My Energy use Diary

A_fiend_for_life

I've been a bit too relaxed with the gas this week I think but it has been colder than usual.:rolleyes:
I'm still on a 'C' thankfully.:jGonna try for a 'B' this week.

I'll soon be on ebico too so that will actually reduce how much I pay as there will be no standing charge :jI can't switch until I have paid this bill moneys tight so its a bit of a catch 22. The bills just arrived this morning and is waaay overestimate . So I need to give them the readings etc.


Edit: Rank = 22 / 47.

Readings below:

You have been taking readings for 8 weeks

Since you started measuring your total household -
Energy use is 380 kWh (Gas: 199kWh | Electricity: 181kWh)
Carbon emissions are 136 Kg CO2 (Gas: 41 Kg CO2 | Electricity: 95 Kg CO2)
Money Spent

How has my energy spend been calculated?

Last week you spent:

* £2.31 on gas
* £3.48 on electricity

Total you have spent on energy since starting imeasure (8 weeks ago):

* £6.98 on gas
* £21.72 on electricity

The result on my graph is quite scary as both electricity and gas are rising at the same time:eek: .

setmefree2

Curley wrote: »

Hi All,

Hope you don't mind me joining in. I submitted my first readings today so i've nothing to say at the moment. I'm kinda nervous about doing this!

Off to bed now for a cuddle with Bertie, my hot water bottle.

Curley.

Good Luck:T:T

SuiDreams

Gone back down from B to C, not good.

Frugaldom

SuiDreams wrote: »

Gone back down from B to C, not good.

Same here but I think it's to be expected if we want to survive winter and let's face it, we can hardly say we had a great summer. I think the only way to avoid slipping down the carbon rating is if you have oil-fired central heating, an open fire or solid fuel with a back boiler for hot water. None of these things count on here (yet?)
I wish I had a windmill, a woodburner and back boiler!

SuiDreams

No heating on yet either quite annoyingly not looking forward to seeing what the rating is once the heating pops on. Mind you its definately not going on before 1 october, I was hoping for 1 Nove here's hoping for a warm october.

CaroB_2

Hi all,

I've been following this thread with interest and joined up with i-measure a few weeks ago when it was first mentioned here. I (& my husband) live in a top-floor Victorian tenement flat and since I've moved in 2 years ago have aimed to keep our energy bills below that of the previous owners - they paid £30 a month for each. We're currently on £21 for electricity and £25 for gas although the gas is likely to increase in price soon as we've not really had a proper winter with our current supplier (last year they had us paying £33, at the end of the winter we were massively in credit so they dropped it to £3 a month and I've only just persuaded them to change it - no help with budgeting at all!). Unfortunately on i-measure there are only 6 households with two people living in a flat, but still it's useful to be able to compare. When I first joined we were only being compared with 2 others and our electricity was much higher than average which was slightly alarming! We're currently on a band C. We had our boiler replaced in May but have used it only once since then on a particularly cold evening when we had guests for dinner & didn't want them to freeze! So I have no idea how much gas we'll use over the winter.

Your Results in Detail


You have been taking readings for 8 weeks
Since you started measuring your total household -
Energy use is 357 kWh (Gas: 89kWh | Electricity: 268kWh)
Carbon emissions are 158 Kg CO2 (Gas: 18 Kg CO2 | Electricity: 140 Kg CO2)
Money Spent

Last week you spent:

• £0.39 on gas
• £3.48 on electricity

Total you have spent on energy since starting imeasure (8 weeks ago):

• £3.10 on gas
• £32.16 on electricity

Your results are being compared with the averages of 6 households.
Carbon emissions Kg CO2
Last weekLast MonthLast QuarterPer person9 (17)11 (14)0 (11)Per household17 (33)21 (28)0 (23)Gas use as kWh
Last weekLast MonthLast QuarterPer Person6 (34)7 (22)0 (15)Per Household11 (68)14 (43)0 (31)Electricity use as kWh
Last weekLast MonthLast QuarterPer Person15 (19)18 (18)0 (16)Per Household29 (37)36 (36)0 (31)

CaroB_2

Oooh, I just changed my settings to compare our results with all other households of the same number of occupants (48 households) and our rating is now a B, hooray!
I think I'll stick with the settings as they were though as this is more of a challenge...

Little_Mama

SuiDreams wrote: »

No heating on yet either quite annoyingly not looking forward to seeing what the rating is once the heating pops on. Mind you its definately not going on before 1 october, I was hoping for 1 Nove here's hoping for a warm october.

Hi Sui Dreams,

Well I got a right shock :eek: when I put on my Gas CH for only 20 mins to check the pipes, our daily usage went from 0.53 metric units the previous day to 1.11 metric units and the only thing I had done any differently was put on the heating for that short period of time....I was appalled.

As I don't have a conversion chart to hand I don't know exactly how many Kwh this is ......apart from way too many! But is will keep the mind focussed for 1st Nov...even if I'm wearing 20 jumpers and a duvet to keep me warm! :rotfl:

LM

A_fiend_for_life

Just got my SP bill for £112 and gave them my actual readings. New bill is £84 for 103 days. Had a check through my old bills, cant find September last year, which I am sure was £120. 2006 bill was £104.

Edit: I haven't got another bill below a hundred quid for here so its at least 3 years.

Currently cooking with electric:eek:, pay a standing charge:eek: and have no insulation:eek:, large single glaze sash windows:eek: in an end of row:eek:, high ceilinged:eek:, ground floor flat:eek:.


Mission move t'internet to bedroom radiator and stack loads of duvets over a gazebo:j:j. Or move to the bedroom at least.

Did a quick check on kilowatts per day then (Sept 2006) and now:

Elec.

2006: 5.35 per day ( 471 kWh / 88 days)

2008: 3.45 per day ( 355 kWh /103 days; 303 kWh based on 88 days)


Gas
2006: 14.23 per day (1252kWh / 88 days) :eek: (this was summer what was I thinking!?)

2008: 3.08 per day (317kWh / 103 days; 270 kWh based on 88 days)
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mama67

Nyk, I'm still on an "E" rating and we do have both oil heating and a coal fire.


Your Results in Detail


You have been taking readings for 6 weeks
Since you started measuring your total household -
Energy use is 814 kWh (Gas: 0kWh | Electricity: 814kWh)
Carbon emissions are 426 Kg CO2 (Gas: 0 Kg CO2 | Electricity: 426 Kg CO2)
Money Spent

How has my energy spend been calculated?
Last week you spent:

• £0.00 on gas
• £17.16 on electricity

Total you have spent on energy since starting imeasure (6 weeks ago):

• £0.00 on gas
• £97.65 on electricity

Carbon Emitted & Energy Used

The results in the tables for 'last month' and 'last quarter' are in terms of the weekly average. The tables give you information about your household (black numbers) in comparison to the average imeasure households you choose to be compared (red numbers).
You chose to compare your household with (Same number of occupants/All housetypes) - to change your comparison go into your user detail settings.
Your results are being compared with the averages of 31 households.
Carbon emissions Kg CO2
Last weekLast MonthLast QuarterPer person19 (16)18 (15)0 (12)Per household75 (66)73 (61)0 (48)Electricity use as kWh
Last weekLast MonthLast QuarterPer Person36 (21)35 (19)0 (15)Per Household143 (82)139 (78)0 (60)