My Energy use Diary

irishwexford

Interesting what you found about fan oven using power. I have been reading meters for the past four weeks and the week I pre-cooked roast potatoes, parsnips and other things my electricity readings had shot up whilst my gas had gone down. Still used dishwasher and drier as normal so the fan oven is costing too much to run. I am using slow cooker now and will use top oven only when I have to. I am thinking of getting a remoska in a few months to save energy. I found a link on here to a site for a university energy watch. I have registered my readings and they will remind me by email each week to read meters and compare mine to others with similar property. I am also awaiting delivery of a free monitor from Daily Mail. Now I know what is costing the most I can do something about it.

A_fiend_for_life

Happy new year hope you've all had a great christmas.

I've been away so the results are way lower. Currently sitting on a B and 21 / 52. I had too much food to use up so couldn't switch the fridge off so will need to try this coming week.

Spend for last week was 60p for electricity and offsets some of the cost of travel over christmas.


You have been taking readings for 22 weeks

Since you started measuring your total household -
Energy use is 2,422 kWh (Gas: 1,883kWh | Electricity: 539kWh)
Carbon emissions are 670 Kg CO2 (Gas: 388 Kg CO2 | Electricity: 282 Kg CO2)

Money Spent

How has my energy spend been calculated?

Last week you spent:

* £0.00 on gas
* £0.60 on electricity

Total you have spent on energy since starting imeasure (22 weeks ago):

* £65.92 on gas
* £64.68 on electricity

All users/All housetypes

Your results are being compared with the averages of 242 households.

Carbon emissions Kg CO2
................Last week..Last Month..Last Quarter
Per person......3 (54).....35 (61).....40 (49)
Per household...3 (146)....35 (175)....40 (135)

Gas use as kWh
................Last week..Last Month..Last Quarter
Per Person......0 (175)....122 (186)...128 (147)
Per Household...0 (444)....122 (469)...128 (366)

Electricity use as kWh
................Last week..Last Month..Last Quarter
Per Person......5 (36).....20 (44).....25 (35)
Per Household...5 (106)....20 (150)....25 (115)

Frugaldom

AFFL - WOW to your figures! :eek: :j :T

I'm £1.60 per week on standing charge and it costs about 2p per hour just for having the fridge, freezer and dehumidifier running, so that's almost £5 per week without switching on a light, computers, TV or heater or doing any cooking or washing, of which there's loads! It's been very, very cold here, so cold that today's meter reading shows it cost us over £5 for the past 24 hours. A fiend for life you should never, never, never move out of the house you are currently living in, as it is so unbelievably economical for heating that I can't even begin to imagine doing that here.

belfastgirl23

Well I can't input the info into imeasure yet but this has been my worst week so far by quite a margin. Electric use up to 84kwh (first time I've hit 12kwh per day) and gas use up to 894kwh (128kwh per day). I'm not surprised, I've been off work this week and have had the heat on a fair bit - it is freezing without it. And have been watching more telly than usual. In fact this accounts for most of the extra electric use which is scary. I did work my way through all of season 14 of ER on watch again though think I need to stick to watching it on the laptop from now on, our plasma obviously eats energy. I have earned the F I will no doubtedly get.

Next week will be better though, back at work and DH is away for the week so plan to tuck myself up in bed nice and early and watch telly on the laptop fingers crossed for milder weather...

TITEASCRAMP

BelfastGirl,
I'm in the same boat as you, what a terrible week. TV is to blame though, it's been on day and night (and its a plasma).
dh is back at work tomorrow and dd is back to school Wednesday so normality should resume
Im must be averaging around 10Kwh a day :eek: . It seem such a lot now I'm used to being around 7 a day. to think 12months ago we used to be averaging 22kwh a day:eek:

Frugaldom

I have no excuses - we just live in a cold area with no alternative to electricity and are home fulltime because that's where we work. It does really bug me, though, that I enquired about greener energy only to be informed that there's nothing available to us: On a clear day, I can SEE the windmills from my living room window! Methinks they have a great deal of 'sorting out' to get done if green energy is to become a major power source. Why can I not access energy that's being produced from the windfarm I can see from here? Here's hoping it's warm enough to turn off the electric heaters [strike]on[/strike] by 1st April.

I should get a carbon rating tomorrow from i-measure as that will be 4 full weeks of results since moving house. Hoping it isn't too bad!

Sylvan

I got my carbon rating. It's an E :eek:. Wish we'd never moved to a 20th century house! For over 20 years we've lived in 400-500 year old houses with 3ft thick stone walls and solid fuel heating because there was no mains gas. They were lovely and warm in the winter and cool in the summer. This house costs SO much more to heat and is still freezing most of the time, even though it's at a lower altitude, further south and far less exposed.

Apparently I'm 18/53.

You have been taking readings for 4 weeks

Since you started measuring your total household -
Energy use is 3,204 kWh (Gas: 2,736kWh | Electricity: 468kWh)
Carbon emissions are 808 Kg CO2 (Gas: 564 Kg CO2 | Electricity: 245 Kg CO2)
Money Spent

Last week you spent:

• £17.47 on gas
• £13.92 on electricity

Total you have spent on energy since starting imeasure (4 weeks ago):

• £95.77 on gas
• £56.16 on electricity

Your results are being compared with the averages of 31 households.
Carbon emissions Kg CO2

Last week Last Month

Per Person 41 (39) 51 (40)

Per household 163 (155) 202 (159)

Gas use as kWh

Last week Last Month

Per Person 125(124) 171 (131)

Per Household 499 (495) 684 (526)

Electricity use as kWh

Last week Last Month

Per Person 29 (25) 29 (24)

Per Household 116 (100) 117 (97)

TITEASCRAMP

Here we go results for last week. Everyone off. 3 people. 3 bed Semi.
Last week you spent:

• £3.89 on gas 111 kWh
• £8.04 on electricity 67kWh

Total you have spent on energy since starting imeasure (11 weeks ago):

• £42.26 on gas
• £73.20 on electricity

I'll hopefully get it down this week. Fingers crossed.

Decola

Last week you spent:
£3.50 on gas - 100 kwh
£2.64 on electricity - 22 kwh

Total you have spent on energy since starting imeasure (7 weeks ago):
£15.90 on gas
£17.88 on electricity

Frugaldom

Carbon Rating D (Can now work on getting that down)
Carbon Club 18/50 (I never know what this means anyway)

Last week you spent:

• £0.00 on gas
• £49.20 on electricity (wrong, it was £31.37 on prepayment meter)

Total you have spent on energy since starting imeasure (4 weeks ago):

• £0.00 on gas
• £179.40 on electricity (wrong, it was £122.26 on prepayment meter)

OK, I'm back in the game now that my new readings have caught up and are showing a result. I-measure does not work out anywhere near the correct charges using the payment package I have but it's still a handy tool, I guess. Not so sure about the carbon club thing, though, as it still looks like there may be a glitch.