My Brultech ECM-1220

[robolo]

Wife was VERY interested in forecasting electric bills, so with her approval my order has been placed and I am all in. "The energy savings will pay for the unit in just a few months" I said.

 

[BraveSirRobbin]

If you can use external active-x, or .net apps check out Global Majic instrumentation controls. I used some of their active X Angular Gauges in the past.

 

[BrettS]

I also thought about another field that shows "$ this time last month" to serve as a quick comparison or how well/poorly we're doing on conservation.

For what it's worth, a comparison to last month is probably not going to be very helpful. The biggest portion of most people's energy bills is heating and cooling and the weather can change a lot over one month. Even if you're conserving quite a bit you may still have a bigger bill in June than May due to the increased AC usage... and along the same lines... you might have a lower bill in September than August even without any conservation because of the decreased AC.

A better comparison would be to this time last year, but obviously it would take a long time to get that sort of data into your system (Unless you can manually load the data from your old power bills).

Brett