Abstract: Example methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture (e.g., physical storage media) to perform real-time cost management for utilities are disclosed. Disclosed example methods for real-time utility cost management include displaying, on a display associated with an appliance, utility pricing data received via a network. Such disclosed example methods also include, after displaying the utility pricing data, determining, based on a first input received via a user interface associated with the appliance, whether remote control of the appliance is permitted. Such disclosed example methods further include, in response to determining that remote control of the appliance is permitted, delaying activation of an operation of the appliance until receipt of a first command via the network.