I Love Graphs!!!

I spent some time on the phone with the electric company yesterday and the lady I spoke to was so excited to talk to me about conserving energy.  We have Pedernales Electric and they have 'MyUse Energy Reports' that track the cost and kwh we use every day.  They even include the high and low temperatures for the day on the graph.  I am a total dork and find this super exciting.

This is the graph from our last billing cycle.  I was curious about some of the peaks and valleys so I looked back on my calendar to see what could have caused them.

4/25 - This huge peak was more than likely caused by laundry.  My in-laws left town the day before and I am sure I was doing lots of laundry the next day.
4/28 - We were out of town.
5/8 - There was a cold front that day so my guess is that the air conditioner didn't have to run.

We have already replaced 90% of the bulbs in our house with CFLs and are just waiting for the others to burn out because they are dimable and will cost a lot and all of our kitchen appliances are energy star efficient. I wash all of our laundry in cold water except for our sheets which I do in hot once a week. Our washer and dryer are not great but we don't have the money to replace them right now. So areas we have for improvement are the air conditioner temperature and electric devices around the house.  We bought a Kill A Watt detector which will tell us how much electricity the devices around the house are sucking, so that should be fun.  We are also going to work on our daughter turning off lights as she leaves a room.