My Energy use Diary

GetRealBabe

Hi

I've started to turn my pc and router off a night. Will monitor for two weeks and report back.:)

GRB

cw18

Despite an increase in my gas last week I still managed 2 'C' badges (albeit back to the 'D' side of both).

Readings this week show electricity up by 9kWh (highest for 3 weeks), but gas back down - last week saw an increase of 114kWh, this week it's dropped by 92kWh.

Household CO2 for last week was 73kg, this is week is just 60kg - so I'm hoping this is the start of the decrease over the warmer months

A_fiend_for_life

Last weeks use put me on 10th and got an A for all users and B for low rise flats.

This week I used 11 kWh of gas and 15 kWh of electricity.

I did another batch of pasta but soaking first but it is hard to measure how much energy it saved as the meter only reports whole units.

cw18

Bah! Humbug!

Just checked badges for last week. Retained my 'C' against my comparison group, but according to i-measure I've dropped to a 'D' against all users

My spreadsheet gives me a 'C', but the formula is a 'quick and dirty' one based on info from i-measure as to how the badges are allocated - and I'm actually right on the boundary of a C/D, so it's clearly to do with roundings.

I'm dreading to think where I'll be after DS moves out for Uni - I can't see useage halving (fingers crossed for 10-15% saving at the most, judging by readings when he's away), so I can see me being one of those right at the bottom of the table who helps everyone else get really good ratings

tori.k

we have a rise this week, 96 units for the week an extra 16 units on last week.
I think the kids have had there xboxs on outside the times we have agreed and i done a bit of cooking for the freezer, but they're back to school today

I know a bit how you feel Cw18 no matter how many units we save being in Cornwall we pay over the odds for everything (my online tarrif is set at almost 11p a unit compare to East midlands 7p a unit for the same tarrif)

Plus side i wouldn't be anywhere else in the world, downside i can't see my kids being able to move out this side of them turning 30

JennyR68

I had an extra 23 units this week, been colder and the girls had some friends over for a couple of nights so extra strain on the hot water. I wish the weather would settle so I could switch the heating off!

Have a D on comparison group for last week and a C on all users.

Bluefire

Big drop for us last week, not sure where it came from but it's definitely welcome - for the first time ever our total energy use for the week cost us less than £10!

90kwh usage for gas which is less than half of the week before, and 38 kwh for electricity which is a drop of just over 1/5. The only thing that's really changed has been my purchase of a carpet sweeper, which is good not only for saving energy but it actually works better than our hoover!

setmefree2

To recap - we have a BG tarriff for our energy fixed in 2005! This runs out at the end of this month :eek: BG have offered us another fix until Apr 2012 - it's a tad more than all their current tarriffs so I've decided to go with the fix.

..... but any tarriff is going to be a massive financial shock for us. All tarriffs look at least double what we are currently paying:eek:.

Lots of energy belt tighting for us I think and lets hope we have a nice warm summer and winter:D

Still half price energy for the next 9 days:)

THRIFTY_GIRL

setmefree2 wrote: »

Lots of energy belt tighting for us I think and lets hope we have a nice warm summer and winter:D

Still half price energy for the next 9 days:)

Looks like you fixed well in 2005. Fingers crossed too for more warm weather:T. We have had 2 weeks of sub £20 bills which I'm rather pleased with.

cw18

Readings for this week just processed.

Gas continues to drop - down from 148kWh last week to 125kWh this week (this week last year is also showing as 125kWh in my spreadsheet)

Electricity only down 2kWh (from 59 to 57), but I was half expecting this to have gone up as I had my pressure washer running for the best part of a couple of hours on Sunday. And my records show useage for this week last year as 66kWh, so a significant reduction against that

CO2 calculations for the week show a drop from 60kg last week to just 54kg this week - so a 10% reduction overall :T
(iMeasure shows me as having a 60kg figure for this week last year, so a 10% reduction against that as well)