Desert Home

I live in the Arizona Desert, Southwestern USA. It gets hot here, and my power bills got out of hand. This is a journal of my various efforts to bring this problem under control using the cheapest technology I could find. Saving money shouldn't cost a fortune.

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Wednesday, October 27, 2010

This time it was a letter.

Well, the power company sent me a letter and guess what? The meter was perfect. I sort of suspected that would be the result when they too...

Friday, October 8, 2010

Just an update

Not being one to let something like this go, I dropped a note to the power company to try and make sure they actually tested the meter and l...

Thursday, October 7, 2010

Still haven't heard from the Power Company

Well, it's been a week since the power company was out. Haven't heard a thing. I suspect that I won't hear anything until I m...

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Power Company Came to the House

A really nice guy came to the house to check the meter. His work order said that he was sent out on a call to check for a too high reading,...

Friday, September 24, 2010

Power Company Rescheduled

They were too busy to get to me this morning as planned. They have rescheduled for 0900 next Wednesday, the 29th. This is the second time ...

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Mathematics of Demand Billing

Some interesting math on Demand. Average is really the arithmetic mean. This is illustrated by: Which would be expanded to: 1/60 ( X...

OK, so they forecast rain .....

The meeting with the power company has been postponed to Friday at 0900. What? they don't want to work on the meter in the rain? Act...

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