Energy consumption whilst on holiday

st999

When I go on holiday my electricity usage is about 3 kWh a day.

That is a freezer and a separate fridge, SKY box which occasionally records programmes, a clock radio, my cooker clock and my Virgin router/modem

Normal electricity usage is about 10 kWh a day.

Norman_Castle

The last time I checked my undercounter fridge used between £50 and £70 per year. Its the most expensive to run single item i've got.

dogshome

1st suspect is the built-in Fridge, all too often these are starved of good air circulation and as they older they have to work harder & harder

Usually the plug & socket on built-ins is hard to get at, but if yours is accessable buy a watt meter and just check what it is useing a day

ASavvyBuyer

When we went away for 3 weeks last September, we only used 42 units of electricity. That was for 1 chest freezer (in the garage), 1 fridge/freezer & 1 undercounter fridge, plus alarm, ip camera & router.

zaax

st999 wrote: »

When I go on holiday my electricity usage is about 3 kWh a day.

That is a freezer and a separate fridge, SKY box which occasionally records programmes, a clock radio, my cooker clock and my Virgin router/modem

Normal electricity usage is about 10 kWh a day.

A new sky box consumes 45w a day, and not a lot less when in standby. The virgin router can be turned off.

geoffken

Update
Under counter fridge off 12 hours 09 pm to 9 am .
Used 3 units o night so now going to have to check other 2 fridge freezers on same timings.
Am getting on loan meter hopefully today to try and narrow down.

thanks for all replies.
It does appear we have a rogue appliance or meter.
Keep looking at this thread

st999

A new sky box consumes 45w a day

My plug in meter says mine consumes 45 watts per hour

The virgin router can be turned off.

I know.

matelodave

st999 wrote: »

My plug in meter says mine consumes 45 watts per hour

That's right - about 1kwh and 12p or more a day. Quite expensive to run at about £48 a year on top of what you pay to SKY

D_M_E

Thanks for the update - it seems that turning off the under counter fridge cut your usage to 3 units a day so that looks the likely culprit.

Those things I think have a 300w compressor so if it never stops then it would use about 8 units every 24 hours on its own.

Either it has not enough air circulation or not enough refrigerant in its system.

3 units over 24 hours (without that fridge) and I assume with everybody using power over the period is quite low.

Jonesya

If you've got a number of appliances to check out you might want a plug in power meter, this sort of thing:
http://www.screwfix.com/p/energenie-ener007-energy-saving-power-meter-socket/3477H?kpid=3477H

Other items to check - got an electric heated towel rail? Any sound system, some of the sub-woofers remain powered up.