My Energy use Diary

cw18

thanks -- will check out those heaters


Our electricity bill is about to go through the roof! At the moment our supplier wants about £65/month from us as I was well in credit -- but I left it at £72.50 as I knew we were likely to need the heating more this winter (due to DH's health problems)

But we've just had a plug in oxygen machine delivered -- which I'm told costs about 3p/hour to run (dont' know what figures they base that on) and he's apparently been told to use it for a minimum of 6 hours a day !!! Gulp !!!

But the good news is we get refunded at that rate, calculated by a meter on the machine that shows how many hours it's been used for. And the really good news is that they can pay it directly to our energy supplier, which means I won't have as hard a time accounting for it as money in against money out for the benefits agencies (have to live off redundancy pay from the 27th of this month, as it's too much to let us get means tested benefits)

Ben84

matty2767 wrote: »

you can use certain low energy bulbs with dimmers. i know megaman do them although i dont know how good they are.

They're very good, I have a couple of them at home.

You can also use energy saving bulbs and regular bulbs in the same fixture.

kbarty

I can't remember if it was this thread I posted on but it seems as good a place as any to say how I've done with our energy use reduction.

Started in June this year monitoring so have had one full quarters bill come through where we've been doing our stuff. Compared to last years figures we've reduced our gas by about a 1/4 and our electricity use has halved! I'm really pleased as we're going into winter in credit for the first time ever I think and also our DD has gone down to £14 a month from £40 for electric.

I'd like to get better with the gas use, but really our pilot light uses a fair bit on its own so I'm not sure how I'll do. My aim for the next quarter is to reduce both by a third from last years readings.

Good luck to everyone with their energy reducing!

A_fiend_for_life

Oh dear reduced gas from 17 to 16 units this week. I thought I would keep it to a unit a day or there abouts. Those kilowatts are flying up now.

Still on a D - 30 /61.

Had a look at some stuff on carbon emissions and apparently we need to get emissions down to 2 tonnes of CO2 per person per year. I'm not sure if I can do that on gas and electricity yet never mind food miles, clothes, transport etc. I am on 372kg for gas and electricity after 15 weeks so don't know what I'll be on come end of July something to look at.

Here's this weeks results:

You have been taking readings for 15 weeks

Since you started measuring your total household -
Energy use is 1,234 kWh (Gas: 864kWh | Electricity: 370kWh)
Carbon emissions are 372 Kg CO2 (Gas: 178 Kg CO2 | Electricity: 194 Kg CO2)

Money Spent

Last week you spent:

* £6.20 on gas
* £3.60 on electricity

Total you have spent on energy since starting imeasure (15 weeks ago):

* £30.24 on gas
* £44.40 on electricity

Carbon emissions Kg CO2
...............Last week..Last Month..Last Quarter
Per person.....52 (41)....39 (36).....26 (27)
Per household..52 (109)...39 (95).....26 (68)

Gas use as kWh
...............Last week..Last Month..Last Quarter
Per Person.....177 (130)..119 (110)...64 (69)
Per Household..177 (338)..119 (283)...64 (169)

Electricity use as kWh
...............Last week..Last Month..Last Quarter
Per Person.....30 (28)....27 (26).....24 (23)
Per Household..30 (76)....27 (70).....24 (63)

A_fiend_for_life

Dobiesmon wrote: »

Hi
how do you ( into i-measure ) has someone got a link please do you just put your reading in and it tells you how much you spend per week.

Hi dobiesmon,

You can register with imeasure here:

http://www.imeasure.org.uk

Enter your details then go to the 'meter readings' page.

cw18

A_fiend_for_life wrote: »

Had a look at some stuff on carbon emissions and apparently we need to get emissions down to 2 tonnes of CO2 per person per year. I'm not sure if I can do that on gas and electricity yet never mind food miles, clothes, transport etc. I am on 372kg for gas and electricity after 15 weeks so don't know what I'll be on come end of July something to look at.

372kg over 15 weeks is just under 25kg/week...... by my reckoning that puts us very close on a per person basis

Mine says....
You have been taking readings for 7 weeks
Since you started measuring your total household - Carbon emissions are 404 Kg CO2
So mine averages just under 58kg/week for a 3 person household, or just over 19kg per person per week. But I would imagine a multi-person household is generally going to look better than a single person, as I only have to cook once for us, heat the water once, and though I may have a larger house I only have to heat the living areas once......
So your figure looks pretty reasonable to me, as I know I've been working hard to cut back on our usage !!!


(overnight my carbon club rating has changed from 49/60 to 17/61 -- wonder if this is still the glitch doing it's thing, or whether they're doing something to fix it )

setmefree2

setmefree2 wrote: »

hello all:hello:

I'm still trying to line dry - put a load of washing out this morning. Had to use my TD yesterday.:o

Anyone else still trying to line dry?

All the Best

SMF2

Yesterday's line drying went well. Did 2 loads of washing and they only needed about 10 minutes each in TD:j. Planning on trying to line dry a white wash today.:D

setmefree2

Little_Mama wrote: »

Am forced to use the TD sometimes when we run out of school uniforms.:oLM

School uniforms are the ultimate challenge:p

setmefree2

kbarty wrote: »

Compared to last years figures we've reduced our gas by about a 1/4 and our electricity use has halved! I'm really pleased as we're going into winter in credit for the first time ever I think and also our DD has gone down to £14 a month from £40 for electric.

Brilliant - well done:j:j:j

Good Luck:D

Little_Mama

setmefree2 wrote: »

School uniforms are the ultimate challenge:p

Especially when I have muck-magnets for children!