Last year Gavin of the Greening of Gavin blog ran a challenge over several weeks to reduce home power consumption (see the first part here ), and I realised that, in comparison to other people who joined in, our consumption is relatively high (at the time it was 16 kWh/day). I had also been seeing heaps of ads for the Queensland Government Climate Smart home service , which has been running for a couple of years now. As part of the service you get a visit from an electrician, who fits a remote digital power monitor to your meter box, and you get remote controlled "standby eliminators", power saving lightbulbs and some good advice, all for $50. I thought that might be a good way to reduce our power consumption, so I requested an appointment late last year, and we had our service a couple of weeks ago. Wireless power monitor The minute the electrician left we started playing with the meter. We turned things off, turned them on, turned them down, trying to ge...