KWH Cost For Gas

kgw1009

Hi All

Just wondered what everyone was paying per hour for Gas?

I have a 4 bed detatched and use NPower. I use gas to cook and heat the house and pay a single tier with standing charge.

I have a 65% Efficient Boiler with no Therm Rad valves.

The cost per KWH including the above is 48p:

96p per hour as I use 2 KWH each hour!!!

How does that compare with the rest of you?

savemoney

I posted mine in this thread

Which is cheapest per unit for average users?

surely you dont pay 96p per KWh


Mine is with British Gas


1st rate pay 5.891p first 228kWh
2nd rate 5.891p next 160 kWh
3rd rate 3.430p third 658.72 kWh (thats what it says on bill go figure)

penrhyn

Typical cost of a Kilowatt Hour gas is around 4.8 pence.

Something wrong with your assumptions or methodology.

The efficiency of your CH system is irrelevant, unless you are saying that to get a kwh worth of heat into your house you have to burn 2 kwhs worth of gas.

Edited @ 11.25 am.

kgw1009

No the 96p is a cost per hour, I use 2 KWH per hour

Sorry for being dumb!

kgw1009

penrhyn wrote: »

Typical cost of a Kilowatt Hour gas is around 48pence.

Something wrong with your assumptions or methodology.

Yes I meant I use 2 per hour so the 96p is the cost per hour...that was what I was asking to compare really.

Seems the 48p I pay is about average.

Do people use about 2 per hour?

penrhyn

Too many variables, the weather probably being the main single factor.

Last week I used 236 Kwh of Gas, the week before it was only 180.

macman

A kWh of gas is around 3.5p. if you burn 2kWh it will cost you around 7p.
Where do you get 48p from?

savemoney

Last month I consumed 1071kWh from 25/10 to 25/11 previously year I used 1801kWh milder Autumn and use log burner far more now than I did last year

penrhyn

Sorry brain dead today, you are right of course.

The price I was trying to post was 4.8 pence which is the current Ebico price.

My excuse is I was thinking about Harry Morgan having passed away and my fondness for his character in M*A*S*H.

dogshome

Hmmm - 4 bed house with gas from Ebico ?

Ebico are good news for very low users because they don't apply any standing charges, but their Kwh price is high and are bad news for higher users - Perhaps you could post your annual Gas Kwh consumption

macman

Agree You might be saving less than £100 in standing charges, but on an average UK consumption of around 17,500kWh you'd be paying maybe £200 more on the kWh rate.