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Freakbro said:
Just looked at our energy account on Octopus and we used just under 1MW in Nov....

On Mon 27th the daily usage was 52Kwh :eek:

I accept it's going to be higher than avg as we have two people in the house and two people living in a static caravan and a farm yard, but the yard is mostly just lights, so I've no idea where 52KW went, FML....
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A friend of my dads who is a farmer had a similar situation, someone living in a caravan on the farm had been running a 2kw electric heater 24/7, surprised it didn't burn down first!
 
VaderDSL said:
A friend of my dads who is a farmer had a similar situation, someone living in a caravan on the farm had been running a 2kw electric heater 24/7, surprised it didn't burn down first!
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Yea, I've asked them and they've not got an electric heater as they're on LPG for heating. Time to do some more sleuthing but I think everyone's getting sick of me banging on about leccy usage lol
 
Freakbro said:
Just looked at our energy account on Octopus and we used just under 1MW in Nov....

On Mon 27th the daily usage was 52Kwh :eek:

I accept it's going to be higher than avg as we have two people in the house and two people living in a static caravan and a farm yard, but the yard is mostly just lights, so I've no idea where 52KW went, FML....
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Led lights?
 
200sols said:
Led lights?
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I believe they all are, yea. We have a couple of powerful security ones that are on all night, which is why our baseload is 6-700w overnight. There is an arena with 6 x 150w (I think) floodlights, but I can't see anyone has booked that Monday.

I'd got my head around that we can use between 20-30KW on a bad day, so 52Kw is just :eek:

And we have solar!
 
chrcoluk said:
it be interesting to see if you profit from it.
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Results are in from Wednesdays energy saving session

My target to beat (which they don't tell you beforehand) was 1.12kWh and I used 111Wh, earning me 302 points. 1 point=1 penny. When/if I get to 1500 points, I can get a £15 voucher for Sainsburys/Asda/Tesco or other places like John Lewis, Costa, Argos or Amazon.

Although, I suspect this afternoons session target will turn out to be quite low as they now know just how little energy I can use. Which, tbh, I should be doing all the time anyway. Unfortunately, I have to cook, clean and keep the fridge/freezer turned on.
 
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I'm not really able to save anything with the Octopus sessions. My usage is so low already.

On the 16th I saved a whopping 0.12kwh (216 coins) that's with literally everything turned off apart from the fridge and router.
 
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I know everyone's house is different but it's good to know 1150kwh isn't horrendous

As I have my office and gfs office at 21c 0900-1700
And then living room at 21c 1700 to 2200
 
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Electric is pretty much same every month. With an uptick in winter due to being indoors more

8-10kwh a day ish.
More if watching tv for longer or 3d printer is going all day, or tumble drier etc
 
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Richie said:
Nov:
Elec - 88 kWh
Gas - 344 kWh (31m³)

Now let's see how we do for the 3 traditionally coldest months of Dec-Feb

-4oC this morning :o
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Crikey what do you live in mine was:
Elec : 236kwh
Gas : 2390kwh

3 bed detached with a missus who likes the heating on 29c
 
Nov:
Electricity 495kwh
Gas 1001kwh

Bill was £150

Electricity does include car charging about 50%.

If heating isn’t on normal daily gas usage is 5kwh - suspect that’s pretty decent considering hot water and dinner is on gas. And we do cook most of the nights
 
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