{"id":5610,"date":"2014-01-05T08:26:01","date_gmt":"2014-01-05T14:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5610"},"modified":"2014-01-05T08:26:01","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T14:26:01","slug":"home-electricity-use-in-us-falling-to-2001-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5610","title":{"rendered":"Home electricity use in US falling to 2001 levels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.com\/html\/personaltechnology\/2022561696_apxfallingelectricityuse.html\">Jonathan Fahey<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The average amount of electricity consumed in U.S. homes has fallen to levels last seen more than a decade ago, back when the smartest device in people&#8217;s pockets was a Palm pilot and anyone talking about a tablet was probably an archaeologist or a preacher.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;Because of more energy-efficient housing, appliances and gadgets, power usage is on track to decline in 2013 for the third year in a row, to 10,819 kilowatt-hours per household, according to the Energy Information Administration.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;That&#8217;s the lowest level since 2001, when households averaged 10,535 kwh. And the drop has occurred even though our lives are more electrified.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;Here&#8217;s a look at what has changed since the last time consumption was so low.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Fahey: The average amount of electricity consumed in U.S. homes has fallen to levels last seen more than a decade ago, back when the smartest device in people&#8217;s pockets was a Palm pilot and anyone talking about a tablet was probably an archaeologist or a preacher.&nbsp;&nbsp;Because of more energy-efficient housing, appliances and gadgets, power [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5610"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5611,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5610\/revisions\/5611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}