how much electric do you use a day

goral

myozone wrote: »

Depends A LOT on parasitic loads , SKY+ box cell, phone charger/s and things on standby :mad:

Our use as sig:A

Electronic equipment should be switch off as less as possible.
You save PA around £20 but you spend four times more for repair them...
Standby is not only for your comfort! 70% benefit of standby is for save electronic in your SKY+ box, TV, PC(!) and many others.

pjapk

http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/ makes some interesting reading if you have the time to wade through it all.

Paul

medway29

Ive just had key meters put in yesterday and in the past 24 hours it has used up £4.oo does this sound right? I live on my own in a 2 bed house?!?

Thanks in advance

LittleMissAspie

I don't know what a key meter is but we spend about £20-25 a month on electricity for 2 people in a one-bed house. We have electric shower but gas cooker.

medway29

Its a prepayment meter It will work out im paying about £3o a week for one person in 2 bed end of terrace house gas heating n water electric shower and cooker, sounds very steep to me as other people are paying about 5 - £1o a week in a flat

basmic

12.50 units/KwH each day. This costs about £418 every year, with Scottish Power's Online Energy Saver 4 tariff.

medway29

Well apprently my tariff is at 13.12 kwh and since it was installed yesterday at 3pm ive used 2o.61 kw and £4.33 has come off thats in 27 hours

basmic

medway29 wrote: »

Well apprently my tariff is at 13.12 kwh and since it was installed yesterday at 3pm ive used 2o.61 kw and £4.33 has come off thats in 27 hours

Ouch, £26.95/week or £3.85/day! :eek:

moonrakerz

Mid May to now: 8.65 kWh per day.

Lots of domestic electrical appliances. Leave PC all the time, sky box etc left on standby - what a sinner I am !!

scarletjim

4 points from me.

1. Lots of talk on this thread about getting electrical savings in perspective etc - so does anyone know roughly what each of the following would cost?

10 x 80w normal bulbs on for say 8 hours per day
10 x same but with energy-saving bulbs
10 x assorted electricals (TV, monitor, PC, skybox etc) on for 8 hours per day
10 x items above on standby for other 16 hours per day
Overnight heating for an average size water tank
2 x Overnight storage heating on high end setting (say 7 or 8 out of 10 setting)
Etc (anything else significant that you can think of.

2. Similar question, do people know what the main drivers of electrical costs are? What about short duration use things like a microwave or washing machine?

3. Anyway, my numbers over the last 6 months are as follows:

Total 21 kwh per day
Day - 7 kwh
Night - 14 kwh

4. Do my night readings sound unreasonably high? My water heats up over night, but could the settings be wrong, could it be heating up for more hours than is necessary for example? I've never looked at it myself, the bloke who fitted it set it all up and I've never touched it...