Energy Usage Costs by Appliance

scaredofdebt

jimjames said:

scaredofdebt said:

Ally_E. said:

scaredofdebt said:

Ally_E. said:

scaredofdebt said:

I think our problem is cooking, we tend to use 20-30 units a day but yesterday we cooked a big meal and usage was nearly

 50 units/kwh

How much does a typical oven use?  Also how much does a typical hob use (induction)?

I can't easily measure those as the plug isn't easily accessible.

You used 50kW/h in one day? That's a quarter of the monthly usage for us and I'm liberal with our electric oven use 

Probably about 47/48 kW/h and it will be ~26 hours or so as I read the meter a bit later today.

It's quite a large 4 bed detached house, 6 people including 3 teenagers with their gadgets.  No heating though, just hot water that's usually about 3-4 kW/h a day.

But the only obvious difference I can see is we used the cooker/hob etc for a longish period of time, there is an extractor fan with LED lights as well and they were on as it was dark.

You combined your electricity used with water in your message above. Did you mean 50kW/h of all energy, that being gas and electric combined? 50kW/h of electricity is a lot. We are in detached house too, but just the 2 of us. During the times when husband was mining crypto we had usage of 15kW/h a day max. Even on days when he mined and we had a heatwave and had the aircon blasting 24/7 we used 20kW/h a day. I would strongly recommend investigating this high usage. Tapo energy monitor from amazon is very useful for this. 

No gas here all electric, the nearly 50 kW/h was for everything combined, with water heating, the CH isn't on at the moment, yet!

Is the water heating constantly? Our immersion only runs a couple of times a day to produce enough hot water for a family

No it's not that, there's 2 separate meters for the ASHP (water and heating) and it's always around 3-4 units a day for the water heating.  I have been reading daily since the latest price rise.

Yesterday we used a total of 8 kW/h so I really don't have a clue, the usage was what we normally do, nothing different that I can think of.

sully1311

Sea_Shell said:

sully1311 said:

Sea_Shell said:

Just on the point of "American Style" fridge freezers.    What makes them so bad?

Is it their size, or is there something else about them that makes them expensive to run?

We have large (standard white) separates in the kitchen, rated at 222kwh pa (freezer - 170L) and 134kwh pa (fridge - 240L)

The brochure states they are both A+ rated.    That's also where I got the usage data from.*

They stand 1430mm tall and are 580mm wide (each).

How does this compare to an American set up??


*This can't be too far out, as when we are away, the house "background" usage, including them, is about 1.5kwh per 24 hours. or average of 63w constant draw.

My Samsung American F/F is rated at 398kw/h pa so not far off your separates but it's rated G. 

Interesting.   Do you know the capacity for each part?   Does yours make ice, or dispense cold drinks?  Ours don't 😉, just basic Currys own brand.

Apologies, I've doubled checked the rating and it's F rating, not G and it's 395kw/h pa, not 398.

Only 210 litres for the freezer, and 407 litres for the fridge. It has a water dispenser which is plumbed in and it also has an ice maker.

Ally_E.

Rating system changed in the last 2 years. What used to be A++ before can be an F now.