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Let's see if I can get the maths right10-15 watt used from router so whatever that works out by having off for 6-8h daily.
10 * 6 * 365 = 21900W = 21.9kWh.
At £0.50/kWh that's a tad over a tenner a year.
Let's see if I can get the maths right10-15 watt used from router so whatever that works out by having off for 6-8h daily.
It doesn't pull any addional after a switch off and start up according to the smart plug so seems it just runs generally at least for the BT ones. Indeed turning off isn't huge but £22 a year (october) then for some people on lower usage maybe? Be double that in April etc15w 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.
We use 11kWh average so seems im almost 2/3rd less than average then. So yeah maybe not out ordinary in that there must be like a 30% bracket of households in that figure if you assumed 30% near mine and the average in middle like 40%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.
Another reason why we should stop building so many housing estates full of semi and detached identical housing and start increasing density of existing stock and on brownfield sites instead then. Combined with better public transport and cycle infrastructure, it'll allow for a much better quality of life at lower cost for many people when mixed with commercial development and public amenities, parks, etc and leave vast swathes of countryside to enjoy as they are.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.
As others have said, you're in a flat. But yes old housing stock is poor.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.
The average must be around 38kWh or whatever the cap works out at no?
That’s not how it works, it only benefited business because they didn’t pass it onto the consumer which they should have done if they didn’t raise their prices at the same time. What actually happened is they raised their prices (effectively a stealth price rise because it wasn’t visible to the end user) and ‘pocketed’ the difference. When the reduction ended they passed it on. As such it enables lots of business to raise their prices by the back door.It depends on how it's implemented. The VAT reduction for hospitality during COVID benefited businesses because they could reclaim their input tax at standard rate but only had to charge customers a reduced rate.
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![]()
You live in a tiny insulated box surrounded by other insulated boxes. No surprise your heating is cheaper than a house. I use about 15000kWh of gas in year in a 4 bed detached.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.
Well now i have a justifiable use to get rid of the 15 year old plasma TVOnly just replaced one of the fans in the back of it (we wont talk about the dust inside EVER)
This is getting scary as hell now, I earn enough to cover it but i would sooner not be spending £320 a month on energy compared to the previous £110. That's £210 every month down the drain and the goverment (what goverment) are doing jack **** I work in the private sector wages are dead in the water and I hope the unions actually strike and something gets done.
My place (public sector) hasn't given a payrise in nearly 10yrs
You live in a tiny insulated box surrounded by other insulated boxes. No surprise your heating is cheaper than a house. I use about 15000kWh of gas in year in a 4 bed detached.
Which area of the public sector has had no pay rise in nearly 10 years?My place (public sector) hasn't given a payrise in nearly 10yrs
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The thermostat is set and the heating comes on as and when needed throughout the day to maintain the temperature. This is what I refer to as "on". It's not constantly firing.If you have a well insulated home why is your heating on all the time over winter? Even on the coldest days, our 2 bed flat only needs the heating to come on in the morning and again in the afternoon for a bit to maintain a comfortable temperature, even when we were WFH last winter.