How many units of Gas are you using daily?

TITEASCRAMP

Woby_Tide wrote: »

whats your annual kWh usage though, must be reasonably low. Ours is only low during summer, annual amount is 10,000 kWh hence the £35, annual bill about £400

Edit: going by your earlier figures of 12kWh ofr 4 summer months and 4 winter months at 41kWh, if you take the missing months, Aug-Nov even using your summer rate of 12kWh gives you an annual useage of 7,800kWh. Even the cheapest supplier has an annual bill for that rate of £294, at £20 per month DD you aren't even covering that bill, are you not under paying by some way on your bill? Even taking a midpoint figure on those other 4 months puts your bill at £350 ish, some £100 over your monthly DD over a year?

My earlier figures of 12 and 41 cant of been right. Sorry. Summer is about 4kwh and Winter is about 37kwh.

Annual is roughly 7300kwh. Ive just been back through my bills. I was paying £28 a month and ended up in credit by £103. They have now dropped it to £20. Over the year I have paid 2p, 3p and only on the last bill have I paid some 369kwh's at 5p.
After that price I also get dual fuel discount and direct debit discount.
So £20 is aboout right.
28 x 12 = 336 over paid by 103 = 233 / 12 = 19.42

chris_millars

Hi all,

Here's my gas usage. A lot better than last year!



Two bedroom, Victorian tenement flat with DG, GCH and gas for hot water

SwanJon

iamesbo wrote: »

It is relaively simple to calculate how much energy is released when a volume of gas is burned. It explains on your gas bill, or at least used to, how to do the calculation.
If the metre was calibrated to take into account this calcualtion millions of people would not have to go the trouble of needlessly repeating the lengthy calculationi.
Nobody want to know the volume of gas they have used, thats totally meaningles and useless information, so that is what the gas company show you!! B******ds!!

Ok,

how do you propose the meter 'knows' what the energy content of the gas is so it can do the calculation which you admit it relatively simple.
The energy content of the gas changes each day, and with where you are on the network.
Is your meter going to sample the gas, burn it in an enclosed and controlled space, measure the temperature difference after burning the gas before applying the calculation? Or are you going to have every meter in constant communication with a central point to receive the information before doing the calculation?
Either of these would be hideously complicated, and even more so about 100 years ago when gas was first metered, so to switch to your new system would involve changing all the gas meters and every suppliers billing system. None of this is cheap, and where do you think the money is going to come from?

basmic

My last average was 0.9 units/day (10.7 kWh/day).

derrick

The people on here who are only using less than 20 KWh of gas per DAY? must not be using any gas, except maybe the pilot light!

My meter, (imperial), uses ½ unit/therm, (measured on the meter), per HOUR if I have the CH on,this is 16 KWh per HOUR!

Calculation done by multiplying the unit/therm by 32, to give the KWh per unit/therm as measured by the gas meter!

Woodgnome_2

House - Gas Combi boiler.

From 8th July to 21 Oct (105 days) we used 22 units. Avg (0.305 units per day).

I work this out to be 9.64 Khw per day.

However over the last day we have used 2.8 units

I work this out to be 88 Khw per day and the heating hasn't been on that much (or so my wife tells me ) Arrgh.

Magentasue

The lowest I've got our average (hot water from combi and cooking) is 16kwh a day. Most days in the summer averaged out about 26kwh a day. I think this is reasonable for hot water and cooking for six of us. About £1 a day so I'm happy to pay that.

Last week, we averaged 56kwh a day with the heating being on. Have just read meter and in three cold days, we've used 134kwh a day. Oh dear. Time to keep checking the CH programmer - kids overriding my frugal settings.

WestonDave

Over the last 3 weeks we've averaged 21Kwh of Gas per day - during the summer it was roughly half that. That's for a 3 bed detached 1950's house with the heating on when the thermostat decides it needs it - in practice that has mainly mean a quick half hour in the morning to take the overnight chill off. The shower is electric but the kids have a shared bath everynight which is heated by the gas boiler. I should probably also say its a brand new system installed in June right down to new radiators and piperuns so it should be about as efficient as it can be. House is cavity wall insulated and 100mm loft insulated - will add more now they've removed the header tanks from the old heating system.

If you are interested in further comparisons have a look at imeasure.org.uk which is part of a research project into domestic energy use - its a bit rough around the edges but it does provide some interesting figures and lets you compare your use with other use - no personal interest just thought it might interest people on this thread.

bockster

WestonDave wrote: »

If you are interested in further comparisons have a look at imeasure.org.uk which is part of a research project into domestic energy use - its a bit rough around the edges but it does provide some interesting figures and lets you compare your use with other use - no personal interest just thought it might interest people on this thread.

yeah, just registered on here, we should form an mse carbon club:beer:

debasur

my bill can`t be right...
or at least- i can`t work it out.

Bill 16th July to 13th Oct .
Units 882
Total metric units used 901.96cu mtrs
Units converted to kilowatt hours 9796.28 kwh.

Bill is £303.66.
And thats with hardly any heating used,only hot water.
I`m sure ive got a leak at those prices :eek: