ This is your current usage.This is in kWh multiplied by your current tariff’s unit rate. ◊ The periods of time this data represents will start from when your new Smart Meter was fitted. 2 Actual meter reading in m shown as it ◊ The periods of time this data represents will start from when your new Smart Meter was fitted. appears on the meter. Changing bulbs – easy way to save Did you know? According to the Energy Saving Trust. Lighting accounts for 7% of a typical household’s electricity bill but it’s also one of the easiest ways Radiator reflector panels reflect heat from the radiator back into the room, instead of letting the heat out through an external wall. They to reduce your energy use and spend. Just by replacing a traditional light bulb with a compact fluorescent bulb of the same brightness you have the most benefit when installed on unisnsulated walls.** could save a significant amount of money over the life of the bulb*. *energysavingtrust.org.uk/Electricity/Lighting **energysavingtrust.org.uk/Insulation/insulating-tanks-pipes-and-radiators 6 7 CO2 Emissions Readings/costs Your current and past energy use You may use this information to help you Usage identify what energy saving behaviours have been effective and also what events The home energy monitor stores historic information on your energy usage that will help you to compare different time periods.‡ This resulted in higher energy use over the additional information is displayed by pressing the usage button.