I live in a home with several other people (7 in fact) they range from a precocious 7 year old to a retired/disabled grandfather.   We live in a 3 story attached home in a small town that runs its own electric service.  Unfortunatly our rate just went up 10%.  Now if you had a bill of $10 it would be one thing but ours is a bit more. However for us as energy hogs we’re a bit more than that.  What we want to do is still live nicely but reduce our energy costs as they price will never really go down but we can curb our usage.