How was your month? 1 November 2022 at 11:42AM in Energy 92 replies 8.9K views

BUFF

A very mild Feb. in Glasgow imo.

This years gas 247kWh, last year's Feb. 1316 kWh so under 20% by comparison. Feb 2021 was 1695 kWh.

Electricity up slightly because since last Feb. I bought & started using a dehumidifier on a daily basis.

Swipe

Detached bungalow on economy 7 with storage heaters here. I've managed to cut my consumption down quite a bit compared to last winter.

The graph is from https://energy.guylipman.com/sm/home The data is pulled from n3rgy.com

maisie_cat

We only have electric on a meter in our old stone cottage, heating is biomass but shower is electric.
Feb 2023 259kWh
2022 310kWh
2021 613kWh (still had storage heaters then so perhaps turned on for a few days)
2020 304 kWh (we turned storage heaters off when we moved in because of the expense)

Cirrus1

I’m on tracker now and fed up being cold at 19 degrees. The thermostat is back to 20-21 degrees, it’s much cheaper than the previous tariff so might as well be warm.

MuckChucker

Was March mild? There was definitely a week or two of cold and wet. Anyway, happily below projections based on last year. Next BG 6 monthly bill is due and I'll be expecting a reduction on the £200 DD I have been paying - although the change to the new system is so bungled up they've probably lost all records!

MAR	Units	rate	s/c		unit cost	total
Elec	311	35.07	12.0714		109.0677	121.1391
Gas	559	10.29	8.8319		57.5211	66.353
						£187.49

Last March Units below - this was the first full month with the new boiler which in itself was a MASSIVE decrease on previous months. I've just done the maths on March 2022 with current rates too, £234.95 for the month so good thing we've tightened up.

MAR '22	Units
Elec	380
Gas	785

EssexHebridean

March wasn't particularly mild where I was (East Anglia - but the bit that isn't so far from London) - and our electric use overnight last month was rather higher than I would have preferred - just over 200kWh higher than last year in fact - for a period of slightly above a month. Day rate was up too - by around the same proportion. That one is interesting though - I'll have to have a look/think about where that additional use might be.

MuckChucker

EssexHebridean said:

March wasn't particularly mild where I was (East Anglia - but the bit that isn't so far from London) - and our electric use overnight last month was rather higher than I would have preferred - just over 200kWh higher than last year in fact - for a period of slightly above a month. Day rate was up too - by around the same proportion. That one is interesting though - I'll have to have a look/think about where that additional use might be.

I should have said, I am in Essex also, not a million miles from Chelmsford 

EssexHebridean

MuckChucker said:

EssexHebridean said:

March wasn't particularly mild where I was (East Anglia - but the bit that isn't so far from London) - and our electric use overnight last month was rather higher than I would have preferred - just over 200kWh higher than last year in fact - for a period of slightly above a month. Day rate was up too - by around the same proportion. That one is interesting though - I'll have to have a look/think about where that additional use might be.

I should have said, I am in Essex also, not a million miles from Chelmsford

I'm a few miles west of you!

It was very chilly first thing this morning again with us - but we've definitely started noticing far more warmth in the sun now so it's warmed up pretty fast once that appeared. 

Sterlingtimes

I had a bit of luck in finding a weather review for March 2023 compared with previous averages:

Wettest March in over 40 years for England and Wales - Met Office

• wettest March for 40 years;
• significant lack of sunshine;
• cold temperatures for the first half of March.

Here in the centre of England, my solar generation was 177 kWh compared with 273 kWh last year, i.e. this March was 64% of last. Minimal sun.

My energy usage is skewed by my having fitted intelligent radiator valves, but I think that gas usage on a like-for-like basis is 25% greater than last March.

All in all, it was an awful March.

Swipe

I was pretty much equal to March 22 in usage