£170 electric bill for 1 month usage?!! - HELP!

DotNetter

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Wayne

savemoney

How many kWh a day do you use? Just a thought I live in a 3 bedroom semi, electric/gas

We use 16 Kwh per day with large lcd tv on most of the nights with pvr (not sky), and 3 computers on and 2 small tv's with pvrs on most evenings when they get in from college, this doesn't change much all year around, only thing is use less lighting as days get longer

LindaMary

Plasma TV's just eat electric, just feel the heat coming off it! I presume you have measured what it uses whilst it is switched on?

DotNetter

savemoney wrote: »

How many kWh a day do you use? Just a thought I live in a 3 bedroom semi, electric/gas

We use 16 Kwh per day with large lcd tv on most of the night, and 3 computers and 2 small tv with pvrs on most evenings whne they get in from college, this doesn't change much all year around

I will have to check when I get home but I think we use in excess of 20 Kwh per day

Monday to friday we have on: 1 plasma tv, 1 computer on constantly (media server), laptop used for an hour each night by wife for facebook and emails, wii on for a couple of hours each night by kids or me and the wife.

Weekend: tv all day and evening with small lcd upstairs used for maybe a couple of hours, wii for a few hours again and laptop again.

washing machine is used every other day I would guess.

we don't have gas so we do have an electric cooker...but again, so do our friends who pay approx £180 a month (they live in the same village where we have no gas).

Regards,


Wayne

DotNetter

LindaMary wrote: »

Plasma TV's just eat electric, just feel the heat coming off it! I presume you have measured what it uses whilst it is switched on?

I plan to do this tonight. I shall turn off everything and then put each piece of kit back on to see what is meassured on the Energy Monitor.

savemoney

The laptop wont use much power. Pc media server will probably uses around 200w an hour, I run a server at home although I cut down using it much now

wii uses very little power

We run two freezers at home on in integral garage along with my server

I say plasma uses around 300-400w an hour at a guess

DotNetter wrote: »

I will have to check when I get home but I think we use in excess of 20 Kwh per day

Monday to friday we have on: 1 plasma tv, 1 computer on constantly (media server), laptop used for an hour each night by wife for facebook and emails, wii on for a couple of hours each night by kids or me and the wife.

Weekend: tv all day and evening with small lcd upstairs used for maybe a couple of hours, wii for a few hours again and laptop again.

washing machine is used every other day I would guess.

we don't have gas so we do have an electric cooker...but again, so do our friends who pay approx £180 a month (they live in the same village where we have no gas).

Regards,


Wayne

DotNetter

savemoney wrote: »

The laptop wont use much power. Pc media server will probably uses around 200w an hour, I run a server at home although I cut down using it much now

wii uses very little power

We run two freezers at home on in integral garage along with my server

I say plasma uses around 300-400w an hour at a guess

I'd agree having done some quick research on the web...so, if i'm correct

400w = 0.4Kwh

0.4Kwh x 5hours per day = 2Kwh per day

That's a lot of power being used but If we assume the same usage on a CRT that uses about half the power that's still only 1 Kwh more that I'm using in a day which doesn't really go far enough to explain the huge difference in elecricity usage.

...this all assume my sums are correct above of course!

Cheers,


Wayne

DotNetter

savemoney wrote: »

The laptop wont use much power. Pc media server will probably uses around 200w an hour, I run a server at home although I cut down using it much now

wii uses very little power

We run two freezers at home on in integral garage along with my server

I say plasma uses around 300-400w an hour at a guess

FYI the media server is a Mac Mini rather than a tower unit with lots of CPU fans so should be very little power usage (I don't think they even have fans!)

Cardew

The average house, even with gas for heating, spends about £1200 a year on gas and electricity; electricity is much more expensive for heating/hot water.

So if you 'only' use £100 a month average in an all electric house, you are doing extremely well - especially as the BG fixed to 2011 is one of the most expensive around.

Incidentally Plasma TVs - especially the older ones - use 3 or 4 times as much power as CRT TV.

DotNetter

Cardew wrote: »

The average house, even with gas for heating, spends about £1200 a year on gas and electricity; electricity is much more expensive for heating/hot water.

So if you 'only' use £100 a month average in an all electric house, you are doing extremely well - especially as the BG fixed to 2011 is one of the most expensive around.

Incidentally Plasma TVs - especially the older ones - use 3 or 4 times as much power as CRT TV.

BG Fixed 2011 is expensive? I put my details into a comparison site only a couple of months ago and it came back as being pretty good if not equal to the others that were returned in the results?

Can you recommend any other suppliers/tariffs that might be better then?

Regards,


Wayne