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Understanding energy usage starts at home / Severin Borenstein, Energy Economics Exchange, Energy Institute at Haas, 1/01/2014http://energyathaas.wordpress.com/2014/01/01/understanding-energy-usage-starts-at-home(...) Electricity is probably the least salient thing we consume.  When we are buying groceries, gasoline, clothes, or tickets to a ball game, we are aware that we’re making a purchase and aware of what it costs.  But most of us don’t know how much electricity we use — or what we are doing to use it — as we move through life turning things on and off, or having them go on and off automatically.  If you read this blog regularly then you obviously care about energy use.  So, a fine New Year’s resolution would be to get to know your own electricity consumption.  To do so, all you need is $20 and less than an hour of your time...