Why is my electricity usage so much higher in Winter?

Mstty

DE_612183 said:

Tumble dryer?

Ours is 1kwh for 50 mins in full on roast mode

artyboy

Thanks dunstonh - my OLED is a 55in C1, so will be pretty similar to the CX.

I have 3 Q mini boxes which (given only a few years old) I'd have assumed were a lot better on standby. So much for that assumption!

Mstty

artyboy said:

Thanks dunstonh - my OLED is a 55in C1, so will be pretty similar to the CX.

I have 3 Q mini boxes which (given only a few years old) I'd have assumed were a lot better on standby. So much for that assumption!

However I presume they are on on the summer so that doesn't solve you extra winter usage

artyboy

Mstty said:

artyboy said:

Thanks dunstonh - my OLED is a 55in C1, so will be pretty similar to the CX.

I have 3 Q mini boxes which (given only a few years old) I'd have assumed were a lot better on standby. So much for that assumption!

However I presume they are on on the summer so that doesn't solve you extra winter usage

No agreed, it doesn't address my initial question but it's a possible area to save a bit on regardless...

fergie_

The best way to get a handle is a device such as Emporia Evo that lets you monitor every single circuit at the circuit board. It can then show the data by the minute, hour, day, week, month, year and so on. You can even drill into individual circuits and check historical graphs.

However, when I was monitoring individual devices, the biggest energy users I found were PCs, games consoles, emersers and electric fires. Another huge user is the oven.

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fergie_ said:

The best way to get a handle is a device such as Emporia Evo that lets you monitor every single circuit at the circuit board. It can then show the data by the minute, hour, day, week, month, year and so on. You can even drill into individual circuits and check historical graphs.

However, when I was monitoring individual devices, the biggest energy users I found were PCs, games consoles, emersers and electric fires. Another huge user is the oven.

Great, but when a lot of houses have one circuit for "upstairs" and one for "downstairs", or even just one for "sockets", it doesn't give you any advantage in granularity over smart plugs.

fergie_

Very simple - you start turning things off at the plugs and see what happens

It also lets you monitor things such as ovens and integrated appliances where its not so easy to plug in a smart plug to monitor.

The other thing you may find is that though there is only 1 breaker, there could be more than one ring circuit attached to it.

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Ok people - safety alert here - don't go fiddling with cables inside your consumer unit (fuse box) unless you are a competent electrician, know what you are doing, and have isolated the relevant parts.

chris_n

And if you do find more than one ring circuit off a breaker get it fixed!

Coffeekup

BUFF said:

also boiler pump will be running in winter to circulate hot water to rads ( & to Megaflo) but not summer. Especially if it is older it will be noticeable.
In my case my winter electricity consumption is ~20kWh/month above summer.

Which is about the same for me 15-20 kWh's a month more from November to February.
Lighting, TV on longer, kettle boiled more for few more hot drinks, and oven use (electric for me).

One of the surprising things I took note of 4 years ago was my December usage was always 15-20 kWh's more, it for me thinking for a few hours but when the penny dropped it was obvious. The answer being I have 2 sets of 200 led tree light's which get used anywhere between 5-12 hours a day from the first till the first week of January.
So take note people that decorate the whole of the outside of their property. As the op doesn't say which month or period it's from to, the above could be a big factor into it as will many find out this year.