Video TRANSCRIPTS – 2/2/2017 ComEd animated logo Music track up full GFX Slate The POWER of a Smart Meter Connected Device in your home RONNEY HUNTER So the big value proposition for me for getting the smart meter connected device was really to get more control over my energy usage. BOB FAIRBAIM What it really does for you is it lets you understand how you’re using electricity, where you’re using electricity and how you can save money and how you can manage the energy use in your own home really very simply. ED KEATING The connected device does let me have an influence on the environment. It allows me to monitor my energy usage and it also gives me a rough idea of what my bill might be so I’m not surprised. BOB FAIRBAIM So, my house is a typical 2400 square foot, two-story suburban home. We use a significant amount of computing equipment. Saving the environment, saving energy, all of those are important to me. And this is giving me the set of tools to manage that, so I now know what my impact is, what my footprint is. RONNEY HUNTER My children have iPads and iPhones and you name it, since I work in IT, there’s a lot of stuff going on. The online registration process at comed.com to sign up for the smart meter connected device is super quick. It only took me about two minutes and believe I heard back from someone in about a day or two. ED KEATING My smart device has several screens that I use to monitor energy usage. One is the real time reading, the other one is the history of yesterday versus today. BOB FAIRBAIM So it gives me a tool that I’ve never had before. It lets us know exactly what’s going on in the house…so I can see what the power usage of the home has been over time and what is it at instantaneously so I know what we’re doing at the house and can control our usage and save money. RONNEY HUNTER After getting the device, we were able to determine like, oh, the light bulbs that the developer put in our home were like 100-watt light bulbs. There were no energy efficient light bulbs in the home, so that led us down several paths to try to make our home more energy efficient. ED KEATING It’ll show you what your current usage is and if you happen to notice on in the amber region, maybe I left those lights on downstairs. I should turn them off or I have some other equipment that’s on that maybe doesn’t need to be on. RONNEY HUNTER I’ve been able to take advantage of using the data that my smart meter connected device has provided and I can see what my energy usage is, what the projected energy usage is, which kind of helps scale down how much energy we’re using or try to change our behaviors to help things balance out… BOB FAIRBAIM So you get a good measurement, you see what’s going on and you see the effect of new appliance purchases. You see the effect of looking around and turning off lights, unplugging stuff that’s drawing power all the time. You see that effect and I feel good about that. RONNEY HUNTER I would actually really recommend other homeowners to get the smart meter connected device it’s a quite useful tool in your arsenal to help manage your energy usage…being able to get real time stats will definitely help you see if there’s ways you can change things to help the environment. BOB FAIRBAIM It’s enlightened us. It lets us understand what our electric usage is, how much power we’re using at this moment, how much power we’ve used over time and make appropriate decisions on our energy use. ComEd Powering Lives GFX Copyright 2017 CED_5708 ComEd SMCD Customers Interviews Page 1 1