Free electricity meter

With my latest (still huge) bill last week my electricity supplier (e.on) offered an energy saver deal which fixed my electricity costs until 2010 and gave me a free electricity meter.  I’m not actually that impressed by the deal.  I know that I should have signed up to one of these 6 months ago if I wanted to get cheaper prices but hey ho I was just being optimistic.  But what really clinched it for me was the free meter.

Now I wanted this because i can use it to test with www.tryingtobegreen.com but I wonder how many people now are getting these free meters.  It means that a lot more people out there are taking an interest in their energy use.  I think that most of them, like me, resented spending £40+ on a gadgety thing.  Well making a sweeping generalisation I’d say that men like gadgets but are not so interested in tracking their electricity and saving money and women might be trying to cut costs but would seem stupid to waste £40 on a gadget like that.  So I wonder if we’ll see a lot more of them in use now.  They do seem to be taking hold and most people I speak to have heard of them and a couple have bought them.

Mine has yet to arrive, so I must be patient.