How much is your electric bill

macksmum

We heat our home with a wood pellet boiler and have no gas supply. We are two pensioners who use electric for cooking, lighting and appliances.  We rarely use fast food, preferring to cook from scratch for our main meal.  I only use the washing machine once a week and we only put lights on in the evening, one room only. We use 10km hours per day according to our smart meter. Is this about right? Thanks for any input you can give.

Gerry1

Do you mean 10kWh per day?  That doesn't seem impossibly high at this time of year.

However, usage will be higher now than in the summer so you need to think annually not daily and to work from actual meter readings 12 months apart.

How do you heat the water?

Netexporter

I'm a single OAP, all electric apart from a woodburner, and use about 350kWh per month, although that does include charging my electric car. On most days I generally use about 8kWh. I pay considerably less, per unit, than the SVT because I have a smart meter and use the Agile TOU (time of use) tariff. My average unit cost was 11p on my latest bill, 50% cheaper than the SVT.

Oscarmax

We are fortunate we have solar panel and battery, plus Octopus Agile even though 2024 has been disappointing are electric bills to date including standing charges over the last 2 years is negative.

maisie_cat

We are retired, have a wood pellet stove for heating/HW and a wood burner for supplementary heat. Our shower is electric as well as everything else and we used 3686kWh 30th Sept 23 to 29th Sept 24.
This is 10.1kWh per day average although it ranges from 7 to12 per day depending on washer and tumble dryer use.

MP1995

£1200 a year all electric 5 bed detached modern house EPC B, heat pump, no solar. House heated to 22oC through winter as in on as of last week. Circa 7200-7500kwh a year

Tariff Octopus Agile

Reed_Richards

macksmum said:

We heat our home with a wood pellet boiler and have no gas supply. We are two pensioners who use electric for cooking, lighting and appliances.  We rarely use fast food, preferring to cook from scratch for our main meal.  I only use the washing machine once a week and we only put lights on in the evening, one room only. We use 10km hours per day according to our smart meter. Is this about right? Thanks for any input you can give.

No, 10 kWh per day is a bit more than I would expect, based on what you report.  But what about your hot water; do you have tank with an immersion heater?  And could your fridge and/or freezer be old and inefficient?  Are all your light bulbs the LED type?  

Ildhund

Netexporter said:

I'm a single OAP, all electric apart from a woodburner, and use about 350kWh per month,

I'm a single OAP, all electric apart from a woodburner, and use about 85kWh per month on average. I don't have an EV. At current rates, I would pay £420 a year.

10kWh per day sounds an awful lot if there's no heating involved. What could possibly be using so much?

Netexporter

A fair chunk of mine is a dehumidifier constantly running in the shed. Without that I'd be about 5kWh per day, excluding EV.