Relatively High Electricity Usage

Myrrhman

Hi, 
My recent yearly summary from Shell had my gas usage 60% below the national average but the electricity was 60% over. During the summer, our daughters were back from uni so I expect it to be higher but they're away now and it still seems too high with just my wife and I. 
We used 228 kwh last month. We got rid of the chest freezer and old fridge freezer and replaced them with a modern, larger single unit. Every bulb is energy saving, everything is turned off at night and I bought a monitor to test everything that has a plug. Nothing obvious causing the increase. 
We have a tumble dryer and never use it, the electric oven gets used 1-2 times per month, a dehumidifier on for about 2 hours per day (4p p/h). 
I've gone through everything and I cannot understand what's causing the usage, we are extremely careful.

Any ideas? 

Spies

That's only about 7.6kWh a day, not huge in the grand scheme of things.

Precisely which fridge freezer did you buy?

How do you cook if you hardly use the oven? 

Do you have any fish tanks?

[Deleted User]

228 kWh in a month isn't 60% over average.  It's actually 5% below a typical October usage.

Myrrhman

Spies said:

That's only about 7.6kWh a day, not huge in the grand scheme of things.

Precisely which fridge freezer did you buy?

How do you cook if you hardly use the oven? 

Do you have any fish tanks?

Slow cooker, gas hob or air fryer for cooking. No fish tanks. 
Hisense double door fridge freezer. The chest freezer we got rid of was about 40 years old and opened several times daily. 
I know the usage isn't huge but it's bothering me how it's amywh near the average with just two of us being, very, very careful. 

Myrrhman

[Deleted User] said:

228 kWh in a month isn't 60% over average.  It's actually 5% below a typical October usage.

The 228 was last month after the girls had gone back to uni, the 60% was the yearly summary. July to August was 393 kwh! 

Spies

These actual reads or estimates?

Fridge freezer probably accounts for 1kWh a day. 

RobM99

My usual response - anything that produces heat for a long time - or a gaming PC!

QrizB

Myrrhman said:

Any ideas? 

How old is your electricity meter? Mechanical, electrionic or smart?

Dizee123

When there was two of us in a 3-bedroom bungalow (one fish tank) I had my electric usage at between 6-8 kWh per day by being quite frugal and turning off the outside fridge/freezer, using a slow cooker, batch cooking etc.  Now my adult son is temporarily living with us full-time again it has gone up to between 8-10 kWh just because of extra showers, extra washing, extra cooking, extra TV on and I have had to turn on the outside fridge/freezer again etc.  When his children join us at the weekends it shoots up to between 10-13 kWh depending on how many showers, entertainment consoles are on.

It could be worse, but I do seem to spend my life turning off lights, TVs that are not being watched etc.    

theoretica

Electric shower?

Myrrhman

Spies said:

These actual reads or estimates?

Fridge freezer probably accounts for 1kWh a day. 

Accurate reads.