December 2022 compared with previous Decembers

Sterlingtimes

My gas usage was: 2019: 3,561 kWh, 2020: 3,710 kWh, 2021: 3,426 kWh.

My expected usage for December 2022 is 3,400 kWh, although I have invested in making savings. I appear to have failed.

Has this December been unusually good or unusually bad in terms of heating demand? 

MikeJXE

Mine is up slightly from 2021 and still 3 days to go 

ariarnia

yes we have also seen an increase since last year. some of that is because we have the mil living with us for the last 3 weeks as her house is hard and expensive to heat. so our heating has been higher than we would have it if it was just us and the kids. but with our gas being higher the work we've done to keep on top of our electric use seems to have paid off at least.  

2021
gas 1356 kwh/ average of 43 kwh a day
electric 196 kwh/ average of 6.3 kwh a day

2022 
gas 1666 kwh (+310) average of 53 kwh a day 
electric 120 kwh (-76) average of 3.8 kwh a day 

FreeBear

2019

gas 1142 KWh

elec 270 KWh

2020

gas 1471 KWh

elec 265 KWh

2021

gas 700 KWh

elec 126 KWh

2022

gas 700 KWh

elec 176 KWh

born_again

Nothing changed within household people wise.
Only difference this year is that heating is set to just 2 times 07:00 to 21:45 @ 19C & 21:45 to 07:00 @ 17C. Does get the odd boost to 20C if really cold, & new small radiator just behind front door to warm between there & another door, as this was always a cold area, which bled into the rest of the house as you went in/out.
2021 was set with more temp changes during the day. 4 I think.
So from a heating perspective a more constant temp = lower costs to me.

2021
Gas 339 units
Ele 151 units
Cost £159.77

2022
Gas 131 units
Ele 207 units
Cost £202.17

Certainly affected by the sub zero 3rd week.

Tumble dryer is the culprit for electric. But with being so wet, no other choice.

MovingForwards

2022
G 1224.10
E 124.09
Combined annual usage 6693.41 (£719.08)

2021
G 1007.05
E 124.86
Combined annual usage 8035.45 (£522.06)

It has been cold in Scotland this month.

GCH, on demand hot water, oven and hob.

Electric washing machine, shower, lights, TV, laptops and PCs running dual monitors, printer, charging phones and batteries, kettle, toaster, vacuum and dehumidifier.

No microwave, air fryer, slow cooker, tumble dryer, hairdryer etc.

Cirrus1

Sterlingtimes said:

Has this December been unusually good or unusually bad in terms of heating demand? 

Well, the 10 days of arctic chill, with the average being under 0 degrees, has not done our heating demand any good.

24 days into the billing period is seeing a gas increase of 23% (86m3)  from this time last year. It would have been worse but we are now into zoning and insulating in a big way. Even so, we were using about 25m3 of gas a day and everyone was still moaning about being cold!

My Octo-Aid app is forecasting a spend for December that is 4 times what I spent last year. At least in 2021, we were all very comfortable.

Ally_E.

As the average daily temperature in December was 2 degrees lower in 2022 than 2021 in my area, it's not a like for like comparison. We used less gas this year, 3,827kW/h in 2022 vs 4,020kW/h in 2021. The reduction is thanks to lowering the target temperature 1 degree, being smarter with heating settings and boiler flow temp and huddling in the warmest rooms during the cold snap and not heating the coldest room (my office) to 18C. 

Magnitio

My records show last December as being the warmest of the last 5 years, so possibly not the best one to compare with. Gas usage over the last 5 years:

2018 - 1544kWh

2019 - 1513kWh

2020 - 1324kWh

2021 - 1186kWh

2022 - 1254kWh so far.

Coffeekup

My gas usage for the previous 3 December's was....
2020 - 1,763 kWh's.
2021 - 565 kWh's.

I penned in to use 600 kwh's this December hoping it would be a mild like it was in Dec 2021... However December 2022 I've used 1,030 kWh's .... But I had 3 weeks of really cold weather..... -2°C to -5°C at night and -2°C to +3°C in the days.
As I mentioned in a previous post I hope to pull that back in January/ February.... Fingers crossed it's mild... But I would like some snow.

strawb_shortcake

Dec 21 331kwh electric 
Dec 22 290kwh electric  - no gas

Compared to November our consumption has increased by 50kwh, this is due to eldest being home from uni and the gaming PC back in action, as well as youngest playing on the x-box significantly more over the holidays. 2 sets of Christmas lights and my oven being on far more than usual. 
Still building up credit though