To avoid rising energy costs each month, you must first understand how energy consumption works. Various factors contribute to increasing energy costs, including appliances that we use more often ...

Want a closer, more honest relationship with your energy consumption? An energy monitor could be the answer. Traditionally, calculating energy usage in the home has been something of a dark art – from ...

SolarCity updates its solar panel monitoring software to include home electricity usage, while Open Energy is creating a touch-screen device to track energy usage and production. Martin LaMonica is a ...

SmartThings on Thursday announced SmartThings Energy, a new energy-tracking service for Samsung HVAC products and appliances. Available now on the SmartThings app, SmartThings Energy is designed to ...

A good solar monitoring system doesn’t just track your solar panel’s output — it also helps you use less energy. We looked for solar monitoring systems that go above and beyond tracking and found ...

During last week’s power crisis in Texas, prices surged to the market price cap of $9,000 per megawatt-hour for several days, resulting in some huge bills for a lot of homeowners. (To put that in ...

Not everyone obsesses about their home energy use. But as rates climb and concern over the impact using electricity from the grid has on climate change, it is becoming increasingly popular to try to ...

If you’re trying to figure out where the money’s going with electricity in your home, then Sense is perfect for you. It goes in your home’s electrical panel and within a month can detect the usage of ...