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Exciting times face Current Cost and their one million users, as Google announce Current Cost as their latest featured device partner.

Icon Written by Gems on May 24, 2010 – 4:36 pm

What does this mean to our users?
All existing ENVI and Classic owners that are keen to get started can purchase a Current Cost Data Cable immediately.
For all our Trec users the chance to get a Google PowerMeter enabled device is easy. Trec owners simply need to purchase an ENVI display and Data Cable bundle [...]



Time for an introduction

Icon Written by Gems on April 16, 2010 – 6:31 pm

So, 6 months have passed and i feel an introduction is well past due…
I joined Current Cost in November 2009 as the Marketing Coordinator and since then my feet have hit the ground only very occasionally! What a busy and exciting 6 months we have all had. Everyday is different and whizz by, promising new challenges [...]



Charting the office electricity usage

Icon Written by Chris Dalby on February 17, 2010 – 12:45 am

As you can imagine, we have been busy graphing our electricity usage at Current Cost Towers and below is an output of the electricity usage.  Here is a simple output of the data for your consumption.
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Connecting the gas meter to Current Cost

Icon Written by Martin Dix on January 25, 2010 – 2:17 pm

John Crouchley’s been beavering away and has been writing about his new project – connecting his gas meter to the Current Cost Envi. By doing this John has been able to track his electricity and gas usage and been publishing online his gas use as well as electricity to Pachube via Arduino.
In his  final circuit, [...]

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RNLI, the charity that saves lives and energy

Icon Written by Martin Dix on November 9, 2009 – 9:17 pm

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) is taking new measures to become more environmentally friendly with the help of over 200 energy monitors.

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This is not just a mousetrap

Icon Written by Martin Dix on April 29, 2009 – 5:47 pm

This is a Current Cost Energy monitor. 
The Envi (CC128) was released during February - the interest in it has been incredible. It delivers all of the features you’ve grown to expect from Current Cost products… a 7 year battery life in the transmitter (in fact, that bit hasn’t changed, so is fully compatible with the Classic)..it has on [...]

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Lets go green with Envi!

Icon Written by Martin Dix on February 25, 2009 – 8:29 pm

So, its here, at last! The Envi (aka CC128) – and the interest has been spectacular.
We’d like to think we did a pretty good job with the Classic – a first in its class, an affordable monitor offering PC connectivity that helped show you wastage and not (just) usage  - of course there’s a huge difference… [...]

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It starts here

Icon Written by Martin Dix on January 26, 2009 – 6:54 pm

Theres a lot of activity surrounding Current Cost and the new products we’re releasing

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