how low is your leccy consumption now, this very week..... asking for a friend

RelievedSheff

Chrysalis said:

Crazy how variable things are, on another forum many have daily usage at about 20 kWh a day and they consider my usage tiny, but then my usage seems high compared to those posting 3 kWh a day.

My daily average is 6-7 kWh a day.

Our daily average is much the same as yours and I'm struggling to even comprehend how we could half that!

We are out of the house for a large part of the day during the working week and we don't watch much TV maybe an hour, two tops in the evening.

michaels

Robgmun said:

Chrysalis said:

Crazy how variable things are, on another forum many have daily usage at about 20 kWh a day and they consider my usage tiny, but then my usage seems high compared to those posting 3 kWh a day.

My daily average is 6-7 kWh a day.

The difference is that most normal non-MSE people aren't obsessed about saving money like we are and 20 kWh was pretty common. I know because I was one of them. Once I started to take notice a month ago it went from an average of 20 down to about 8-10 without impacting our daily lives.

I could go lower but that would mean much bigger changes that would we'd find reduces our comfort. We're pretty happy with where we are now

Would be really interested in how you achieved that, we are big users but I can't see any big savings that are not also big lifestyle changes

dunstonh

What is interesting is that before the Government stepped in, this forum was full of threads/posts on how to save energy easily.  Since the Government announced its cap, the energy saving threads/posts have largely gone away.

And I am partly guilty of it too.  I have an electric AGA that uses 273kWh per week.  We brought our daily use down from 18-20KWh with it off to 8-10kWh a day.  I was going to use the AGA less over winter to keep our use reduced.   However, with the price cap, there isn't a need to save electricity any more (from a cost point of view).

michaels

dunstonh said:

What is interesting is that before the Government stepped in, this forum was full of threads/posts on how to save energy easily.  Since the Government announced its cap, the energy saving threads/posts have largely gone away.

And I am partly guilty of it too.  I have an electric AGA that uses 273kWh per week.  We brought our daily use down from 18-20KWh with it off to 8-10kWh a day.  I was going to use the AGA less over winter to keep our use reduced.   However, with the price cap, there isn't a need to save electricity any more (from a cost point of view).

Well I guess there are a lot for whom the doubling of bills compared to last winter will mean they need to half usage - but then there are now probably a lot more for who a quadrupling of bills would mean material cutbacks in demand but for who a doubling can mostly be swallowed.  So the cap is regressive, bad for the planet and potentially much more likely to end up with rolling power cuts. (Oh yes and 'paid for' eventually by more taxes and spending cuts but in the short term by undermining the pound though borrowing leading to my inflation in other essentials such as food and petrol.  Personally I don't think it wold have been impossible to target help even for this winter and it was political not practical considerations that have led to this farce)

The_Green_Hornet

dunstonh said:

What is interesting is that before the Government stepped in, this forum was full of threads/posts on how to save energy easily.  Since the Government announced its cap, the energy saving threads/posts have largely gone away.

And I am partly guilty of it too.  I have an electric AGA that uses 273kWh per week.  We brought our daily use down from 18-20KWh with it off to 8-10kWh a day.  I was going to use the AGA less over winter to keep our use reduced.   However, with the price cap, there isn't a need to save electricity any more (from a cost point of view).

Crikey!. Your AGA uses more electricity in a week than I import in a whole quarter.

dunstonh

The_Green_Hornet said:

dunstonh said:

What is interesting is that before the Government stepped in, this forum was full of threads/posts on how to save energy easily.  Since the Government announced its cap, the energy saving threads/posts have largely gone away.

And I am partly guilty of it too.  I have an electric AGA that uses 273kWh per week.  We brought our daily use down from 18-20KWh with it off to 8-10kWh a day.  I was going to use the AGA less over winter to keep our use reduced.   However, with the price cap, there isn't a need to save electricity any more (from a cost point of view).

Crikey!. Your AGA uses more electricity in a week than I import in a whole quarter.

Yes.  They are heavy users.  Yes you get some heat for the room which reduces oil use and you can use it to help dry some clothes but that only offsets around 5kWh per day leaving it 34kWh per day.

Hence why it is turned off from June to September.  In a few weeks time, I will be looking at the energy monitor and instead of feeling chuffed about seeing around 8-10kWh a day, it will be about 42kWh a day.  Better than the 53+ it was last winter but hey ho.  At least it uses economy 7 rates

Coffeekup

dunstonh said:

What is interesting is that before the Government stepped in, this forum was full of threads/posts on how to save energy easily.  Since the Government announced its cap, the energy saving threads/posts have largely gone away.

-snip-

I was thinking the exact same thing yesterday evening 🤣.

Coffeekup

Coffeekup said:

1 adult, 1 teen, 2 bed mid terrace. Gas c/h & hob everything else leccy.
YTD average consumption 3.3 kwh's a day, this week's consumption (sun-now 10.7 kWh's).

I have averaged 3.3kwh's a day over the last year and it's the same for most month's, excluding December and January where boiler is in more use and Xmas lights are on and in the June/July where I spend the time elsewhere so use less.

After this post I changed my old 11 year 46" Samsung LCD TV (140w) thinking the new tariff pricing will sting me hard so wanted to see what a spare 42" Panasonic LCD (74w) I inherited would do to my daily/weekly/monthly and yearly usage.

It's bought my average daily usage down to 2.8 kWh's a day for the last two weeks a saving of 182kwh's a year. Which at the projected rates at the time of 60p a kWh, I would have saved around £110 a year or £9 a month.
Now I'll just be saving £61 a year or just over a fiver a month, hardly seems worth it now.

Robgmun

michaels said:

Robgmun said:

Chrysalis said:

Crazy how variable things are, on another forum many have daily usage at about 20 kWh a day and they consider my usage tiny, but then my usage seems high compared to those posting 3 kWh a day.

My daily average is 6-7 kWh a day.

The difference is that most normal non-MSE people aren't obsessed about saving money like we are and 20 kWh was pretty common. I know because I was one of them. Once I started to take notice a month ago it went from an average of 20 down to about 8-10 without impacting our daily lives.

I could go lower but that would mean much bigger changes that would we'd find reduces our comfort. We're pretty happy with where we are now

Would be really interested in how you achieved that, we are big users but I can't see any big savings that are not also big lifestyle changes

3 Main ways. 

1) Changed all the remaining light bulbs to LED, we had a couple of Halogen blub up-lighters that were consuming 220W each. We threw them out and replaced them with equivalent LED up-lighters that were virtually the same in every way giving off the same amount of light and warm temp, they're only pulling 20w each.

2) Everything is now on smart plugs so no more things on standby. Swapped my office desktop PC that was pulling 130w when on with a laptop that only pulls 65w when charging. And i'm not charging it all the time

3) And a big one, Switched off the immersion heater for the water tank. That was consuming about 6khw per day on it's own. It was a waste of energy because the water tank was keeping the water hot enough anyway. Only need the gas on for 60-90mins a day for every one (4 of us at the moment) to have nice hot showers and do the dishes etc 

Chrysalis

RelievedSheff said:

Chrysalis said:

Crazy how variable things are, on another forum many have daily usage at about 20 kWh a day and they consider my usage tiny, but then my usage seems high compared to those posting 3 kWh a day.

My daily average is 6-7 kWh a day.

Our daily average is much the same as yours and I'm struggling to even comprehend how we could half that!

We are out of the house for a large part of the day during the working week and we don't watch much TV maybe an hour, two tops in the evening.

Same.

I run a gaming PC for a big chunk of the day as well, if that was off I would probably be in the 4 kWh range.