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

Max68

179 kw for electricity in the last 31 days so if my maths is right that's around 5.77 per day.  How some of you get it so low is incredible because when I am at work all day I'll come home and check and it's around 3kw when I haven't even been here.  Probably early morning cuppa, shower and hot water!  Last three months my monthly readings have been 183,181 and now 179.  Compare it with the last four years for August where I used 258, 297, 337 and 290 I have cut down dramatically.  Partly probably due to a couple of years ago when I used a mobile air con unit in the summer, where I used a fan this year.  Plus little things like only having a light on in the room you are in all helps along with bigger clothes washes.  Not one for turning everything off though.  Amount of times I've turned something on and gone away only to realise 5 minute later it's not plugged in!!

Trying to not use the dryer which is the big eater but air drying just makes bed clothes and towels especially turn out like fibreglass.  Just can't find any setting on it where it saves energy.  Did an experiment with dish washer on eco setting and that used double what the normal setting does,,,,odd!  Trying now to hand wash but flip of a coin energy or water bill to go up!!

Despite major reduction of usage with 179kw electric and only 6 imperial units of gas used (can't work the conversion out) bill still came to £83.71 and that's before October 80% increase and it's still summer!  Frightening.

Ultrasonic

Alnat1 said:

FF sales are going through the roof at the moment it seems.

I guess this should be obvious but what is FF?

Clueless56

Max68 said:

179 kw for electricity in the last 31 days so if my maths is right that's around 5.77 per day.  How some of you get it so low is incredible because when I am at work all day I'll come home and check and it's around 3kw when I haven't even been here.  Probably early morning cuppa, shower and hot water!  Last three months my monthly readings have been 183,181 and now 179.  Compare it with the last four years for August where I used 258, 297, 337 and 290 I have cut down dramatically.  Partly probably due to a couple of years ago when I used a mobile air con unit in the summer, where I used a fan this year.  Plus little things like only having a light on in the room you are in all helps along with bigger clothes washes.  Not one for turning everything off though.  Amount of times I've turned something on and gone away only to realise 5 minute later it's not plugged in!!

Trying to not use the dryer which is the big eater but air drying just makes bed clothes and towels especially turn out like fibreglass.  Just can't find any setting on it where it saves energy.  Did an experiment with dish washer on eco setting and that used double what the normal setting does,,,,odd!  Trying now to hand wash but flip of a coin energy or water bill to go up!!

Despite major reduction of usage with 179kw electric and only 6 imperial units of gas used (can't work the conversion out) bill still came to £83.71 and that's before October 80% increase and it's still summer!  Frightening.

I'm the opposite - a low energy user amazed at how much others use.  I don't make particular efforts to keep my usage low (though I did replace all bulbs with LEDs when I first moved here) and think it's just because I live alone in a small house and have gas CH and hob.  How many are in your household, how big is it, and do you charge an EV or have lots of electrical devices in your home to explain why you use almost double what I do?

dunstonh

Ultrasonic said:

Alnat1 said:

FF sales are going through the roof at the moment it seems.

I guess this should be obvious but what is FF?

Fridge Freezer.    

orbit500

Last week. consumption 414kWh, import from grid 224 kWh of which 98% was off peak so total cost to me £11.19... solar and batteries is the only way through this. That's swimming pool, hot tub, cooking and EV.

wild666

jimjames said:

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

That must be a really old fridge as my daily usage is between 3.8 and 4.8 kWh per day depending on if i use the games consoles for a few hours.

dunstonh

wild666 said:

jimjames said:

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

That must be a really old fridge as my daily usage is between 3.8 and 4.8 kWh per day depending on if i use the games consoles for a few hours.

Doesn't have to be that old to get that.   We knocked off around 2.5kWh per day by changing our FF and that was a 2015 model moving to the most energy-efficient model available at the moment.     And many people have multiple units. So, the figures may be for multiple !!!!!!, coolers, chest freezer etc.

maxmycardagain

last 24 hours

Electric 4 units

Gas no movement on meter

maxmycardagain

QrizB said:

maxmycardagain said:

For the "low" consumption items (smart TV, set top box, PC, games consoles and monitor) id seriously consider an inverter off a leisure battery with a solar panel charger via an extension cable to the items

That's only really worth doing if the leisure battery is free.

 But what if the leccy goes up 100%?...

maxmycardagain

mummy, why dont we have the electric lights on now?