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

Mstty

6.33 kWh average May til today.

Not bad two adults working from home all electric household so that include hot water and legionella burns. 6 loads of washing 5 tumble dryer loads, dishwasher on 6 times a week. Fridge freezer inside and one freezer outside.

I am very impressed we are a good 100kwh down per month on last year with some small changes to cooking, laundry and having most things off til needed.

I suspect we will add1-1.5kw in winter due to more hot food but we are well on our way to meeting our target of just 6000kwh a year as per the target in the signature.

HertsLad

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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.

Actually, to be fair, unless the OPs friend has solar panels, my figure of 0.15kwh per day is not very helpful. Any day when the sun is shining, I use a lot more energy running all kinds of appliances in the afternoon. I estimate that if I turned off the solar and went back to electricity from eon, I'd probably use about 1kwh per day or 7kwh for a week. 

rlcoach

We are averaging 21 kWh of electricity a day - what is going on there?

kingstreet

58.53 kWh in the last seven days.

It will be interesting to see what happens when daughter heads back to University next week. We are also decommissioning a 23 year-old fridge/freezer.

RelievedSheff

rlcoach said:

We are averaging 21 kWh of electricity a day - what is going on there?

You are using a lot of energy.

RelievedSheff

HertsLad said:

Deleted_User said:

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.

Actually, to be fair, unless the OPs friend has solar panels, my figure of 0.15kwh per day is not very helpful. Any day when the sun is shining, I use a lot more energy running all kinds of appliances in the afternoon. I estimate that if I turned off the solar and went back to electricity from eon, I'd probably use about 1kwh per day or 7kwh for a week. 

Our fridge freezer in the kitchen uses more than 1kWh per day 

(The freezer in the garage is more economical but even still about another 0.6kWh per day!)

MuckChucker

The mission is to make the sub 60 weeks a lot more common. We've not gone over 70 in quite a while so that's progress. 

Mstty

rlcoach said:

We are averaging 21 kWh of electricity a day - what is going on there?

Time for an energy review.

Electric showers, big American type Fridge Freezers, powerful desktops, electric vehicle and using the immersion on your hot water tank are the top guzzlers

Mstty

Got ours consistently at a level that is comfortable and reasonable

michaels

Robgmun said:

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 

Thanks, very helpful, so 6kwh switched from electricity to gas which obliviously makes sense financially but is not a saving we could look to duplicate

Does anyone run a monitor for working from home, how much does it consume? Mine is on the old side (24 inch, 1980x1200) and pulls 65w - are newer ones appreciably more economical? (So about 130w with the laptop as well)