Shower - High Electricity Usage ?

jmcdyre

Hi folks,

We're in the process of reducing our electricity usage and just worked out that our shower uses around 0.17 kwh per minute. Does that seem high? There's 2 of us living here and say two showers a day of around 10 minutes each is 3.4 kwh per day.

Am I missing something, I tested it by having nothing else turned on and just ran the shower for 1 minute, is this enough to get an accurate figure?

I was wondering why our leccy usage seemed high still.

elastic_trickery

At 0.17 per min your shower is a 10.2kW model.

0.17kw x 60 mins = 10.2kw

Electric showers are fixed loads. When they are switched to thier high setting they will consume what's stated on the rating plate.

So if you have a 10.2kw shower and pay 10p per unit (kwh) of electricity it costs £1.02 to have it on for one hour.

DGJsaver

elastic_trickery wrote: »

At 0.17 per min your shower is a 10.2kW model.

0.17kw x 60 mins = 10.2kw

Electric showers are fixed loads. When they are switched to thier high setting they will consume what's stated on the rating plate.

So if you have a 10.2kw shower and pay 10p per unit (kwh) of electricity it costs £1.02 to have it on for one hour.

£1.02 for an hour loong nice hot shower
sounds like a bargain for some reason !

jmcdyre

lol thanks for replies.

We're with Npower at the minute so it's 21p an hour outside of economy 7!

Might go to work dirty.

Cardew

jmcdyre wrote: »

lol thanks for replies.

We're with Npower at the minute so it's 21p an hour outside of economy 7!

Might go to work dirty.

I bet you it ain't!

Did you mean a kWh costs 21p "outside of economy 7"?

That seems high even for a primary unit!

jmcdyre

well 20.87p (exc vat) for first god knows how many units, then the next at 12.49p.

Not sure how they work it out so I work it out on worst case that they're all 20.87p lol which is quite wrong by the looks of it.

notbritishgas

Cardew wrote: »

I bet you it ain't!

Did you mean a kWh costs 21p "outside of economy 7"?

That seems high even for a primary unit!

Cardew, I know you are aware of ripoff npower ,very high regional prices is just another scam. I currently pay 24.18p inc vat on primary units, I am on E7 in East Mids.

Cardew

notbritishgas wrote: »

Cardew, I know you are aware of ripoff npower ,very high regional prices is just another scam. I currently pay 24.18p inc vat on primary units, I am on E7 in East Mids.

If you look at his post he said "so it's 21p an hour " that's why I said "it ain't!!"

penrhyn

I must be doing something wrong, I'm paying:
East Midlands Region General Domestic tariff 10.78p per KWh (inc VAT) Economy 7 tariff day: 13.17p per KWh (inc VAT) night: 4.47p per KWh (inc VAT)

Ask me nicely and I tell you who its with, Clue: their prices went up on April 1st, and the prices are the same no matter how much juice you use.

I suspect these 20 odd pence units are the ones that pay for the "No standing Charge" x number of units.
Still and hour to wait before Doctor Who is on, ho hum.

jmcdyre

sorry folks, I didn't mean to type per hour, it's per kwh

jmcdyre

penrhyn wrote: »

Ask me nicely and I tell you who its with, Clue: their prices went up on April 1st, and the prices are the same no matter how much juice you use.

Who is it then, please tell lol