Your Home Energy Report
Your Home Energy Report
A Home Energy Report is a personalized report showing your home's energy performance and ways to save. These periodic updates can help you better understand how your household uses electricity, as well as highlight your energy and money savings potential.
For more information about these reports, please scroll down or contact us at 1-800-632-6605.
Comparison to
Similar Homes
Learn how your electricity use compares to homes of similar type and size in your county.
Breakdown of Your Electricity Use
Learn how much of your electricity use goes towards major appliances. The calculation is based on a number of factors, including the changes in your home's energy consumption as the outside temperature changes. The estimates are typically within 10 percent of the actual use.
Savings Tips
Act now to save, based on personalized tips just for you.
Frequently Asked Questions
About Your Home Energy Update
- Program Overview / Why am I getting this report?
- Why / How was I selected to be part of this program?
- How can my (friend, relative, etc.) sign up to receive a report?
- How can I stop receiving these reports?
- How many reports will I receive? / When will I get my next report?
- Is my information kept confidential?
- Savings Tips / Where can I find additional savings tips?
- I am being compared to the wrong home type or size. How can I update my home profile?
- Why is there such a large difference in the amount of electricity people are using?
About Your Household Comparison Charts
Program FAQ
Program Overview / Why am I getting this report?
Idaho Power is committed to providing information and programs to encourage wise energy use. The report you received is part of an initiative to test whether a personalized report, separate from your power bill, will be useful and informative in helping you manage your electricity use. Each report should help you better understand your energy use and discover opportunities to save.
At the end of a year, you will be asked to participate in a follow-up survey to provide feedback about the value of the reports.
Why / How was I selected to be part of this program?
You were selected to receive reports based on historical energy use and energy-savings potential.
How can my (friend, relative, etc.) sign up to receive a report?
Unfortunately, at this time all of our program participants have been selected. If Idaho Power expands the program in the future, your friend/relative etc., may be selected at that time.
How can I stop receiving these reports?
Call 1-800-632-6605 and ask to stop receiving reports.
How many reports will I receive? / When will I get my next report?
Customers selected to participate in this program will receive reports every other month of the first year and quarterly thereafter.
Is my information kept confidential?
Yes, in accordance with our Privacy Policy, which you may view at idahopower.com.
Your personal energy usage data is only presented in the report that is sent to you, so only you can see it. The homes used in the benchmark have been anonymized and grouped in order to maintain your home's privacy and that of the other participants.
Savings Tips / Where can I find additional savings tips?
The savings tips in this section were selected specifically for you based on their potential to help you save on your electricity bill.
The estimated annual savings are based on your electricity consumption, as well as the characteristics of your home.
You can find more suggestions by visiting idahopower.com/tips. For more personalized tips, log into My Account at idahopower.com and click on 'Savings Center'.
I am being compared to the wrong home type or size. How can I update my home profile?
The information used to produce the report was gathered through public sources and is sometimes out of date, incorrect or incomplete.
To get more accurate reports in the future, update the information about your home by calling 1-800-632-6605, or log in to My Account at idahopower.com and click on the Savings Center to update your home profile details.
Why is there such a large difference in the amount of electricity people are using?
A number of factors contribute to the electricity use in a home:
- Home type (manufactured homes use less than single family detached homes, on average)
- Home size (smaller homes typically use less than larger homes)
- How the home is heated (e.g., whether the home has multiple heating systems, such as a natural gas furnace and electric heaters)
- Insulation, window, and draft-proofing quality
- Whether the home has an electric or natural gas water heating system
- Thermostat settings
- Occupancy (number of people in the home and the number of hours spent at home)
- Number, age and use of appliances.
As an example, two structurally identical homes (built at the same time by the same builders to the same configuration and specifications) can have a 3x difference in energy consumption based on some of the factors outlined above (e.g. thermostat settings, occupancy, appliance use, etc.).
Comparison Chart FAQ
Your electricity use compared to homes like yours
Your home's energy use is compared to more than 100 other homes in your county that have similar characteristics. These characteristics include home type (e.g., manufactured home, single family dwelling), primary heat source and home size, if available.
- Average Home: The bar shown is an average of more than 100 homes similar to yours in your county; with the same home type as yours (e.g., manufactured home, single family dwelling); and that are of a similar floor size and primary space heating type based on available data.
- Efficient Home: The bar shown is the top quartile (25%) of all the homes used to calculate the 'Average Home' benchmark, i.e. the quartile of homes like yours that use the least electricity.
The number of residents in a home, the behavior of these residents and the existence of supplemental heat sources (e.g. electric heaters or wood fireplaces) can have a large effect on energy consumption.
Your electricity use breakdown
The breakdown of your electricity use is based on a number of factors, including the changes in your home's electricity consumption as the outside temperature changes.
The calculated estimates of your home's electricity used for loads, such as air conditioning, are intended to provide an approximation of your consumption, and are typically within 10 percent of the actual use.
- Air Conditioning: typically includes central and window air conditioning units, and other warm weather loads.
- Always On: typically includes DVRs on standby, chargers, computers, refrigerators, clocks, etc.
- Appliances & Lights: typically includes clothes washers, dryers, dishwashers, stoves, water heaters, etc.
- Electric Heating: typically includes baseboard heaters, electric furnaces, etc.
The accuracy of these calculated estimates could be impacted if your home has extended periods of occupancy change, has large seasonal loads, has seen significant equipment changes (e.g., replacing an electric water heater with a natural gas water heater) or has uncommon loads.
Changes in your consumption may be due to your efforts to lower costs, or it may be due to changes in your environment or household characteristics, such as colder or warmer weather, or a change in the number of household occupants, compared to the same time last year.