Oct price cap increase likely to push energy bill to over £10k... for a family of 4...

ispookie666

What ever the outcome one thing is certain - your per day consumption will go down. Hawthorn effect 

gfunkuk

Well I've read all the posts of this thread with great interest. Just in case it helps anyone I'll tell you what I've noticed about my own energy use.

My usage is 100% electric living in an apartment with limited need to heat, but having an energy monitoring smart plug I've worked out what a lot of items use:

My current rates are 22p 0545 - 1245, 36p other times locked until end of May 23.

Water heater is the biggest hitter @ 3kw, 1.5 hours heating per night gives me enough hot water for the day based on quick 4 minute showers for me and my partner and on the basis that we don't mind waiting upto a minute for the hot water to come out of the tap. £1 a day

Multi split air conditioning. 1 unit @ 2kw, 1 unit @ 6kw. The 2kw running flat out uses about 600-700W, the 6kw can be just under 2kw.
When we had the heat wave I was looking at about 12kw a day although that's gone down to about 3 or 4 now.

Watercooled Gaming PC with 3090 GPU, Ryzen 3 and ultrawide monitor can throw out upto 600W when gaming, when mining eth (which I don't do anymore) 280W on the GPU, plus approx 120 for the cpu. Water cooling makes a massive difference on the heat output but only if the ambient temperature is not higher than 24C

Home cinema with multiple power amps again another 600W

Water distiller (which my other half insists on using) 580W x 5 hours a day.

24/7 NAS and server - added together another 90W

All in I spend about £230 a month actual usage which isn't bad considering all the appliances I have.

GingerTim

How much will that be per month when your tariff ends, based on current estimates for SVT rates?

gfunkuk

GingerTim said:

How much will that be per month when your tariff ends, based on current estimates for SVT rates?

I'm gonna guess about £450. That's OK as I've dodged a bullet with the incoming SVT and it is what it is.

GingerTim

Good to be prepared!

QrizB

gfunkuk said:

My current rates are 22p 0545 - 1245, 36p other times locked until end of May 23.

That's E7 with a slipped timeswitch? Or is it some other wacky tariff?

gfunkuk said:

Water distiller (which my other half insists on using) 580W x 5 hours a day.

Reverse osmosis would probably cost less to run but give an equivalent result, if you can persuade your OH?

gfunkuk

QrizB said:

gfunkuk said:

My current rates are 22p 0545 - 1245, 36p other times locked until end of May 23.

That's E7 with a slipped timeswitch? Or is it some other wacky tariff?

That's E7 thanks to the meter having the wrong time set. All apartments here have completely different times! It's a lottery.

gfunkuk said:

Water distiller (which my other half insists on using) 580W x 5 hours a day.

Reverse osmosis would probably cost less to run but give an equivalent result, if you can persuade your OH?

I don't know what this is but it begs research. Any attempts to discuss not using the distiller result in arguments so.... I'll tread carefully!

gfunkuk

She says she's done her research and distilled is better. I give up!

Mstty

I really don't care about your domestic dispute but your usage could do with some attention unless a bill closer to £500 doesn't concern you.

There is one energy price predictor suggesting 90p kWh for Electricity when your fix comes to an end but this should be seen as hopefully a worse case situation. We all hope.

MariaAH

KxMx said:

You can't put a price on health,  and while you are trying to reduce energy use that doesn't mean absolutely everything needs to be about pounds and pence. 

Totally agree - its a balance.