Whats the UK average kWh usage per year

1carminestocky

exil wrote: »

The point of a survey is that you do a random sample, you don't need to survey EVERYONE. As we can see from this thread, 20,000 kwh seems about right for an average household - and since most of it goes on heating the house rather than cooking or bathwater for individuals, the number of people in the house doesn't make a lot of difference.

Can we? Where, exactly?


Average consumption based on a 'survey' is similar to the oft-peddled theory about the rest of Europe paying more for their domestic fuel than we do by simply taking their Euro figure and converting it to pounds using the current exchange rate. It's basically a nonsense figure and has no basis in reality.

Fire_Fox

1carminestocky wrote: »

Can we? Where, exactly?


Average consumption based on a 'survey' is similar to the oft-peddled theory about the rest of Europe paying more for their domestic fuel than we do by simply taking their Euro figure and converting it to pounds using the current exchange rate. It's basically a nonsense figure and has no basis in reality.

A well designed and administered survey will provide highly accurate results. Inferring from responses given by a self-selected minority posting on a subject-specific message board is meaningless. :rolleyes:

savemoney

I posted the readings I take every month from the meter and put them in excel and then add 12 of the months figures. I pay around £24 a month. Haven't a clue what the measurement is on the meter as I can only just about read the numbers of the meter itself. I checked on my water company before posting as it says its meters are in cubic metres.


How to read your meter

We only require the black numbers from your meter, these represent the cubic meters you've used. Please ignore the red digits.
We only advise you to read internal meters and even then, only when it's safe to do so. Meters that are fit externally under manhole covers should not be lifted without the correct equipment so please give us a call if you need some help.
Listen to our audio guide for a step-by-step guide to reading your water meter

Cardew wrote: »

So a water bill of well over £2000?

119.6 cubic metres I hope!!

pirate66

Just found my meter start readings from when I changed supplier (jan 1st 2007)

So dividing by 25 and multiplying by 12 gave me:

10,500 KWh for gas and 3,670 KWh electric.

Gas only used for central heating from Oct - Feb, rest of year just heating water once a day.
Two of us in the 2 bed house but both at work during day.

Electric seems high but TV and PC (sometimes 2) on 8 hrs a weekday and a further 24hrs on a weekend, plus we do like our hot drinks.

1carminestocky

Fire_Fox wrote: »

A well designed and administered survey will provide highly accurate results. Inferring from responses given by a self-selected minority posting on a subject-specific message board is meaningless. :rolleyes:

Sorry to labour the point, but how do you know this to be fact if the WHOLE population hasn't been surveyed in respect of their annual consumption and an ACCURATE average consumption figure has never been established on which to make a comparison?

Cardew

From 25/01/08 - 25/01/09

Water 1196 cubic metres

savemoney wrote: »

I posted the readings I take every month from the meter and put them in excel and then add 12 of the months figures. I pay around £24 a month. Haven't a clue what the measurement is on the meter as I can only just about read the numbers of the meter itself. I checked on my water company before posting as it says its meters are in cubic metres.


How to read your meter

We only require the black numbers from your meter, these represent the cubic meters you've used. Please ignore the red digits.
We only advise you to read internal meters and even then, only when it's safe to do so. Meters that are fit externally under manhole covers should not be lifted without the correct equipment so please give us a call if you need some help.
Listen to our audio guide for a step-by-step guide to reading your water meter

Water/sewerage costs are not much less than £2 for a cubic metre.

I was merely making the point that you will not have used 1196 cubic metres and pay £24 a month!

HarryH_3

ChaosUk wrote: »

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.

ther have been alot of responses to this. if you want the actual data then go to here

http://www.berr.gov.uk/whatwedo/energy/statistics/source/total/page18424.html

download aggregate energy balances

this is the total of each fuel used in the UK last year in the domestic sector

then divide by the number of houses.

or go to http://www.imeasure.org.uk/

where they have UK averages

Harry

5pencefamily

I'm glad I found this thread, I'm having some trouble with Eon, they are claiming that my flat which has been empty since February (I know it is, it's on the market for sale) has used £519 worth of Electricity between Feb and now, in fact 2458 kw since September alone, they couldn't understand why I was upset and are insisting I pay the bill, which I wont but at least I know how obserd their figures are.
How can an empty property use electricity?

Dave_save

HarryH wrote: »

or go to http://www.imeasure.org.uk/

where they have UK averages

Harry

Just a word of warning re i measure. You'll find there that the usage for most people is way below the average. i measure was set up as a way of measuring carbon emissions, and as most people on there seem to be in competition, there is a sort of incentive to keep your usage down. So i measure is not representative of the UK averages.

HappyMJ

Dave_save wrote: »

Just a word of warning re i measure. You'll find there that the usage for most people is way below the average. i measure was set up as a way of measuring carbon emissions, and as most people on there seem to be in competition, there is a sort of incentive to keep your usage down. So i measure is not representative of the UK averages.

The highest ranked members of the carbon clubs tend not to use any gas or electric at all for heating and instead use wood, coal or oil which isn't measured in imeasure. It does state what people use for central heating so it can be a guide. Single's and couple's tend to use a lot more co2 per person as well. So the larger families who can divide the heating amongst them tend to also be ranked much higher too.

I just use it for the charting and for the weekly cost of the gas and electric to estimate my bills.