How much electricity consumption is too much? Is my home OTT?

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Peter999_2 said:

My fridge/freezer uses slightly over 1kWh a day so your usage is about what I would expect.  9kWh while you are not there is actually very good if you are using 8kWh on just the fridge/freezers.

You are spending about £759.20 a year on your fridge/freezers.  Obviously if you run a farm and need them as part of that then that is fair enough but at least you now know roughly where your high usage comes from.

If you want to know exactly how much they are using you could buy these energy monitoring remote plugs -

 Tapo P110 (2-Pack) Smart Plug, WiFi Plug, Energy Monitoring, Electricity Usage Monitor, App Remote Control, Alexa Plug, Voice Control with Alexa & Google, Away Mode, Scheduling & Timer, Device Sharing : Amazon.co.uk: Computers & Accessories

This is what I use to check electric usage for devices.    I put one on my fridge and left it for a couple of months hence why I know that they use about 1kWh a day.

Great tips and info - thanks for your response! Will check out those devices too :-)

mmmmikey

Something else to check out is the water heating. A modern well insulated hot water cylinder might well lose of the order of 1kWh per day and you'd probably lose about the same again through any pipes, valves, etc. that are connected. So of your 9kWh per day when your not at home you could easily be losing 2kWh through water heating and possibly more than that.

By the way, I have a medium-ish sized fridge freezer in the kitchen that only uses 0.3kWh per day which wasn't silly money expensive and I bought for it's efficiency. I also have a medium-ish sized chest freezer in the garage whcih uses about the same so there is quite a bit of scope for reducing your usage.

molerat

A year or so ago my freezer died.  The new almost twice as large one is saving me 1 kWh per day !

XzavierWalnut

I live in a 4 bedroom detached vicarage built in 1904 which has 20 years old UPVC doors and windows, and feels very cold in the winter if the heating is not on.
I have gas central heating and there are 2 of us living there.
Y2024 consumption was 3924 kwh.
Jan 24 was highest month @ 576kwh.

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QrizB I've looked at our usage patterns for the past three days:

Spikes on 13th are washing machine, oven then dishwasher (in that order)

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Sorry, couldn't work out how to put all three images into one post, so seperate posts.

Spikes on 14th are washing machine, possibly toaster or blender, then hob or oven:

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Spikes on 15th are probably toaster, dishwasher, washing machine and oven:

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molerat said:

A year or so ago my freezer died.  The new almost twice as large one is saving me 1 kWh per day !

That'll be it then! Thanks for your insight :-)

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mmmmikey said:

Something else to check out is the water heating. A modern well insulated hot water cylinder might well lose of the order of 1kWh per day and you'd probably lose about the same again through any pipes, valves, etc. that are connected. So of your 9kWh per day when your not at home you could easily be losing 2kWh through water heating and possibly more than that.

By the way, I have a medium-ish sized fridge freezer in the kitchen that only uses 0.3kWh per day which wasn't silly money expensive and I bought for it's efficiency. I also have a medium-ish sized chest freezer in the garage whcih uses about the same so there is quite a bit of scope for reducing your usage.

Yeah - we need a new water cylinder as ours is pretty ancient, hopefully coming as part of the heat pump package. We will need to be more efficient with our fridge/freezer use I think. They are mostly quite old (except for the American-style one in the kitchen) and the ones in the garage are not properly packed, so we might be able to amalgamate and switch one off. Thanks for the info.

FreeBear

Currently running at 3-5kWh per day.

One fridge & a wine cooler, plus an old chest freezer to store my paper in. Quite a bit of home automation stuff & computers, although much of it is low power (still adds up though). LED lighting throughout which is advantageous as I'm often up very late.

Heating and hot water is supplied by a gas combi boiler, so that adds very little to overall electricity consumption.