Good Electric Information but needs to do more – DTE Insight Review

Thank you for showing us our real time electric usage and letting us know how it is trending and comparing to last month and last year. The new app is now as good as the old app with a couple more features and it is great to see you responding to our App Reviews. Now that you are charging a monthly fee, I would like to see more advanced features, like: 1. Letting us send notifications to the iPhone lock screen if a big change in usage just occurred or we are trending to go over our goal for the day so we can take action before we blow our budget. Only putting notification badges in your app does not help us understand what is causing our usage to change. By letting us turn it on and off, it will give us a chance to learn what the real-time change was when we turn on different things. This would be annoying if it was left on all the time but would be great if it told us that energy usage just jumped 400 watts when we just turned on the TV or dropped 200 watts when we turned off the stove. Or send us a notification when our power usage goes to zero and we know that a power outage has occurred when we are away from home. 2. I like that you are able to show what electricity the fridge is using, but I as a lot of folks have more than one fridge. How do I know which fridge is being shown and can you show the other fridge? 3. Can you build in Siri shortcuts support so I can ask Siri how my electric usage is doing or trending or if I have any new notifications. 4. More comparisons to houses of our own square footage versus just average usage of all homes. 5. Support for dark mode. Thanks again for providing this app and service.
Review by TechMaster2000 on DTE Insight.