We have digged into some scientific results showing the seemingly obvious causal effect between independent electricity billing and reduced consumption. This triggers a discussion on how to use smart metering and monitoring software to make energy saving both  fun andmore efficient.

NOTE 1: For some reason, both Alex and Mats repeatedly failed to mention refrigerators and other white goods when talking about the biggest energy consumers in the households. For the sake of discussion, however, these are baseline comsumers in most households and would be less affected by behavioural change.

NOTE 2: The link to the PNAS study discussed: http://www.pnas.org/content/114/12/3091.full.pdf 

NOTE 3: Apologies for the poor sound quality from down under!