Using a Smartphone to Control Your Energy Bills.
In a world where the cost of energy is soaring, it’s more important than ever that homeowners ensure that they consume it as efficiently as possible. Fortunately, there are a number of technological tools out there that will lend a hand in this endeavor.
Scottish power are one of many energy providers to have launched a smartphone app. This particular innovation affords customers with greater control over their energy consumption than ever before. Let’s take a look at some of the ways in which such an app can help you to manage your energy bills.
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Monitor your energy usage
Perhaps the greatest advantage of using a smartphone app is that it will allow you to monitor how much energy you’re using. This means that you’ll be able to spot longer-term trends and also short-term blips – perhaps resulting from you accidentally leaving the heating on overnight. This provides a brilliant incentive to change your behaviors and ultimately save money – after all, it’s much harder to allow your heating bills to rise when you can see it happening in real time.
Manage your direct debit payments
A smartphone app will allow you to examine your direct debit payments at a glance. This will allow you to see exactly how much you’re paying and from which account. Moreover, you’ll be able to change things around from wherever you are in the world.
Submit your meter readings
As well as monitoring your energy consumption, you’ll be able to appraise your energy provider of it, too. The better apps will do this automatically, which means there’s no longer any need to scramble around in the garage or basement, squinting up at a dimly-lit dial.
Change your tariff
It might be that your smartphone app informs you that you’re spending rather more than you thought on your energy. There’s only so much you can cut back on your energy usage and so it might be that the only way to slash your bill further is to switch to a different tariff. With a smartphone app, this is easily done.
Control your heating directly
Perhaps the most impressive feature of this sort of application is that it allows you to control your thermostat directly. This means that, if you forget to dial back the thermostat on your way out of the house, you’ll be able to do it remotely, without making the trip home. If you decide to come home from the pub early, you’ll be able to turn the heating back up in advance, so you won’t walk into a freezing house!
It has never been easier to take precise control over your energy-consuming life and Scottish Power are by no means the only energy company to do this; other providers have invested heavily in developing their own smartphone-enabled heating technology. And of course, you can always use the traditional Scottish Power number to change your tariff, manage your payments and submit readings, if you’d prefer. Such is the power of the modern smartphone!
I like to be in control via cell phone to do the control of anything. This is a really great gadget control.
This great to be able to control your heat when you are away from home.
I have never heard of this before. This is a wonderful idea.
OH NOOOoooooo! I’m in trouble…my hubby will be doing this to me, changing the heat settings at our house. He already gets me changing the channel with the smart phone! But is really cool. I mean hot. I mean cold. lol!
yes!! i want to use this
I DID NOT KNOW THIS
Didn’t know you could do this.
I would absolutely love to use the cell phone to control the heat.
I want to start doing this!
I did know this could be done, but it is expensive.
I don’t have a smartphone, but it’s amazing all they can do!
I did not know you could use a smart phone to control your heat, thanks!
I would love to use this to control my home’s heat.
I think that it is a fantastic way to control your homes temps.
No, I hadn’t heard of this before.
I have heard of this before. I did not know, though, that it was this easy to do it, until now.
No I didn’t know that you phone can control your heat. Thank you for sharing this.
I did not know you could control your heat from your smartphone. would be useful when you’re away from home.
I think this would be awesome to control the heat. I always turn it way down when we leave the house so being able to turn it up an hour or so before coming home would be great. No walking into a cold home.
I didn’t know that, amazing what they can do!
The things you can do with your a mazes me.
I didn’t know about all these features.
I didn’t know this.
I did not know this. This would be great. I try to control our energy use
I know they have that but I do not trust the security- Never going in my house.
Technology!! It’s really blown up since I was a kid!!!
Now this is very cool & something I need right now! We have a home up north that we are currently deciding what to do with it & this would be great for that! Plus I would love this option in our new home! Thanks for the info!
This is a great idea–it’s always good to track stuff like this!
i did know about this and am wanting it!!
This is amazing, and who knew there was an app for this, which I love, just makes things so much easier for one..
I’ve been wanting to set up my smartphone with a smart thermostat for a long time. It’s expensive though… I do use my phone for most everything that I can though!
I didn’t know about this, but I’m going to tell my hubby about it tomorrow! Anything that would help me control the thermostat and save money would be awesome!
brilliant! another great idea to help save where we can.
I did not know you could use your smart phone to control your heat. Very useful
I had no idea you could do that! Very cool
I would never have known this, but then again, I’m pretty far behind the times!
This is one app that I would use. My power bills are ridiculous to start with so anything I could use to help reduce/control them is awesome.
Thanks for review learn something new everyday!
I was not aware of this app. Too bad I don’t own a smart phone.
I didn’t know you could use your Smartphone to control your heat before this article, but now I do! Thanks 🙂
This is really cool!
I had no idea that there is an app capable of these functions. I think being able to see what I’m using and the effects of that use could considerably help in some situations. Thanks so much for this post about this app.
I don’t use a cell phone so it is all new to me.
Sounds like a fairly good idea but I do not have a smart phone.
Not really sure about the heat control part
This is a very neat idea!
Wish I had a smartphone
I must have this
I didn’t know I could use this to control my heat but, wow, it’s a pretty cool app! Technology is just amazing. 🙂
Great idea but I turn my heat OFF when no one is home. Seems like such a waste to keep it heated. I guess I would set it at a certain temp and make sure the house nvr gets colder than that.
As they say, You learn something new every day! Thank you for sharing!
I did not know this and I will let Chris know about it. We love to save in any way that we can and thank you for sharing.
It can control heat? Really, that is amazing. I love heat. I am always cold during the midst fall/winter time.
Awesome…never knew!
how amazing this is,,i sure would love to try this
wow now that is great that it can control the heat love that ideal so easy it looks like also
I did not know you could use your smartphone for this. I need to see if my power company is one the app works with.
I have a Wink hub and an old Zwave thermostat. Doesnt work great, but I can at least control temperature and such remotely. It is nice.
I had no idea i could do that
I was not aware that you could use a smartphone to control your heat. I don’t have a smartphone anyhow.
That’s amazing! I did not know that you could use a Smartphone to Control Your Energy Bills!
This app is a great way to both economize and conserve energy.
no i didn’t know you could use this to control your heat.
That’s interesting
I had no idea you could use your smartphone to control your heat! This would save my family a lot of money!
I did not know you could do this. What a great idea!
That would be just what I need for when I`m not at home. That gas bill is a killer every month.
This is a great idea! I had no idea there was such a thing!
This is a great idea but I would have to have my kids help me use it!
I carefully control my energy bills myself already. But, I didn’t know about this.
This is good to know. I like being able to control the temps
I did not know that
I would need a smartphone first. Next giveaway?
This is cool. You can be away and control your heat.
I’d heard this but had not checked it out/
I had no idea…. love it!
Yes, I have heard about this. It is a very neat idea!
Wow-I had no idea.
Great idea!
All I have is a land line phone. I have no idea how to use a smart phone, let alone control the heat with it.
I had no idea!! Super cool!!
Yes