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A far cry from WWII all of the shops now are taking a batteringHow can any of these places survive? Not sure they can?
Maybe in very fortunate spots in beaches or something. But other than that..
A far cry from WWII all of the shops now are taking a batteringHow can any of these places survive? Not sure they can?
Maybe in very fortunate spots in beaches or something. But other than that..
Ha yes, I'd noticed that too!Mind you I've found it funny when I go food shopping that the price of 'essentials' keep going up due to 'rising costs' (understandable to a point) yet somehow, even though milk has massively increased in cost, chocolate is still the same price.....![]()
In 2021 i used an avg 9.3kwh electric and 45kWh gas per day.
3 bedroom house, with 2 kids.
Changed my boiler in feb this year so hopefully that is a bit more economical, also going to swap daily baths to showers, started turning off the router, sky and tv at the wall on a night.
Im hoping all these little changes help.
I hope you mean the measurement AFTER you have converted your units used to KWH (which would make it 4 units of gas a day aprox) comes out to roughly £3.50 per day based on a 7.5p unit rate.In 2021 i used an avg 9.3kwh electric and 45kWh gas per day.
This is where smart plugs come in handy, you can actually test how much power devices are using and make changes that make sense. Sky box is probably one of the worst as it never "turns off" it has no standby.Turning off your router at the wall every night is one of the dumbest things I've heard so far.
How are they working out these very high costs? -
If we keep the CAP, the electric is 70p then 90p /unit in january/April no wizardry.
the concept of a CAP does not exist in DE , maybe they bought their energy further in advance , rather than lastminute12months as the cap permits, need some blue-sky thinking by the conservatives (&labour)
On top of the poor help for UK households have to remember we also start from being poorer than EU counterparts - double whammy.
those 45K middle income are 9% poorer than de/fr, poorer families 20% less - that's inequality.
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As said - and your eco credentials are ? no flights. no vehicle use ... saving the planet starts at home.
It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done.
Unnecassary if you have smart meters already and they'll take forever to pay for themselves since most standby usage is already pretty minimal, a lot don't measure energy use either, - just check the IHD or link it up with the Bright app to view on your phone (takes longer to update though).This is where smart plugs come in handy, you can actually test how much power devices are using and make changes that make sense. Sky box is probably one of the worst as it never "turns off" it has no standby.
Mine is 6.45kWh a day average over a month including two days week working from home.I don't get how they think 8kwh per day is average usage. people must not be at home and use any appliances.
45kWh per day averaged over the year is fairly typical use. Your 11kWh per day isn't, that's very low use, you're either very lucky or very cold45kWh of gas per day?!? I'd certainly hope your new boiler is more economical. Even in the depths of January we averaged around 11kWh gas and 6kWh electricity per day with gas central heating and electric hob/oven for 2 people. Annual average was much lower obviously.
Without external forces like the current crisis, would you have replaced your boiler anyway?
45kWh per day averaged over the year is fairly typical use. Your 11kWh per day isn't, that's very low use, you're either very lucky or very cold![]()
Honestly the router shouldn't be using that much to make a difference and turning it on/off could actually end up causing you more issues with things like line speed as it might be seen as line issues. I'd grab a plug in power meter thing if you haven't already and check it but it's likely not going to be that high. To give you an idea, according to the real time meter the essentials (ie fridge, freezer, router, ups) in my house don't even hit 100watts (0.1kwh) unless the fridge/freezer are on their 'cool down cycle'started turning off the router, sky and tv at the wall on a night.
Im hoping all these little changes help.
The average must be around 38kWh or whatever the cap works out at no?45kWh per day averaged over the year is fairly typical use. Your 11kWh per day isn't, that's very low use, you're either very lucky or very cold![]()
10-15 watt used from router so whatever that works out by having off for 6-8h daily.Honestly the router shouldn't be using that much to make a difference and turning it on/off could actually end up causing you more issues with things like speed as it might be seen as line issues. I'd grab a plug in power meter thing if you haven't already and check it but it's likely not going to be that high. To give you an idea, according to the real time meter the essentials (ie fridge, freezer, router, ups) don't even hit 100watts (0.1kwh) unless the fridge/freezer are on their 'cool down cycle'
15w x8 = 120w so 0.12kwh at most saved per day or 43.8kwh per year.... like I say hardly worth it considering the other issues it could cause and in some cases 'booting up' might end up removing any savings due to all the 'processing' it does on boot up. Not to mention 'power on' is usually the most stressful side of electronics and could end up causing the router to fail.10-15watt used from router so whatever that works out by having off for 6-8h daily.
32kWh - as the cap is set based on 12,000kWh of gas per year. So 45kWh is 40% above average, but perhaps that's not out of the ordinary as I initially thought.The average must be around 38kWh or whatever the cap works out at no?
I did wonder if you were living in a flat, that would explain it. If you're really lucky with your flat positioning you'll have one external wall and all other walls will be internal, another flat below and above, makes for very cheap/free heating. Huge difference to heating a detached 3-4 bed house with external walls on all sides, well insulated or not they aren't comparable.Then our housing stock is in much worse shape than we deserve. We live in a 2 bed flat that's around 7 years old - so perhaps much better insulated than most homes, but we weren't cold at all. Heating set to come on twice a day over winter and the thermostat rarely showed less than 20C during the day when we were WFH.
I'd have to have a gas hob and be using all 4 to heat the flat all day to use 45kWh.
I remember working at B&Q before I went to uni back in 2007 and the big push to sell cheap effective loft and wall insulation - clearly that didn't actually improve many houses if we're still using so much gas to keep them warm, on average.