How much electricity did you use yesterday?

Chrysalis

jimbo40 wrote: »

What with the TV on all day, and the lights.. and the oven, 3 dishwasher runs, managed to clock up an impressive 40 kwh for the day ! Not bad considering my average is around the 16 mark. Any other electricity monitors suffering from a hangover this morning?

average is 9, during the cold december tho I have had a few days at around the 12-13 mark.

16 average and 40 in a day sounds insane I would go bankrupt paying the bill. :eek:

Sandrock

I have built a spreadsheet to deal with our electricity and gas usage.

So far, it is reporting that we use an average of 4.18 kwh of electricity and 25.07 kwh of gas per day since we moved in in August, which works out as a combined payment of £38.42, slightly over what we currently pay.

The winter average is about 5.30 kwh of electricity and 42.0 kwh of gas.

allan673

elec last 7 days is 51 kwh. 3 bed detatched.

Smiley_Mum

We are using about £7 a day at the moment, need the heaters on in the bedrooms otherwise they are freezing. We have small panel heaters in the bedroom 750 watt ones and a 3kw old style storage heater in the hallway which is on all the time and has no controls whatsoever. Does that type of heater just take heat in so many hours per day or does it take heat in all the time. I'm on a THTC tariff with Scottish Hydro. I'm not sure whether I would be better to have the heaters on in the bedrooms for longer and putting off the heater in the hallway.

markharding557

moonrakerz wrote: »

Sorry, but that is just not a valid statement - if you own a dishwasher they are a much more power efficient way of doing the washing up - and they make a better job of it !

There are plenty of independent studies that you can find on the web that support this.

My washing up bowl does not use electric,it uses hot water heated from a gas boiler and you will find this uses far less energy than a dishwasher the rating of which is like a washer or tumble dryer.
can you privide a link which shows manual dish washing is as energy intensive as an electric dishwasher?

Sandrock

Smiley_Mum wrote: »

We are using about £7 a day at the moment, need the heaters on in the bedrooms otherwise they are freezing. We have small panel heaters in the bedroom 750 watt ones and a 3kw old style storage heater in the hallway which is on all the time and has no controls whatsoever. Does that type of heater just take heat in so many hours per day or does it take heat in all the time. I'm on a THTC tariff with Scottish Hydro. I'm not sure whether I would be better to have the heaters on in the bedrooms for longer and putting off the heater in the hallway.

I would keep the bedroom heaters on, and perhaps invest in another panel heater or low-power convector heater (about £20 for the latter) to replace the 3kw heater in the hall. The 3kw heater will cost about 27p an hour (ish) to run, compared to the bedroom heaters about 7p an hour each.

cajef

markharding557 wrote: »

can you privide a link which shows manual dish washing is as energy intensive as an electric dishwasher?

http://www.fridayteam.co.uk/articles/2006/01/12/hand-washing-vs-dishwashers/

Plushchris

I'de also like to see a link that says manual dishwashing isnt as effective as evertime I get stuff out the dishwasher at work there is always a few items that have gunk stuck to them.

Also dishwashers ruin glasses.

Cardew

Plushchris wrote: »

I'de also like to see a link that says manual dishwashing isnt as effective as evertime I get stuff out the dishwasher at work there is always a few items that have gunk stuck to them.

Also dishwashers ruin glasses.

PC,

There are loads of websites like this:

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/01/built-in-dishwasher-vs-hand-washing-which-greener.php

I know what you mean about glasses. Most come out of the dishwasher sparkling and stay that way even after years of use. However I have had some that have gone cloudy.

Obviously you never never put good crystal in a dishwasher.