My Energy use Diary

setmefree2

cw18 wrote: »

gas is down by 11kWh which is great (from 125 to 114) - and electricity is also down :T Only by 4kWh (from 66 to 62), but it's the right direction so I'm really pleased with this.

well done on that :T

Frugaldom

Still following the thread but not even trying to keep up with anyone as it's pointless for me. Home is work for us and that puts paid to any further daytime savings. We are already 'frugal' as far as power consumption is concerned, but it is giving me more of an idea about how much electricity is deductible expense for overheads/running costs. April should come in at just under £80 for the month, so I'm delighted at that.

setmefree2

nykmedia wrote: »

Still following the thread but not even trying to keep up with anyone as it's pointless for me. Home is work for us and that puts paid to any further daytime savings. We are already 'frugal' as far as power consumption is concerned, but it is giving me more of an idea about how much electricity is deductible expense for overheads/running costs. April should come in at just under £80 for the month, so I'm delighted at that.

Hi nykmedia,

Home is work for me and Mr SMF2 also (although Mr SMF2 travels away a lot). I also have 2 teenagers who are permanently plugged into something:eek:. For me energy saving is just about trying not to waste energy- trying to dry things outside, making sure lights aren't on when there is nobody in a room etc, etc. It would not possible for us to get really low readings but we can always improve:cool:

Well done on your April running costs:T

Frugaldom

Thanks SMF, I sometimes feel like I'm fighting a losing battle in the utilities stakes but we do our best to keep things under control. This is the year to date in the new place: It's set out as date, number of days, number of units consumed, average units per day, how much spent and then the average cost per unit, which changes because we are on a 3 rate meter system for the storage heating and off peak.

01/04/09 - 30/04/09 30 812 27 £ 87.00 - 10.71ppu
01/03/09 - 31/03/09 31 1216 39 £ 99.47 - 8.18ppu
01/02/09 - 28/02/09 28 1343 48 £104.56 - 7.78ppu

01/01/09 - 31/01/09 31 1733 56 £135.20 - 7.8ppu

Compared to last year, I'm doing not too badly in this house

12/01/08 - 07/04/08 87 7063 81 £539.14 - 7.63ppu
01/01/09 - 01/04/09 90 4292 47 £339.23 - 7.90ppu

Eco_Girl_2

I've just bought an electricity monitoring device from Ecotopia (sorry can't put a link in, but you can look them up). Looking forward to seeing what effect this has on out electricity consumption.

I also think that their remote control socket look good. They allow you to turn appliances off in inaccessible places. Behind my telly is a mass of wires and I can't reach the socket. Ecotopia sell these too.

setmefree2

nykmedia wrote: »

Compared to last year, I'm doing not too badly in this house

to that :T

setmefree2

Eco_Girl wrote: »

I've just bought an electricity monitoring device from Ecotopia (sorry can't put a link in, but you can look them up). Looking forward to seeing what effect this has on out electricity consumption.

with that Let us know how you get on....

Frugaldom

The last storage heater has now been switched off and hopefully DS won't switch it back on again! However, the weather is so cold and damp that I'm still burning my way through the log pile, so will end up needing to buy more logs this month! :rolleyes: Swings and roundabouts, but I suppose it's better to use an allegedly carbon neutral fuel source than crank up the electricity useage. I SHOULD be able to get down to £15 next week, as HS will be away on holiday and DS at work all week then away for the weekend. I could make it a mini-challenge, just for me (and the kettle, microwave, computer, incubators and chick brooders. :rotfl:)

belfastgirl23

Well would you believe I was a C last week I went back to check about four times and it was true. The bizarre thing was though that I'd used pretty much the same amount of gas and elec as the previous week so I'm not sure how that worked.

Anyway this week is less good. DH left the heating on for SEVEN hours when we were out on Friday night. Of course we got in at 2am and went straight to bed so we didn't even get any good of it :rolleyes:. Anyway this means 300kwh probably half of which were avoidable. Electric was slightly higher than usual 73kwh. So I'm expecting to be back to a D...

chivers1977

Plugged in this weeks figures. Up on last week but have pressure washed for hours in past few days to try and find the real colour of my paving :rotfl:

Last week also worse for badges. Am B for all users and C for mid terrace with children. Gone down to 16th from 7th. Whoops! Need to keep a better eye on it. I blame it on hoovering. Need to keep the house dirty:rotfl:

Changed to gas/electric mid terrace house for comparison and have changed to B! aah feel better now :T:T