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

Coffeekup

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).

jimjames

Fridges alone are 3.4kWh/day here even if no one home plus any other use so way above your numbers

middle_aged_single_man

1 bedroom apartment, 50 cubic meters give or take... using 2.6kwh's most summer days, fridge freezer and PC, digital clock display on the gas cooker and an electric water purifier thingy attached to incoming cold mains water. 

I averaged 1040 kwh for last 12 months but had a couple of winter months away in total on winter breaks so maybe 1250ish KWH pro rata.

SAC2334

 I have a 3 bed large detached bungalow , now on my own after my partner died 5 years ago so I can experiment what I can get it down to. Something I would nt have dreamed of with someone else in the house .

I am doing 10 day at a time checks direct from the meters 

Last 10 days electric was under 4 p kwh daily for the first time and is 3.5 p kwh the last 10 days 
I ve also cut back more on gas usage and that is down to 1.5 kwh s a day 
I can see that in the winter months I think I can manage on 5 kwh s a day electric.

Absolutely no idea what the gas kwh rate will be once the combi boiler gets used for heating but I have a three different strategies I will try .
Past years I have been between 8000 and 12000 gas kwh s with the electric being around 2200 to 2400 .

ariarnia

NeverendingDMP said:

I can't get below an average of 10 kWh per day. 2 adults 3 kids. How are similar sized families getting less than me. I'm hoping for a revolution when my wattage meter thing arrives

i dont know about anyone else, but for us i think its because the OH and kids are hardly in the house this time of year i work from home but work on a laptop (i have a desk and monitor set up but while its warm i like to move around the house and sometimes sit outside while working or on the phone so it's turned off at the wall until winter). everyone else is probably only in the house and awake for 5 or 6 hours a day during the week and we all like to go out at the weekend.

OH showers at work most days as he more often than not bikes in or uses the gym at lunch/after work (it's an onsite 'fitness room' that i think is free or £3 a month for the insurance or something like that) and this year the kids also have free access to the leisure centre/classes that's next to the school (son is more interested than daughter at the moment but they both like to swim. worth checking if your council are doing something similar as i've heard of more than one who are.) so I'm the one who is most often showering at home which will cut the water and gas use. 

it also helps that our white goods are all fairly new (within the last 3 years) so washing machine/ dishwasher/ fridge etc is the highest rating for energy efficiency. that should probably be set off against the cost to buy them (though we did need them to replace the seriously end of life that was the landlords before we bought the place). i also haven't used the main oven in probably 10 years. we have a mini oven, instant pot and air fryer. we still have one in the kitchen (for now at least. i'm trying to convince the OH another cupboard would be a better use of the space) i just haven't had a need to turn it on. 

And our lifestyle has always been fairly low energy. we're a family of readers and crafters so we'll all often be sitting in the lounge or bedrooms of an evening with knitting or paints or kindles rather than more power hungry devices (though we probably spend more on those hobbies than we save on power!). 

i think it all adds up really. little differences between households. but what we save on energy we surely spend onother things so there's no write or wrong if it works for you

SAC2334

GasPants said:

7.2kWh/d - electric oven has to go, electric shower too.
4.3kWh/d for gas

Why get rid of the electric shower ?
I ve been experimenting using the on/off method and I ve got the 8 kw electric shower down to 32 seconds on producing hot water .
8 secs on to give a quick soaking blast then switch off at shower. when ready,( take as long as you like )then switch pull switch off and on quickly then back on at the shower to rinse off for 20 odd seconds 
Seems that switching the main pull switch off and on quickly stops that long cold or scalding hot when starting shower back on which drags out the shower time. 

strawb_shortcake

For the last month we averaged 8kwh per day, but 2 adults 3 teenagers and too much screen time. 

After other threads on here I'm curious now to how much we'll save without the eldest being sat at the PC for hours on end and the x-box will go back to weekends only in a few days time. 

Ultrasonic

I've used an average of 3.0 kWh per day in August (single adult household, electric cooker but gas for hot water and heating). 

FWIW I've averaged 1.2 kWh of gas per day for the same period.

NeverendingDMP

ariarnia said:

NeverendingDMP said:I can't get below an average of 10 kWh per day. 2 adults 3 kids. How are similar sized families getting less than me. I'm hoping for a revolution when my wattage meter thing arrives

i dont know about anyone else, but for us i think its because the OH and kids are hardly in the house this time of year i work from home but work on a laptop (i have a desk and monitor set up but while its warm i like to move around the house and sometimes sit outside while working or on the phone so it's turned off at the wall until winter). everyone else is probably only in the house and awake for 5 or 6 hours a day during the week and we all like to go out at the weekend.

OH showers at work most days as he more often than not bikes in or uses the gym at lunch/after work (it's an onsite 'fitness room' that i think is free or £3 a month for the insurance or something like that) and this year the kids also have free access to the leisure centre/classes that's next to the school (son is more interested than daughter at the moment but they both like to swim. worth checking if your council are doing something similar as i've heard of more than one who are.) so I'm the one who is most often showering at home which will cut the water and gas use. 

it also helps that our white goods are all fairly new (within the last 3 years) so washing machine/ dishwasher/ fridge etc is the highest rating for energy efficiency. that should probably be set off against the cost to buy them (though we did need them to replace the seriously end of life that was the landlords before we bought the place). i also haven't used the main oven in probably 10 years. we have a mini oven, instant pot and air fryer. we still have one in the kitchen (for now at least. i'm trying to convince the OH another cupboard would be a better use of the space) i just haven't had a need to turn it on. 

And our lifestyle has always been fairly low energy. we're a family of readers and crafters so we'll all often be sitting in the lounge or bedrooms of an evening with knitting or paints or kindles rather than more power hungry devices (though we probably spend more on those hobbies than we save on power!). 

i think it all adds up really. little differences between households. but what we save on energy we surely spend onother things so there's no write or wrong if it works for you

Thankyou that's a really useful insight. Our appliances are mainly new this year but we do run TVs and Xbox types things in the holidays and weekends. I had hoped to see a drop on days we don't use oven or we've been out but don't seem to have. I'm wanting to shave a couplemof units off a day so will keep trying. I have my suspicion it's just our general use but I do have fingers crossed that one particular non children  gadget will be a unrealised energy vampire that I can just switch off to save a fortune. I will have to monitor when back at school to see if the kids TV/tech is causing problems

Thanks

Marypw

17.7 kWh last week, as per my IHD,  but we do have solar panels and a battery.  Still waiting for SEG payments to be set up, but that will only be 3.5 p per kWh, when all the paperwork is sorted.
I'm now only using the tumble dryer for towels and sheets. Two of us, retired and we cook a lot.
Currently building up huge credit with Eon Next v7 which stops in a month and then transferring to v19.  Hoping that will be the right decision come next January.