What's your consumption?

dannymccann

Havent checked the gas in a while but last quarter cost me £46 I think (Sep - Dec), electricity is pretty constant 6kwh a day, 3 bed semi 2 occupants

edit - just done a meter read, 13 Dec (572) - 3 Jan (633) = 333kwh / 21 days = 16kwh a day

Swipe

3 bed detached bungalow. All electric (heating + DHW). Heating is via 2 air source heat pumps and mutifuel stove. At work all day so heating switched off and off over night.

Summer/spring/autumn electricity average around 6kWh per day electric

Winter: £15 coal a month + free wood (stove only lit at weekends) and over this December I've just used 320 kWh electric, just over 10 units per day. 1st two weeks of December was very mild though.

I estimate in January (the long term forecast says bitterly cold all month) I'll use over 400kWh.

moonrakerz

renegade wrote: »

3 bedroomed insulated semi.
1 occupant.
2 rooms heating switched off- not used.
Heating on 6am- 8pm

Gas usage approx 10kw

Lecky approx 12 kw.

Sorry, but the gas figures are just totally unbelievable ! The figures equate to using less than 1kW per hour to heat the house - just impossible. (unless you are a polar bear or penguin)

Suggest you check what your meter is reading in (Imp or Metric), then convert it to kWh. 10 units ? = cu m ?? sounds more feasible........

I have been monitoring my gas useage fairly closely during this cold spell. On at 0700 off at 2245, usually on all day, occasionally turn C/H off and have gas fire in lounge on for a couple of hours.
3 bed detached, all rooms heated, inc conservatory; usually 20/21 in lounge evenings, 19/20 during day.
I am using 11 cu m a day, inc hot water; which is about 120kwh - TEN times the amount claimed above !

Dave_save

3 bed semi, 2 occupants and gas central heating (combi condensing boiler) on for approximately 10 hours a day:

Gas 65 to 70 kWh per day currently. Annual usage 10,000 kWh

Electric 10 to 11 kWh per day. Annual usage 5,000 kWh

notbritishgas

dannymccann wrote: »

Havent checked the gas in a while but last quarter cost me £46 I think (Sep - Dec), electricity is pretty constant 6kwh a day, 3 bed semi 2 occupants

edit - just done a meter read, 13 Dec (572) - 3 Jan (633) = 333kwh / 21 days = 16kwh a day

I think you have made a mistake, how do you get 61 gas units to equal 333kwh?

spinningsheep

I have been using approx £4 per day of late which we think equates to approx 25kwh per day of electric, which I honestly cannot see where its all going! We have a smart energy meter from BG and when we get up at about 8am, we see usage is approx 50p for the previous night, and the "background" consumption in the daytime in the unoccupied house is approx 4p an hour, yet by 7pm its up to about £3.20! One shower in an electric shower in the morning, which even at a high kw rating cant be using that much people on here have told me! The meter thing jumps to £1.80 an hour consumption when its on so does this mean at 0.16 per kwh, the shower is 10kw rated? I cannot see where the power can be going, the lights are all energy savers, there is one oil filled radiator on in my housemates room for about an hour in the evening before bed, but the usage is going mad well before this. Could it be my freezer? One possibility I didn't think of?

penrhyn

spinningsheep wrote: »

I have been using approx £4 per day of late which we think equates to approx 25kwh per day of electric, which I honestly cannot see where its all going! We have a smart energy meter from BG and when we get up at about 8am, we see usage is approx 50p for the previous night, and the "background" consumption in the daytime in the unoccupied house is approx 4p an hour, yet by 7pm its up to about £3.20! One shower in an electric shower in the morning, which even at a high kw rating cant be using that much people on here have told me! The meter thing jumps to £1.80 an hour consumption when its on so does this mean at 0.16 per kwh, the shower is 10kw rated? I cannot see where the power can be going, the lights are all energy savers, there is one oil filled radiator on in my housemates room for about an hour in the evening before bed, but the usage is going mad well before this. Could it be my freezer? One possibility I didn't think of?

Why don't you get it to read Kwh's you'll get a better idea rather than the cost display.
BTW They are not very accurate.

dannymccann

notbritishgas wrote: »

I think you have made a mistake, how do you get 61 gas units to equal 333kwh?

I may have read the British Gas website thingy wrong:

penrhyn

From your table 61 gas units = 678 Kwh


Corrected, must take more water with the scotch!

penrhyn

From your table 61 gas units = 633 Kwh

Remember your meter readings are cumulative so you subtract the previous from the current reading. However the consumption figure represents the amount consumed in the given time period.