A free ten-minute tour from En Dash

Where does the money in your energy bill actually go?

Not to the phone charger. Almost all of it goes to making heat or moving heat. Rates are climbing about 5% a year, so it’s worth knowing which few things matter and which don’t. This tour shows you, using your home, not an average one.

Start the tourJust show me what things cost

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A typical home like yours
$191/mo on energy
  • Hot water$620/yr
  • Heating$518/yr
  • Cooling$324/yr

79% of that is heat. Tell us about your home in chapter one and this becomes yours.

One shower ≈ a year of phone charging
Heating water is heavy lifting. Charging a phone isn't. You'll never unplug a charger to save money again.
Heat is the whole game
Heating, cooling, hot water, the dryer, the oven. Everything else is a rounding error next to them.
Honest about what won't help
Some popular tips save less than a dollar a year. We say so, with the math, so you can spend your effort where it counts.
The tour

Eight short chapters. About ten minutes. Yours to keep.

  1. 1Your homeEight quick taps so every number after this is about your house, not an average one.1 min
  2. 2The faucet and the bucketWatts, kilowatt-hours, and the one equation behind every bill.1 min
  3. 3Where it goesA map of your home with the money drawn on it.1 min
  4. 4Which costs more?Ten quick duels that rebuild your intuition.2 min
  5. 5Phantom huntFind the things sipping power while “off.” Most aren't what you think.1 min
  6. 6True or mythEight things everyone's heard. Half are wrong.1 min
  7. 7Your planWhat would actually move your bill, ranked and priced. And what wouldn't.2 min
  8. 8ScorecardYour Energy IQ, your badges, and the three numbers worth remembering.1 min

Why En Dash made this

We spend our days helping teams see where their effort really goes so they can stop wasting it. An energy bill is the same problem at home: a single number hiding a dozen decisions, most of which don’t matter and a few of which matter a lot. This is our small, free contribution to making one more thing feel a little better.

Bills are also our day job. We rebuilt a federal invoice processing platform from the ground up — OCR to read the documents, automation for the half of them that were being keyed in by hand, and a system-of-record migration with no downtime — so the people doing the reading could stop fighting the software. Read that case study. If your organisation has billing data it cannot see into, that is the work we do for money.

— the En Dash team