What's the Trend?

Don't worry - no style advice. I did, however, find this new cool function in my utility company's website. Perhaps I don't have enough to do . . . . Anyway, you can graph the last 24 months of your electricity and gas usage in various ways. Obviously the graphs I made are above. The blue shows our over all usage - first in gas and then in electric. The darker overlays are the heating and cooling days.

I am pretty happy with our results. Our gas consumption is holding steady and did not completely spike last year with the bitter cold weather. The only things on our gas bill are the range (not oven), the water heater and furnace. We don't have tons of room to improve on beyond replacing these appliances or not cooking or heating our home. That said, we will still be looking though! The electricity appears to be trending downward even in the face of the bitter weather last winter! That is a great sign for the improvements/sealing we have done on our home. The trends are going the right way- Yeah!