My Energy use Diary

belfastgirl23

Thanks for the thought but technically I can still go down if more people join - I could be 60/60!

gazza975526570

:rotfl:Good luck!!

belfastgirl23 wrote: »

Thanks for the thought but technically I can still go down if more people join - I could be 60/60!

adiwood

Not a good week due to the really cold weather and Im off work today feeling really ill so got the heater on more. Been in bed all morning with a horrible migraine so wont be on here long.

My carbon emissions has shot up from 35 - 65, but its so cold I have to have the heater on more. to keep it about 16/17 degrees.

Heres mine:

Last week you spent:

• £0.00 on gas
• £15.96 on electricity

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

• £0.00 on gas
• £56.64 on electricity

2 bedroomed flat with just me but all ,my heating is electric.

adiwood

Decola wrote: »

Last week you spent:
£2.31 on gas (66 kwh) - 18.9 kwh a week of which is wasted on the boiler pilot light.

£2.52 on electricity (21 kwh).

How on earth do you manage that!! :eek:

A_fiend_for_life

oh dear this is my worst week so far 54/57 . I'm on an E and with 64 kilos of CO2 last week. I've got the windows open at the moment for airing despite the cold weather.Temperature is just below 10C. Going to try and be a bit braver this week. Had some friends round on monday and tuesday so the heating was on all evening and through the night. Still relatively low compared to last year though.

Energy use is 1,857 kWh (Gas: 1,396kWh | Electricity: 461kWh)
Carbon emissions are 529 Kg CO2 (Gas: 288 Kg CO2 | Electricity: 241 Kg CO2)

• £8.16 on gas
• £3.72 on electricity

Total you have spent on energy since starting imeasure (18 weeks ago):

• £48.86 on gas
• £55.32 on electricity

Carbon emissions Kg CO2
Last week Last Month Last Quarter
Per person 64 (47) 52 (44) 34 (33)
Per household 64 (123) 52 (113) 34 (85)

Gas use as kWh
Last week Last Month Last Quarter
Per Person 233 (157) 177 (141) 101 (96)
Per Household 233 (402) 177 (359) 101 (242)

Electricity use as kWh
Last week Last Month Last Quarter
Per Person 31 (29) 30 (28) 26 (25)
Per Household 31 (78) 30 (76) 26 (68)

Decola

adiwood wrote: »

How on earth do you manage that!! :eek:

Well I'm not heating my home at the moment - so the evening temp is around 10-14c, wrapping up warm in lots of layers and using a hot water bottle for heat if I get cold.

Lighting is all from economy bulbs - 2x11w in the room I'm using most, and I'm switching them off if I'm leaving a room for more than an hour or so.

Cooking - veg is done in an electric steamer, which runs for about 20 mins a day, and meat is done on one gas ring on the hob - so pretty economical to run.

Washing clothes is all being done in a cold wash with a mix of cheap bio liquid, washing soda, and white vinegar in the final rinse, and all comes out clean and fresh. Drying is done on an outside line when possible, or in the conservatory with plenty of ventilation if it's too wet outside. I've stopped using a tumble drier.

Washing up is also being done cold. Only problem there is that some fats congeal, but again, washing soda and detergent works well.

The only hot water I'm using is for a shower once a day, for which I use the gas central heating boiler - leaving it on for about 40 minutes in total to heat the tank of water. I turned the pilot light off last night having discovered it wasting too much gas and giving no heat into the room in return - so will have to reignite it for use once a day - just like lighting the gas ring.

My 'luxury' is the pc - a desktop that uses just under 100w with the screen on high brightness for watching a movie, down to 75w for normal surfing. I turn it all off when I'm not actually sat in front of it now, which I never used to do.

There are good reasons why I'm living like this at the moment - I'm not a masochist:D

For comparison, I found some records of gas and electric consumption from when I didn't have to economise - one very cold week in Jan 07. I used 558kwh of gas (last week was 66), and 108kwh of electricity (last week was 21).

adiwood

Thank you Decola for that information. Has given me quite a few ideas to reduce my bill now. Going to try and get it down this week! :T

SuiDreams

Gas and electric sky high this week 282kwh gas and 63kwh electric. This is maininly due to the bitter cold weather we have had this week, we've also had a lot of meals cooked in the oven so that has increased the electric useage quite a bit. We'll see if we can cut back at all this week (to be honest we really really need to.

Little_Mama

I'm not doing i-measure but I am keeping a track on the Eon energy tracker and when I popped in last month's figures our gas was an average of 20kwh per day when it was 75kwh a day average for the same month last year and for electric it's 7kwh instead of 10 last year.

I should say though that we are buying logs for the fire but have only spent about £50 so for on a half load plus firelighters and kindling....oh and an odd sack of logs becuase we ran out before the delivery. Do need to sort out one to see us over Xmas but it's cheap in comparison to the cost of gas ch.

Once again I'd really not have been looking at this so closely if it wasn't for this thread so thanks again.

Do all keep warm though it's meant to be a tad unpleasant over the next few days.

LM

greenbee

This has been my highest usage week so far since signing up to imeasure. I had my mother to stay from Wednesday evening until today, and my Dad was here on Sunday night, and I had Thurs/Fri/today as leave. So as well as having the heating on for more hours a day, it's been in more rooms (spare room) more regularly (I don't always heat the sitting room on weekday evenings). There has also been more cooking, washing up, showers, coffee-making and hot-water bottle making going on!

I am also in the process of having my utility room redone (new plastic window, new floor with damp-proof membrane, latex screed & terracotta tiles, walls plasterboarded with reflective insulation in cavity and SOMETHING done to insulate the concrete roof, although we're not sure what yet, so suggestions welcome...) and we've started the drying out process this week, so the electric heater (100w) has been on quite a bit. However, no WM/TD/DW/MW...

Last week you spent:

• £11.24 on gas
• £6.24 on electricity

Total you have spent on energy since starting imeasure (20 weeks ago):

• £73.67 on gas
• £72.72 on electricity

Dehumidifier went on in the utility room today, so that may well put the electricity up further. Scarily, the weekly gas usage is more than my monthly DD (luckily I'm about £100 in credit on gas alone at the moment), and although there may be some days when I don't get home until late, so don't put it on in the evenings, I can't see it being considerably less between now and March.