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Energy Analyzer
Get a Detailed Look at How Your Home is Using Energy
The Energy Analyzer Tool
With the Energy Analyzer tool, you can get daily and monthly details on your energy use. Understanding how your home uses energy can help you recognize season changes, compare your appliances and their usage, and make informed choices about low to no-cost ways to save.
Your Energy Analyzer
What You Can Do
Track energy use and recognize trends and changes in your bill.
With the Energy Analyzer, you can:
- View easy-to-read charts showing energy use over time
- See an estimated breakdown of how energy is used in your home
- Compare month-to-month energy use
- Review insights that help you better understand usage patterns
Bill Itemization
Scan your appliances and their energy costs along with a comparison from the previous month.
For the most accurate view, complete your home profile.
Daily Energy Costs – Usage History
View your monthly bill amount and see how it developed alongside the weather.
Monthly Bill Comparison – Bill Analysis
Compare your current bill to previous month's bill.
By changing the data range, you can also compare it to other months.
Tips to Help You Save - Energy Tips
Take a look at a variety of ways to cut back on the energy use around your home.
How it Works
1. Sign in to your account.
2. Click the Energy Analyzer promotion link.
3. Explore your energy use and savings tips at your own pace.
Frequently Asked Questions
The Energy Analyzer is an online tool available to residential customers that provides insight into how energy is used in your home. It shows usage trends over time and offers insights based on your energy use. A smart meter is required.
No. The Energy Analyzer is available automatically when you log in to your Dominion Energy South Carolina online account. A smart meter is required.
The Energy Analyzer provides estimates based on your account information and typical household energy use patterns. While it may not reflect exact appliance usage, it is designed to help you understand overall energy use trends.
Energy use information is updated regularly based on meter data available for your account.
The Energy Analyzer shows estimated energy usage trends, while your bill reflects metered usage and billing periods. Differences can occur due to timing, weather, or how energy use is estimated.
After a minimum of six months, we itemize your usage into 12 major appliance categories. You can track the usage of every single category over the course of the year and see how they change based on season, weather and your behavior. We display categories that consume a large amount of electricity, like Always On (baseload), Heating, Cooling and Pool Pump, based on the usage from your meter. We then take this usage to infer and estimate how much your other appliance categories, like laundry, cooking, lighting and entertainment, are consuming. Thus, through a combination of your actual usage and our rule-based model, we can compose a holistic picture of your total energy consumption.
Always On
Always On includes “plugged-in” devices such as personal computers, monitors, printers, stereos, and televisions that consume energy even when they're turned off.
Cooking
Cooking and food preparation appliances that consume significant electricity can be found in this category, including oven, stove, toaster, and toaster oven.
Cleaning and Laundry
Laundry consists of “wet washing” electric appliances, such as dishwasher, washing machine, and dryer.
Cooling
This includes common cooling appliances such as central air conditioners, room air conditioners, heat pumps, “swamp” coolers, and mini-split air conditioners.
Electric Vehicle
This category includes the aggregate usage of all Electric Vehicles at the location.
Electric Water Heating
Water Heating includes all whole-home water heaters (tanked, tankless, and heat pumps) as well as specific-use water heaters (e.g. electric showers).
Entertainment
Entertainment is comprised of two main appliance types: consumer electronics (TV, DVR, game console, stereo) and home computing (desktop, monitor, printer, modem).
Lighting
This includes all lights in the home, from efficient LED bulbs to inefficient halogen bulbs, and everything in between.
Other
These are appliances that are too small or infrequently used to be categorized separately. This includes mobile phones, vacuum cleaners, fans, hair dryers, and curling irons.
Pool Pump
Pool pumps have motors that keep your pool water filtered and clean year-round.
Refrigeration
Refrigeration includes the aggregate usage of refrigerators and freezers in the home.
Space Heating
Electric space heating includes many different types of heaters: radiant, convection, fan, storage, underfloor, heat pumps, and the electric fan component of gas heating.