Shiny Shiny goes green and takes the energy monitoring challenge : Shiny Shiny

Shiny Shiny, Hippyshopper and Tech Digest are going green for the week, courtesy of Ethical Superstore. Never one's to back away from a challenge, we've accepted Hippyshopper's energy monitoring quest. This pretty much involves finding out whether we live in green friendly households that don't guzzle energy like it's going out of fashion, or whether our houses of residence are more the guzzling kind that appear not to give a hoot about the environment and would much prefer to make use of every electrical outlet around the house/flat.

Yes, that's right, four enthusiastic energy monitors - Me, Tech Digest's Duncan, Hippyshopper's Abi and Katie - will be finding out the horrible truth about our daily energy consuming habits. We've each been equipped with energy monitors to find out just how greedy or green our households really are.

See after the jump to find out who's testing what.

I've been given the OWL wireless energy monitor (£29.95) to measure my consumption habits. Considering my laptop's on practically 24/7 (sorry Abi), alongside the lappy speakers and the TV which *must* be on at all times (even if it's just on mute), I'm expecting to see some quite frankly, shocking results... and that's just my room. It sounds easy enough to set up - clip on to my electricity meter cabling "for simple installation".

Next up is editorial director Katie, who'll be testing the Efergy (£39.95). The Efergy is one of the newer models to hit the market. Katie might fare well, however her main concern is her energy consuming husband who works from home during the day.

Duncan' giving the Eco-Eye Elite a go (£49.99). And as a self confessed eco-warrior, the results of his challenge will prove very interesting indeed. Will he have to lose his eco-warrior status or hold his head high and proud.

Finally, the brains behind the operation Abi (and the most eco friendly of the bunch), will be testing her energy consuming levels with the Wattson (£99.95). She''s just moved house and has absolutely no idea how much power her new, bigger house devours on a daily basis, so her results will be very interesting indeed.