Help with working out my KWH consumption plz

I_heart_bargains

Hi all,

Apologies if this seems like a silly question but I wonder if someone could help me with working out my annual gas & elec consumption plz?

We moved in on the 1st Dec and after comparing the first meter reading from the 1st Dec to the most recent one 19days later, there is a difference of 58 gas and 81 electric units, which is how much weve used in the 19days.

I thought that I could simply divide these unit amounts by 19 (days) and then multiply by 365 (days) to give me a rough annual unit consumption (although im aware we wont use as much in the summer etc) but the totals only come to 1556 elec and 1114 gas if I do this which seems very low (even tho we are very much into energy saving) and I am unsure if these totals are classed as KWH and are the amounts I need to enter in the comparison websites box where they ask for your 'annual KWH consumption' for each energy. I realise that i'm probably being silly and doing it wrong

I'm desperate to get an understanding of this and switch from the British Gas standard tariff that weve been lumbered with since moving in, so any help at all would be so so sooo much appreciated. I did try searching the forums but couldnt quite find what I was after, and if we do appear to be low usage users, I was hoping to switch the gas to Ebico and elec to Southern Elec.

Thanks in advance everyone & Happy Chrismas

espresso

An electric meter does records units in kWh however a gas meter records in either hundreds of cubic feet or cubic meters.
An imperial unit (100 cu FT) is in the region of 32kWh and a metric unit (1 cu M) is approximately 11kWh.

I_heart_bargains

Ohh that makes so much more sense! Thanks very much for taking the time to reply :beer: