High electricity usage help

Sea_Shell

How old is that meter?  Was it newly installed at 00000 fairly recently (2-4 years)  or has it gone round the clock?

Are you sure you're not misreading a decimal point somewhere?

bagand96

Many users here recommend a meter sense check, and then isolating all the circuits at the consumer unit and then turning them back on one by one to narrow down if there's a constant drain or where the high drain is coming from.

- Turn everything off at the consumer unit and then monitor the meter to see if it is incrementing.  This will vary depending on your meter type, if its an old meter check if the disk is spinning, if a modern meter see if the red LED is flashing.

- Then turn your circuits back on one by one and again monitor the meter to see if and when the use starts to increase.

kelloggs36

It is a newish one, a digital one but I honestly cannot remember when it was installed.

Spies

Not a smart meter though? 

QrizB

kelloggs36 said:

We have no kettle, instead a boiling water tap and a built in coffee machine which we make 2 cups per day.

I have my suspicions that one of these two appliances are going to be the root of your problem. If the hot water tap is anything like this one, it will have a tank of water under the sink which it holds at high temperature. That could easily get through 3 or 4 kWh/day, 1200-1500 kWh/yr, depending on how well insulated it is.

matelodave

The best Iidea is to check what your baseload is by turning stuff off as usuall before going to bed and then reading the meter. Read it again when you get up beofre you turn anything on. That will allow you to work out your baseload.

Try doing it for a week and recording what you are doing during the day. It's not easy comparing your consumption with someone elses but the accepted "average" is around 3500kwh a year = 10kwh a day.. Somedays it'll be less and others quite a bit more so you need to identify what's using it and when

We are all electric (heating and hot water etc) and our annual consumption is around 7500kwh = 20kwh a day, some days (in the summer) it's around 7-8 and others it's up to 60kwh (in the winter when its really cold)

Sea_Shell

matelodave said:

The best Iidea is to check what your baseload is by turning stuff off as usuall before going to bed and then reading the meter. Read it again when you get up beofre you turn anything on. That will allow you to work out your baseload.

Try doing it for a week and recording what you are doing during the day. It's not easy comparing your consumption with someone elses but the accepted "average" is around 3500kwh a year = 10kwh a day.. Somedays it'll be less and others quite a bit more so you need to identify what's using it and when

We are all electric (heating and hot water etc) and our annual consumption is around 7500kwh = 20kwh a day, some days (in the summer) it's around 7-8 and others it's up to 60kwh (in the winter when its really cold)

But aren't those electric "averages" skewed by those households that are electric only?

Are there any "average" electricity usage figures for those households who have GSH/HW?

MWT

Sea_Shell said:

matelodave said:

The best Iidea is to check what your baseload is by turning stuff off as usuall before going to bed and then reading the meter. Read it again when you get up beofre you turn anything on. That will allow you to work out your baseload.

Try doing it for a week and recording what you are doing during the day. It's not easy comparing your consumption with someone elses but the accepted "average" is around 3500kwh a year = 10kwh a day.. Somedays it'll be less and others quite a bit more so you need to identify what's using it and when

We are all electric (heating and hot water etc) and our annual consumption is around 7500kwh = 20kwh a day, some days (in the summer) it's around 7-8 and others it's up to 60kwh (in the winter when its really cold)

But aren't those electric "averages" skewed by those households that are electric only?

Are there any "average" electricity usage figures for those households who have GSH/HW?

Currently Ofgem suggest that a typical household using electricity and gas will use 2900kWh of electricity and 12,000kWh of gas.

Sea_Shell

MWT said:

Sea_Shell said:

matelodave said:

The best Iidea is to check what your baseload is by turning stuff off as usuall before going to bed and then reading the meter. Read it again when you get up beofre you turn anything on. That will allow you to work out your baseload.

Try doing it for a week and recording what you are doing during the day. It's not easy comparing your consumption with someone elses but the accepted "average" is around 3500kwh a year = 10kwh a day.. Somedays it'll be less and others quite a bit more so you need to identify what's using it and when

We are all electric (heating and hot water etc) and our annual consumption is around 7500kwh = 20kwh a day, some days (in the summer) it's around 7-8 and others it's up to 60kwh (in the winter when its really cold)

But aren't those electric "averages" skewed by those households that are electric only?

Are there any "average" electricity usage figures for those households who have GSH/HW?

Currently Ofgem suggest that a typical household using electricity and gas will use 2900kWh of electricity and 12,000kWh of gas.

But are those figures actually based solely on those with duel fuel, or do they also lump in the electric only households?

So does that mean that the average total kWh usage is 14,900 kWh per household, regardless of fuel used?

QrizB

Sea_Shell said:

Are there any "average" electricity usage figures for those households who have GSH/HW?

Ofgem's numbers here.

• Gas:8000 low, 12000 medium, 17000 high
• Dual-fuel elec: 1800, 2900, 4300
• Single-fuel elec: 2400, 4200, 7100.