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First published: 11 June 2018 then updated 27 June 2020<\/p>\n\n\n

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    Most countries have energy labeling, but so what!?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

    It took me a bill shock event to get me to really think about what to do. Of course managing your energy is good for the pocket but it is also good for the environment. You might ask how can anybody with a Ph.D, in this very field, get caught out like this? The answers is simply based on a few considerations:<\/p>\n

    \ud83d\udea6When you do something for a living you don’t necessarily want to have much to do with that field in your spare time, not so?<\/p>\n

    \ud83d\udea6When the bills are all within  tens-of-dollars of each other, each month, you tend to “take your eyes off of the ball”, as it were \ud83e\udd13. I guess I have so many things competing for my energy and attention that I generally do not fix anything until it’s broke. Unfortunately, not monitoring you energy bill already qualifies as “being broke” \ud83e\udd13<\/p>\n

    \ud83d\udea6The “bill-shock” is something that you get days or weeks after something within your house changes, this with respect to you energy consumption. It is what I call an “after the fact” event, this the criticality of having a phone app that warns you when your bill goes over some preset threshold in kWh\/day. I now have this but it took this energy cost-spike to start “practising what I preach” \ud83e\udd13<\/p>\n

    I have a Ph.D in strategic management around energy management, so have sacrificed significant free time in the study, research and development of strategic frameworks to help all people save money, become more sustainable by saving on utilities bills.<\/p>\n

    Watch my video to see one methodology that may be used:<\/p>\n

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