Whats the UK average kWh usage per year

ChaosUk

Does anyone know there kWh usage per year and what a typical average is, this is just for a house with electricity and no gas.

oxfordmark

I would like to know this too.. i want to compare what we use to others...

filmnoir

There is a

*edit whoops why didnt my comments come out?*

cowbutt

http://www.carbonindependent.org/sources_home_energy.htm says 4800 kWh of electricity and 16000 kWh of gas for an average household. It has other figures for households that are larger and smaller than average.

filmnoir

There is an industry Profile Class Average. This is a researched avereage based on research of consumption on a number of premises (usually 3000) in each profile class two years ago. This is done via recording consumption over the year, then interpreting and averaging all the data to provide an average for each profile class. (This takes a year)

http://www.elexon.co.uk/marketdata/mdd/mddtable.aspx?tbl=GSP%20Group%20Profile%20Class%20Average%20EAC

You need to find out your GSP ID (Region) Profile Class & Standard Settlement Configuration. These can be found on your invoices usually.

littletommytucker

Gas 20500 Kwh
Electricity 3300 Kwh

Hope this helps

Stoday

You'll have a lot of fun digging the information out of Elexon's site.

I've done it for:

Profile Class 1 (domestic unrestricted) the annual average is 4079kWh;
Profile Class 2a (Economy 7 base) 4768kWh/year [includes some night rate kWh];
Profile Class 2b (Economy 7 switched) 1645kWh/year

:doh:

This is consistent with Cowbutt's statistic of 4800kWh/year because his average household use is a weighted average of PC1 and PC2.

KimYeovil

littletommytucker wrote: »

Gas 20500 Kwh
Electricity 3300 Kwh

Hope this helps

:eek: Crivens. I know BG gets some stick but if the average home WITH NO GAS SUPPLY (see OP) gets charged 20,500 phantom units by British Gas then I take it all back, 1CarmineStocky. Go get 'em. Thieving crooks.

bryanb

https://www.imeasure.org is a university run site that compares usage for different house types and family size, it tells you your weekly/monthly carbon emissions, spend on gas and elec, if you enter meter readings weekly. No cost just register.

Stoday

cowbutt wrote: »

http://www.carbonindependent.org/sources_home_energy.htm says 4800 kWh of electricity and 16000 kWh of gas for an average household.

Actually, it does not. It's gas for an average household that has a supply of gas.

The electricity statistic is also compromised because it's a mixture of households that use electricity for heating and those that don't. Hence it's not representative of either.

If you have a gas supply, then you'd expect to buy (on average) 16000kWh of gas plus less than 4800kWh of electricity.

If you use electricity for heating and have no gas, you'd expect to buy much more than 4800kWh of electricity.

So you see that even though these statistics have the authority of the government's National Statistics organisation, they don't really answer the OP's question.

mech_2

I'd guess about 15000-16000kWh.