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How is your month and year going December 2023?

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  • wild666
    wild666 Posts: 2,181 Forumite
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    I moved to the tracker tariff in July and have seen a £15 saving on the SC for electric and £1.80 saving on the gas SC but I've had at least a 60p saving per day on the electric kWh price with the lowest daily rate of 7.77p and the highest rate of 24.48p,of near that. Before I went on tracker my average daily usage £1.89 per day but now its sometimes less than a pound per day, the day it was 7.77p per kWh I did a load of stuff on the electric using 11.2 kWh over the 24 hour period it cost me £1.36 that day but on the previous tariff it would have cost me £3.80  tracker is certainly working out better for me price wise. I reckon the average kWh price of tracker is around 17p for electric and 4p for gas.   
    Someone please tell me what money is
  • MultiFuelBurner
    MultiFuelBurner Posts: 2,928 Forumite
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    edited 31 December 2023 at 5:09PM
    wild666 said:
    I moved to the tracker tariff in July and have seen a £15 saving on the SC for electric and £1.80 saving on the gas SC but I've had at least a 60p saving per day on the electric kWh price with the lowest daily rate of 7.77p and the highest rate of 24.48p,of near that. Before I went on tracker my average daily usage £1.89 per day but now its sometimes less than a pound per day, the day it was 7.77p per kWh I did a load of stuff on the electric using 11.2 kWh over the 24 hour period it cost me £1.36 that day but on the previous tariff it would have cost me £3.80  tracker is certainly working out better for me price wise. I reckon the average kWh price of tracker is around 17p for electric and 4p for gas.   
    If you don't track it yourself use gastracker.uk and select your region and both fuels and then further down select 365 days it will tell you the exact prices you paid for the year.
  • Marvel1
    Marvel1 Posts: 7,458 Forumite
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    edited 31 December 2023 at 5:12PM
    Over the year:
    Gas - 1852kWh
    Electric - 1473 kWh

    My email predicaiton from supplier for the upcoming year:
    Gas - 1,820kWh
    Electric - 
    955kWh

    They are way out on Electric estimate.
  • Hoenir
    Hoenir Posts: 7,742 Forumite
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    Been better at switching unnecessary appliances off also wearing a few more layers around the house. Resulting in the thermostat being turned down. As the weather is variable. Only use the 3 month bills for usage comparison purposes. Smooths out the peaks and troughs.  
  • £750 saved on tracker and the savings events may well add £100-150 savings as well.
  • The end of year results are as follows:

    Month
    December 2022 - 1284 kWh gas at a cost of £139.88
    December 2023 - 1149 kWh gas at a cost of £62.45

    Year
    2022 - 6547 kWh gas at a cost of £548.87
    2023 - 6151 kWh gas at a cost of £595.84

    2024 Forecast
    The current forecast for 2024 is 6137 kWh gas at a cost of £400.82
  • Alnat1
    Alnat1 Posts: 3,929 Forumite
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    Energy in 2023 - Gas 8044kWh Electric 1279kWh imported (2797kWh used)

    All "free" paid for with solar export credit, £200 government funding, 2 x Octopus £50 referrals and Savings Session credits. Have a variable DD set up with Octopus but not had to make a payment yet.

    Account was £309.65 in credit at the start of 2023 and now stands at £318.71 in credit to carry forward into 2024. 
    Barnsley, South Yorkshire
    Solar PV 5.25kWp SW facing (14 x 375) installed Mar 22 
    Lux 3.6kw hybrid inverter and 9.6kw Pylontech batteries 
    Daikin 8kW ASHP installed Jan 25
    Octopus Cosy/Fixed Outgoing 
  • December was pretty good for me!

    Only used 825kwh gas owing to warmer weather and some insulation work carried out in the living room last year. My seven year average is 1324kwh. Cost wise just on unit charges my seven year average is £36, December is £43 again mostly with thanks to the Octopus tracker which was way under the svr rates for the whole month.

    Electricity seven year av is 128 kWh and I used 209 in December but if I take off the car charging we would be down to 122 kWh so broadly normal which is what I’d expect. Cost wise again unit costs only my seven year av is £21, December cost me £47 but taking off £16.5 for the car it’s still quite a bit up at £30.50. If we take off the saving session credits I’m way under that 🥳.

    pretty happy with that!
  • Oscarmax
    Oscarmax Posts: 185 Forumite
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    Import 2966.45kWh £721.67
    Export 3025.50kWh £640.66
    Generation 4156kWh
    Gas 9168.28kWh £829.19

    Including 1637.10kWh charging our PHEV
    12 x 370 Watt J A panels Solis 3.6 invertor. Solax AC invertor and 5.8 triple battery
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