People can’t/won’t change their energy consumption habits if they can’t see how they actually use energy. Monitors like TED: The Energy Detective are valuable tools for tracking energy use and should be installed in every home, but they are, for the most part pretty utilitarian- they give you the information and that’s about it.

The Energy Aware (EA) Clock takes energy monitoring and drops in a healthy does of sexy sleek design. The clock shows the peaks and valleys of a days energy use, the more electricity that’s used, the farther the line runs from center.

Energy monitoring gets sexy

Imagine if every home had monitors like TED paired with clocks and other devices like the EA Clock showing how much juice it was pulling down (and how much it’s costing) from the energy grid. People adjust their habits when they see the nickels and dimes running out the door.

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