whats ur average kwh usage for electric a day?

NittyGritty

my recent bill I received it states the following

Each day you use on average

46.00 kWh of electricity (last 36 days)

whats everyone else day useage roughly (electric) (for past 30 days)

matelodave

Sounds a lot to me. We are all electric (cooking, heating, lighting, washing etc) and average 22kwh a day over the year.

It goes down to 5-6 a day in the summer and has been up to 60 or more when it's been everso cold (-14 outside) in the winter. We are presently using about 25-30 a day.
We are at home all day and heat the house & water with electricity (with an air source heatpump). We also use the tumble dryer exclusively in the winter - no washing on the line between Oct and about May (it doesn't go out all that much in the summer either:()


Perhaps you should be reading your meter weekly and trying to reduce your consumption

NittyGritty

yeah sorry i forgot to mention the useage is for last 36 days only (I take reads every month), I didn't mean over the year, my fault sorry (slap on wrist). I,m guessing for this time of year (last 30 days or so) its about right?

matelodave

It's still a lot more than I'm using, the average for Sept was 14.7kwh a day, October was 29.1kwh a day and so far in Dec it's 29.8 as its so mild (last January was really cold - the worst we've had and we only managed an average of 48kwh a day.
It's a 1986 detached three bedroomed bungalow (140sq.m), out in the wild fenlands of Cambridgeshire. Its got cavity wall insulation, 15 year old double glazing and 300mm of loft insulation.

NittyGritty

hmm could be due to our storage heaters, we have 4 on since last month, no doubt thats big the chunk of the 46kwh, pc is left on most days, don't watch tele that much only from 5-6pm till 11-12am, washing is done once a day, etc. will wait and see till next months read and see what useage over the 30 days will be, get an idea
thanks for your reply anyway

tiger_eyes

I only take meter readings quarterly, but my usage for the last quarter has been 12 kWh a day, so 46 kWh a day sounds pretty high?

NittyGritty

tiger_eyes wrote: »

I only take meter readings quarterly, but my usage for the last quarter has been 12 kWh a day, so 46 kWh a day sounds pretty high?

is that your summer bill? if so then 12kwh would explain it, cant see 12kwh plauseable for winter surely? (again last 30 days useage) abviously everyone will be different and vary, depending on what they use. but for winter months I,m assuming the figures for most would be well above 30kwh for (last 30 days ish) at least maybe, unless I,m wrong

lstar337

NittyGritty wrote: »

hmm could be due to our storage heaters, we have 4 on since last month, no doubt thats big the chunk of the 46kwh

We also have 4 storage heaters, though two are on very low. 30+kWh/day is about right for us at the moment. So yeah, that'll be it.

NittyGritty wrote: »

but for winter months I,m assuming the figures for most would be well above 30kwh for (last 30 days ish) at least maybe, unless I,m wrong

With electric heating yes.

jungliemac

We range between 10 for a day with no washing machines or tumbler to about 17 with washing. That's at the moment. Small newish 3 bed semi. Gas Central heating.

NittyGritty

yeah had a feeling it be the heaters.

iris

We average about 9 per day. We live in a detached 3 bedroomed bungalow with cavity wall insulation, double glazing and loft insulation. We have oil central heating and cook with electric. We are at home 24/7 as we are retired. We have several laptops, one of which is on 24/7 for recording the weather. We also have an American style fridge freezer and a small chest freezer.


HTH