My Energy use Diary

THRIFTY_GIRL

tori.k wrote: »

decided to look at it this way this week spend is £14.90 so that £2.98 per person :rotfl:

Love it!!! you are doing better than us then.......Our spend is around £22 for 4 of us, relatively speaking that's double your spend per person but 2/3 of last week so I think we're doing ok...just.:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

setmefree2

JennyR68 wrote: »

Good morning, very happy to report a drop of 21% this week.

Even better is the drop in the bill of 27%, lovely new meter :j

:T:T:T:T Fantastic

setmefree2

THRIFTY_GIRL wrote: »

Morning all energy savers. We are also delighted to say that gas consumption is 650kwh this week down from 928kwh (a drop of 30% or £7.50!!).

:T:T:T:T Fantastic

A_fiend_for_life

Quite a decrease this week. 20 kWh of electricity and 45 kWh of gas. A double C for last week and no so in the carbon club. Good to see it going down again.

Got a bill of £119 for 90 days. This is a pound more than the same time last year. For the last 90 days I used 244 kWh of electrcicity and 2323 kWh of gas.

Just before I put the heating on in November my annual use was 1,500 kWh I think. It has now jumped to 3,096 kWh. Electricity is 936 kWh a year. Annual price jumped from a low of around £220 a year in autum to less than £250 a year now.

Carbon is now 1,136 kg a year. It was below a 1,000 kg for eight weeks in autumn.

Bluefire

Hello fellow energy savers! I'm a long time lurker, but thought it was about time I said hello & started posting my results. I started recording our meter readings on the 6th of February, which is also about the time I started taking on board ways we could save energy & cut down our bills. (Currently we pay £93 DD for duel fuel)

Since then I've taught myself how to reprogram the CH & cut down the amount of times we hit that 'boost' button, tried to cook more efficiently through using the microwave more instead of the hob & putting our slow cooker to good use, switched from using the desktop computer to my laptop & become obsessed with making sure everything is unplugged when not in use, in particular the wireless router & anything that's on charge. I'm also wrapping myself up warmer as I'm home all day & refuse to put the heating on (I've even fetched out my black fleecy poncho that I take to festivals - I look like a jedi wandering around the house!) and have finally managed to make our bed warmer at night so that we have no need for electric blankets. I read a tip on MSE that putting a duvet under your bottom sheet works wonders, and that combined with a fleecy bed throw from Primark has made it twice as warm, not to mention super snuggly & comfy!

The last big change is that I've started taking advantage of the lovely warm showers at the swimming pool & washing my hair there instead of home, which should hopefully compensate for the 30 minute showers my OH takes, all with the fan heater in the bathroom running throughout, beforehand & afterwards whilst he gets dressed! This has now been turned down to minimum so it doesn't activate as much - he has yet to notice, nor has he noticed the CH timings have changed! The fan heater in the bedroom has been packed away in the wardrobe and it truly is a case of 'out of sight, out of mind' - he's only bothered to fetch it out once, I think putting it on is habit more than anything else.

Anyway, all of this has resulted in our usage going down from 512kwh of gas a week to 271kwh, and 62kwh electric to 46kwh. We're currently a C on imeasure. I'd like to get the gas down some more, I've stopped it coming on in the mornings now the weather is milder so hopefully that will show up in next weeks readings.

Apologies for the essay! (I wonder how much electric I used writing all that...?) :rotfl:

annie123

Lurker here but just had to post, for the first time since I started in August with Imeasure and the mse carbon club.. I'm 32nd out of 57:D

Now that might not sound much, but I've always been 40+ of 57.
It feels sometimes like I walking round after 2 kids turning stuff off, or the heating down, not a 20 year old DD and and a 'still this side of 50' hubby!

Had major nag last weekend due to other large bills due in over the next few weeks and it's worked, a long way to go but it's a start:)

cw18

Two 'C' badges for last weeks readings, which I'm more than happy with as my electricity had gone up and my gas wasn't down by much.

Readings this week show a meagre 2kWh drop in electricity, and a staggering 33% (80kWh) drop in gas Not surprised the electricity isn't down by more than that though, as I had my drill out for a while (making raised beds for my f&v) and also had my pressure washer out for a short while (until it broke down, but replacement from manufacturer - still under warranty - arrived yesterday..... so that will be back out this coming weekend, weather permitting)

tori.k

I had a shock this morning...the asbestos workmen i had in yesterday managed to wack up 29 units of electricity with there blow fan thingy on all day...

JennyR68

Whoa! That must be one powerful fan thingy!

I'm expecting another sizeable drop this week if the weather stays this warm! Our unheated bedroom didn't drop below 19.5 last night!

JennyR68

Just had a cunning plan, don't know why I didn't think of it before!

I always read my meter at 7.30am, why I started then instead of a more civilised time I know not but at least it gets me out of bed on a Monday morning to do the imeasure read! :rotfl:

So my Minim monitor didn't really bear any relation to 'my' daily/weekly reads 7.30 -7.30 and I'd never quite got my head round how to work out it's margin of error properly. So I've reset the clock to have the day start at 7.30 instead of midnight and ta, da! it's now showing what I've used today since 7.30am. Which so far is accurate, will be interesting to see at which point it goes adrift. Was out by 4 units yesterday.

I found my wee diary again btw so in celebration doing daily reads till the weekend, then I'll stop. Yesterday was the lowest of year so far at 35kwh