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$950! It seems the only reason to buy your product is to save money by knowing my consumption patterns. That's ALOT of electricity I'd need to save to make up

by seasoup 17y ago

$950! It seems the only reason to buy your product is to save money by knowing my consumption patterns. That's ALOT of electricity I'd need to save to make up $950. Plus, are you going to save me at least $10/month? But when it comes down to it, I don't want to have to think about my energy consumption, I don't want to compare charts and graphs and geek out on it. I just want to know how to use less without having to do more work. That's from a consumer viewpoint, I have no idea what industry would think or want. Good luck!

gridspy 17y ago
Thanks for your honesty. I hope that people who have $10,000 per month power bills can see the benefit of localising their power usage to a faulty air conditioning system or inefficient lighting. Our price won't be suitable for homeowners until we manufacture in quantity.
- seasoup 17y ago
  But once they locate that, why would they want to pay $10 month? After they have gone through the process of cutting down their $10,000 energy bill, what will they save with an additional $120/year? I think you might have some ideas around that, but you need a good story.
  - gridspy 17y ago
    Because most employees are lazy when it comes to power conservation. They will install a GridSpy solution and discover that everyone is leaving computers and lights on all night. Then they send an email around saying "please turn off your computers and lights tonight." The next morning, they look at their dashboard and calculate that they saved $40 last night, or $1,200 if they can keep it up all month. A week later, GridSpy shows that people are getting slack and leaving computers on at night again. Now management has real data to back them up when they point out how keeping up this behaviour is important. Left to itself, power usage will most likely revert to the mean as people move back to their old habits, new employees enter, new equipment is added and so on. A continued installation should help to prevent this.

by seasoup 17y ago

gridspy 17y ago

Thanks for your honesty. I hope that people who have $10,000 per month power bills can see the benefit of localising their power usage to a faulty air conditioning system or inefficient lighting. Our price won't be suitable for homeowners until we manufacture in quantity.

seasoup 17y ago
But once they locate that, why would they want to pay $10 month? After they have gone through the process of cutting down their $10,000 energy bill, what will they save with an additional $120/year? I think you might have some ideas around that, but you need a good story.
- gridspy 17y ago
  Because most employees are lazy when it comes to power conservation. They will install a GridSpy solution and discover that everyone is leaving computers and lights on all night. Then they send an email around saying "please turn off your computers and lights tonight." The next morning, they look at their dashboard and calculate that they saved $40 last night, or $1,200 if they can keep it up all month. A week later, GridSpy shows that people are getting slack and leaving computers on at night again. Now management has real data to back them up when they point out how keeping up this behaviour is important. Left to itself, power usage will most likely revert to the mean as people move back to their old habits, new employees enter, new equipment is added and so on. A continued installation should help to prevent this.