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

maxmycardagain

I had a delivery of an electric AGA when i had my own vans, took 3 of us to lift onto the van, i noted it needed a new 50A feed supply

maxmycardagain

im at 6 days gas bill (inc) £4
leccy has been £26 for 21 days

internal temperature about 22 degrees/no heating on

dunstonh

maxmycardagain said:

I had a delivery of an electric AGA when i had my own vans, took 3 of us to lift onto the van, i noted it needed a new 50A feed supply

The two traditional AGAs that used electricity were 13amp and 30amp.   Some rangemasters need 50amp but I don't think AGAs do

parkerparker

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).

How does the £2,500 price cap (for the average home) mean that you don't need to save electricity any more? I'm confused.com

HertsLad

My grid-based electricity consumption this week was zero. The thought of using power hungry appliances such an AGA is beyond my comprehension. I managed to get my essential power needs down to 0,15kwh per day, just for a low energy fridge, supplied by a few solar panels and batteries. Is it justified to have anything else running overnight, besides a fridge? I turned off my room lighting, freezer, Ring video doorbell. wifi router, and everything else. 

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parkerparker 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).

How does the £2,500 price cap (for the average home) mean that you don't need to save electricity any more? I'm confused.com

The perceived value of using the electricity is now greater than the financial cost of purchasing it.  @dunstonh quite deliberately didn't make any assertion (positive or negative) about environmental, social, or any other factor beyond cost.

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HertsLad said:

My grid-based electricity consumption this week was zero. The thought of using power hungry appliances such an AGA is beyond my comprehension. I managed to get my essential power needs down to 0,15kwh per day, just for a low energy fridge, supplied by a few solar panels and batteries. Is it justified to have anything else running overnight, besides a fridge? I turned off my room lighting, freezer, Ring video doorbell. wifi router, and everything else. 

But we all know that you're a special sausage.  And very well done to you for it.

dunstonh

parkerparker 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).

How does the £2,500 price cap (for the average home) mean that you don't need to save electricity any more? I'm confused.com

The price cap of £2500 is irrelevant. It is how it equates to the unit price that matters.  And the unit price after Government subsidy means that cost is not an issue for most people any more.  Without the subsidy, it would mean most would need to look for cost savings.

parkerparker

dunstonh said:

parkerparker 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).

How does the £2,500 price cap (for the average home) mean that you don't need to save electricity any more? I'm confused.com

The price cap of £2500 is irrelevant. It is how it equates to the unit price that matters.  And the unit price after Government subsidy means that cost is not an issue for most people any more.  Without the subsidy, it would mean most would need to look for cost savings.

I understand that, I misread your comment. I thought you were saying that there isn't any need to save electricity any more........you mean over and above what you are already saving....I understand now. I'm still looking for cost savings to try and minimise the additional cost over and above last years' tariffs. Cheers.

Robgmun

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HertsLad said:

My grid-based electricity consumption this week was zero. The thought of using power hungry appliances such an AGA is beyond my comprehension. I managed to get my essential power needs down to 0,15kwh per day, just for a low energy fridge, supplied by a few solar panels and batteries. Is it justified to have anything else running overnight, besides a fridge? I turned off my room lighting, freezer, Ring video doorbell. wifi router, and everything else. 

But we all know that you're a special sausage.  And very well done to you for it.

Still..AGA, the whole idea of it is mind boggling and you'd have to be millionaire not to care about that kind of usage