Look again.How’s my smart meter showing £3.50 when both gas and electric reset to 0 at midnight?
No heating on either.
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I did, it’s now showing £0.05 and £3.55
Mine's showing gas as zero when it should show the daily standing charge. Conversley mine shows the electricity standing charge and yours doesn't.I did, it’s now showing £0.05 and £3.55
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The daily standing charge is £0.49 for electric and £0.29 for gas so mine shouldn’t have jumped to £3.50 from 0, weird.Mine's showing gas as zero when it should show the daily standing charge. Conversley mine shows the electricity standing charge and yours doesn't.
Electric is now showing as £0.55 so I’m guessing the standing charge has been added now.
Sleep on it. If it says 30p in the morning it's sorted itself. If it says £10 you might have a gas leak...
We average 20kw per day. At home pretty much 24/7. We have high use of washing machine machine, tumble dryer and lots of medical equipment that is in constant use or charging (hoists, adjustable bed, Bipap, suction, oxygen concentrator, tilt standing table, power packs for chair etc.).
Then you have just the things we use being at home plus education and entertainment, sensory etc. We changed our cooker from gas to A++ rated conduction hob and double fan oven a couple of years ago for safety reasons. All our other appliances are the best ratings we can get as we replace too, usually A or higher, except the tumble dryer.
That was a cheap replacement and when it goes again, I will look at getting a heat pump if we can afford it.
The fridge freezer is getting on a bit, so not sure if efficiency drops off? The T.V. is a Panasonic 42" plasma of age, so we are cutting back on that for planned essential viewing, where possible. Trying to instill better habits around lights and plugs being turned off with certain members of family *cough* but not many areas we can really put a big dent in.
pretty sure the base load of the house was 400 - 600w last time I tested a year ago.
to be honest just normal living:
daily showers
oven/ microwave usage, kettle, coffee machine (probably this lol)
Fridge/freezer (uses nothing practically)
washing machine every other day and likely along with tumble dryer (heat pump)
Computers are on a lot due to working from home
TV couple hours a night
now admittedly I do still have my hot tub running at the moment and I have done for years as its regularly monitored, with it off I only save 5KW of usage. Now even with that off i tend to have high usage.
possibly thinking the neighbors are connected up as they were connected to my water usage! £400 quarters on water anyone i practically paid for watering their new lawn and garden for a year after cutting them off £40
No wonder you've only got a Ryzen 2700 when your hot tub is costing you £50 in electricity a month. I bet it's got RGB too
BTW my house base load is 28w, 13w if I turn the router off at night but then I end up using all the data on my phone or tablet when I'm in bed. It jumps up to 128w when the fridge compressor modulates and turns on. Your 400w-600w base load is ridiculous, you need to turn some stuff off
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This is what mt octopus says. I rang them and they just said this is your cost from October . Use less energy.
I posted on here and it was agreed they're the non capped rates. I was hoping it would be fixed by today. Seemingly not.
Not quite that high, I don't have a hot tub. But we always use 15-20kWh, excluding the car.
I was beginning to think the neighbors had tapped in, but when me and the wife went away, leaving our eldest it dropped right down to under 5kWh.
We seem to use 250w+ as a baseline.
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Way way more I can't believe the average is achievable for a lot of households who are more than two people in a moderate side property with very low energy use
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Yes, very likely. Not convinced an average house is actually average......
Rubbish.
2 adults, 2 kids in a 3 bed terrace here with gas CH, shower and cooking, tumble dryer, lots of gadgets, TV use, gaming PC, working from home every day.
Average electric usage over the last 2 months has been ~57kWh/week, or 2,964kWh/year. The ofgem "average" is 2,900kWh
Gas usage over the last 12 months was 11796kWh. Ofgem "average" is 12,000kWh.
So we're within 2.5% of their averages for both.
Terrace is the key word there, your heat loss profile will be considerably less than a detached house and likely a smaller area to heat in the first place. House type makes a big difference to thermal modelling even though electricity usage will be comparable if the occupancy levels are as well.
My Octopus IHD has been displaying crazy prices for the last week - a standing charge of around £0.76 for elec at a guess from what it is every morning, plus high usage prices. The actual kWh usage hasn't changed all month (I checked my daily usage figures) so whatever price update they've sent to the device is flat out wrong.
That's bonkers! If i'm careful my daily usage can be as little as 7.5kwh, average is between that & 11kwh. We had 1 day this month where we used 18kwh & that's where we did like 3 dish washer loads after a BBQ the night before and several washer & drier loads. I also spent about 8 hours gaming.
Our big users are -
Gaming PC
Electric Shower
2xHeated Aquariums
Air Conditioning
Kitchen appliances
My residual load is about 150w.
Highest ever usage was that 40c day where we hit 38kwh as i had the AC on for 24h straight & needed the lights on throughout the day as I tin foiled the windows so the house was pitch black inside.