How much are others paying per day for gas and electricity?

baltiqueen

Mine is between £3 and £4 according to the smart meter and I’ve had the heating on part of the day.  The house is a small 3 bed detached with 10 rads. Can expect this to double in cold weather - what do you think?

Xbigman

Most regular posters on here don't look at costs per day. It is far better to look at usage (kwh) per day as this is far more helpful when trying to reduce usage. It is also a constant as prices change from time to time and it makes it look like your usage has increased when it's merely the price going up.

As you asked, in money, about £1.05 per day. That's about 3 kwh.



Darren

baltiqueen

That’s really good. 

I thought mine was quite reasonable tbh just dreading to going up.
will look at per kWh usage too. Not sure it’s possible to really reduce it as everything used is needed

dunstonh

I am not on gas.  We are on oil for heating.  I currently float between 8kWh & 11kWh day.  It was around 18-20kWh a day but did some learning and found it easy to reduce it.   At peak winter, it usually goes up to around 58kWh per day but I am hoping to have it in the mid 40kWh per day range this year. 

baltiqueen

I’d be interested in reducing consumption but don’t really want to compromise on warmth. Working at home and cooking most meals from scratch means that usage will be moderate all year round.  
Cutting out takeaways and other frivolous things has to be the way to go.

Ultrasonic

baltiqueen said:

Mine is between £3 and £4 according to the smart meter and I’ve had the heating on part of the day.  The house is a small 3 bed detached with 10 rads. Can expect this to double in cold weather - what do you think?

If you're here because you're looking to save money I'd start by asking yourself if you really needed your heating on today? Age and health conditions can affect how people feel the cold but I doubt most will have used heating today.

Total energy cost for me today including standing charges is about £2 (3.8 kWh of electricity and 0.9 kWh of gas), as a single occupant of a 3 bedroom detached house.

Spoonie_Turtle

Er … fluctuates between £8-£10 at the moment, and yes that's horrific.  Partly because we're on Octopus' Tracker tariff which is above the SVT, partly because we're all-electric, and partly because we haven't identified exactly where all our usage is going yet (although main suspects are very old fridge and freezers - freezers were measured using just over 5kWh/day right now, which accounts for 1/4 of our usage).

If we were on the SVT right now it would be costing £6.20 on average.  It will increase when the heating kicks in and as the water needs more energy to heat as it gets colder.  I'm hoping we can minimise the damage by working out how to make our heat pump run more efficiently, but winter at the EPG rate is going to be, er, interesting …

EssexHebridean

Right now my monitor for the electric tells me £1.56 - a little higher than it would be if we were still on the SVT. There will have been some gas use today as I had the oven on earlier to cook a pizza - it was the top oven though, and only for 25 minutes or so, so that will just be pennies above the standing charge.

baltiqueen

Just checked and it’s 3kwh for electricity and 26khw for gas.  

baltiqueen

Ultrasonic said:

baltiqueen said:

Mine is between £3 and £4 according to the smart meter and I’ve had the heating on part of the day.  The house is a small 3 bed detached with 10 rads. Can expect this to double in cold weather - what do you think?

If you're here because you're looking to save money I'd start by asking yourself if you really needed your heating on today? Age and health conditions can affect how people feel the cold but I doubt most will have used heating today.

Total energy cost for me today including standing charges is about £2 (3.8 kWh of electricity and 0.9 kWh of gas), as a single occupant of a 3 bedroom detached house.

Interested in saving money where possible like everyone here. Probably could have gone without the heating on but at home most of the day relaxing and consciously not going out wasting money on coffees, alcohol etc. There has to be a balance between sensible usage and waste. 

Recently had a new boiler and hive system put in so working out the best way to run it. Will be using it effectively but monitoring usage on the smart meter.

baltiqueen

Spoonie_Turtle said:

Er … fluctuates between £8-£10 at the moment, and yes that's horrific.  Partly because we're on Octopus' Tracker tariff which is above the SVT, partly because we're all-electric, and partly because we haven't identified exactly where all our usage is going yet (although main suspects are very old fridge and freezers - freezers were measured using just over 5kWh/day right now, which accounts for 1/4 of our usage).

If we were on the SVT right now it would be costing £6.20 on average.  It will increase when the heating kicks in and as the water needs more energy to heat as it gets colder.  I'm hoping we can minimise the damage by working out how to make our heat pump run more efficiently, but winter at the EPG rate is going to be, er, interesting …

That is horrific and it’s not even that cold yet!
heat pumps are meant to be more efficient.