My Energy use Diary

Decola

Last week I spent:
£1.54 on gas (44kwh)
£2.16 on electricity (18kwh)

Total spent on energy since starting imeasure (6 weeks ago):
£12.41 on gas
£15.24 on electricity

TITEASCRAMP

Pretty high week for us with the leccy. It was a surprise though everyone is home, and telly (Plasma) is constantly being left on.

Family of 3
Last week you spent:

• £4.66 on gas 12kWh
• £6.96 on electricity 58 kWh

Total you have spent on energy since starting imeasure (10 weeks ago):

• £38.39 on gas
• £65.16 on electricity

belfastgirl23

Well I'm still an E but my energy use was down considerably this week, unsurprisingly since we were away for 3 days...but we have had the heating on a lot more the other days since it has been very cold. This leaves me 28/47 which is a nice change from being paddy last. Gas use down by 120kwh to 559kwh and elec use 62kwh, which is around average but to be expected since I did a lot of baking before i left....and we've been watching a lot more tv than usual. I'm expecting reads to go up considerably next week, we are in the middle of another cold snap and we are both getting over colds. And both off work so worth it!

Hope you all had good Christmases!

Little_Mama

While it's the festive season I've decided to 'ingore' those readings and really grapple back down to things come 5th Jan when it's back to normality.........just hoping that one of the big 6 will make a bold move & cut some prices......now that'd be nice for 2009.

Frugaldom

Hello meter-minders Hope you all had a great Christmas and will not scrimp too much on the new year warm cheer

Meter readings for me this week on i-measure report that I'm 21/47 in the carbon club - where has everyone else gone? I still don't have my carbon rating, that should start next week for the new address.

Anyway, it has been extremely cold here, so the storage heaters have been boosting at weird times throughout the day (it's all controlled remotely by Scottish Power and their weather forecasting system). There was also a heap of extra cooking going on for Christmas, same goes for this coming week for new year, so i-measure reckons:

Last week you spent:

• £0.00 on gas
• £44.88 on electricity

As I'm on a prepayment meter with 3 rates, I know the above figure doesn't correspond to what I am paying; I actually spent £30.17 but I have hot water every day and heaters on in all the rooms for that. My average unit cost is working out at about 8p per kwh and that's taking into account the standing charge and vat. I think I like my new system, as the same level of heating in the old house would have cost at least double that.

greenbee

I'm not paying much attention to the ratings and rankings on imeasure, as I'm sure that as the site is a beta, and it's a PhD project, there will be lots of errors for a bit. However, I'm also updating my account with my supplier and am VERY pleased by the fact that I'm over £90 in credit on electricity and over £120 on gas ... at this stage of the year, I'd expect this to be going down as I'm only paying £19/month.

Your Results in Detail


You have been taking readings for 24 weeks
Since you started measuring your total household -
Energy use is 4,093 kWh (Gas: 3,213kWh | Electricity: 880kWh)
Carbon emissions are 1,122 Kg CO2 (Gas: 662 Kg CO2 | Electricity: 460 Kg CO2)
Money Spent

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

• £2.73 on gas
• £4.08 on electricity

Total you have spent on energy since starting imeasure (24 weeks ago):

• £112.45 on gas
• £105.60 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 (All users/Semi-detached house) - to change your comparison go into your user detail settings.
Your results are being compared with the averages of 66 households.
Carbon emissions Kg CO2
Last weekLast MonthLast QuarterPer person34 (45)93 (49)65 (42)Per household34 (137)93 (148)65 (126)Gas use as kWh
Last weekLast MonthLast QuarterPer Person78 (148)277 (166)202 (136)Per Household78 (443)277 (497)202 (403)Electricity use as kWh
Last weekLast MonthLast QuarterPer Person34 (28)69 (28)45 (27)Per Household34 (88)69 (87)45 (83)

matty2767

worst week so far for us but been entertaining over xmas. also borrowed a wirless elec meter from work and we were hitting £1/hr of elec use when bothovens were on. hoover is also bad, so bad i intend to reduce the amount of cleaning i do.

for comparison our yearly usage is

2006 elec 2780Kwh, gas 16343Kwh
2007 elec 3028Kwh, gas 13990Kwh
2008 elec 2333Kwh, gas 13768Kwh

Penny2myName

MoneySaving Carbon Club 42/48 and third week on a C rating:j

Money Spent

How has my energy spend been calculated?

Last week you spent:

* £22.09 on gas
* £13.44 on electricity

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

* £285.00 on gas
* £136.56 on electricity

(All users/All housetypes)
Your results are being compared with the averages of 223 households

Carbon emissions Kg CO2
Last week Last Month Last Quarter
Per person 47 (55) 46 (62) 40 (49)
Per household 189 (148) 186 (179) 161 (137)

Gas use as kWh
Last week Last Month Last Quarter
Per Person 158 (175) 168 (187) 145 (146)
Per Household 631 (443) 670 (473) 581 (366)

Electricity use as kWh
Last week Last Month Last Quarter
Per Person 28 (36) 23 (45) 20 (36)
Per Household 112 (108) 91 (155) 79 (117)

cw18

I think my kids would officially count me as "sad" if they'd seen me this morning..... I've been clock-watching for 2 hours, until it got closer to the time I normally read my meters :rolleyes2

Our electricity use is lower this week (80kWh against 87kWh last week), which I think shows how much elder DS is using (he headed off to spend a couple of weeks with friends on Saturday, so no laptop or XBox running 24/7 since early that morning).

But our gas is up from 207kWh to 265kWh :eek: However this is still less than the previous week at 276kWh (and the one before that at 288kWh), so I'm not going to panic tooooo much unless there's another substantial increase next week

Like last week, the increase in one seems to have been offset by the decrease in the other as we've managed to maintain our 'C' rating


Last week you spent:

• £8.93 on gas (s/sheet figure = £9.27)
• £9.60 on electricity (s/sheet figure = £8.76)

Total you have spent on energy since starting imeasure (14 weeks ago):

• £79.49 on gas (s/sheet figure = £87.31)
• £132.12 on electricity (s/sheet figure = £120.95)

Against all gas/electric households our results are......

Carbon emissions Kg CO2
........................Last week......Last Month......Last Quarter
Per Person............47 (55)...........46 (62)...........38 (49)
Per Household......94 (147)...........93 (179).........77 (137)

Gas use as kWh
........................Last week......Last Month......Last Quarter
Per Person..........127 (175).........125 (187).........86 (146)
Per Household.....255 (442).........249 (473)........171 (366)

Electricity use as kWh
........................Last week......Last Month......Last Quarter
Per Person...........40 (36)..........39 (45)............39 (36)
Per Household......80 (108).........79 (155)..........79 (117)


We're now showing as 32/48 in the Carbon Club. Last week was 34/52, and the week before was 43/56 -- so it's got me wondering if people have given up on entering figures Seems a shame if they have

lingojingo

Well we are still a C rating, currently 22/48 and our usage is very similar to last week. Although we went down south for Christmas, we left lights on timers and heating on low for our cat (looked after by neighbours, but stayed in her own home) and it has been very cold here so heating had to work harder, so although noe cooking done for 5 days it hasn't affected our gas usage much.
Here's our breakdown ;


Last week you spent:

• £14.28 on gas
• £7.68 on electricity

Total you have spent on energy since starting imeasure (23 weeks ago):

• £149.24 on gas
• £162.36 on electricity

edited after catching up on thread, to say our electricity usage shot up last January when we had a built-in fan oven installed in the new kitchen. While it is much more reliable than the old one it does seem to gobble up the electricity!