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We use a little over 14kWh of electricity a day. However, due to the £66 credit we're actually paying a little less than we were before the price rise.
 
Gammawolf said:
WFH doesn't really use much electricity, its basically a lightbulb at say 10w, laptop at around 30w, and maybe dual monitors for 30w. So essentially 0.6kWh for 8 hours use.. it pales into comparison vs most households other usage and certainly saves money overall compared to travel expenses like car, bike, fuel, public transport or even a bicycle.
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I'm surprised how little it used.
Both of us work from home and by 5pm we've used about £1.20

The plasma TV in the evening uses more than both of us WFH just watching a long film!
 
413x said:
I'm surprised how little it used.
Both of us work from home and by 5pm we've used about £1.20

The plasma TV in the evening uses more than both of us WFH just watching a long film!
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We changed our plasma TV (binned)for a LED one as it was using just shy of 300w, now the LED uses less than 30W.
Big saving in everyday usage.
 
My wife work from home and use my old gaming as office PC, I am seriously thinking of building a more up to date PC for her as I see a 5-6 kwh more when she is at home. She works 8am till 8pm on her PC daily.
Curlyriff said:
I do either work from home or I'm away for 3 days generally a week. However the above I didn't take cooking or showering and a day I go into office I have my first and last coffee there, I don't drink them first thing in morning or after I finish work.

Charging phones, tablets is 100% at work so don't charge any of that at home. But the point was you suggested that WFH is only 0.6kWh. It's not because I'd only do 3hrs work a day at that.

To note that even if I had a laptop with say a 3080 to do my work the power drawer is more like 150watt. That is a much larger amount to the claimed 30watt. A laptop ideals around that or for basic office or Web browsing.

I ignored anything with regard to cooking and showering as that would be same if I came back from work or just WFH.

But yes I also have two days home, one day after work for about 3hrs before I'm asleep after I get back from office and the other is the Sunday evening after saying bye toy boys for the weekend till I see the again Tuesday. So those two days I am home otherwise only on the Monday night am I generally cooking at home anyways compared to any other day I'm somewhere else eating.

But even if all the other stuff is the base amount the WFH is still an additional 2kWh and then everything else whatever that adds up is on average 2kWh. So days I am out completely is about 1.56kWh. Then I use about 0.5kWh for the odd things like boiler on for hot water or the odd use of a microwave or whatever.

This week:
Monday 2.6kWh as was home evening
Tuesday 2kWh as out 24hrs
Wednesday 4.2kWh WFH (short day as went to gig that evening)
Thursday 4.6kWh WFH
Friday, don't know as will tell me tomorrow on account. But I did WFH in say but left for dad's 65th bday for evening and not back till Sunday evening now.

Ad example so yeah WFH doubles my general usage otherwise.
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Vanquish-Storm said:
Does anybody know what’s going on with Bulb now? The sale to Octopus has been delayed because British Gas are not happy?
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Nobody knows till at least end of the month cause the others are scared of Octopus getting to compete with them as a bigger competitor and they want to control the market. They've had months to make an offer etc and even had talks and said no etc and now they sulking!
 
bensonchi said:
My wife work from home and use my old gaming as office PC, I am seriously thinking of building a more up to date PC for her as I see a 5-6 kwh more when she is at home. She works 8am till 8pm on her PC daily.
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Aye working on the 5950x and 6900xt with a 34" 1440p HDR monitor is pulling 175watt to 200watt and when gaming about 250watt so not awful and deffo cheaper than travel for work but yeah adds up quick. Will be more so for those thet need hesting on whilst WFH too which I don't have.
 
chaparral said:
What size TV uses less then 30 watts :confused:
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Curlyriff said:
No idea, a 42" LED uses around 50-60w though so I'd hazard a guess at around 32" would be 30-40w depending on model.
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I googled a few websites and found this
www.ecoenergygeek.com

How Much Electricity Does A TV Use? (2024)

Discover how much electricity the average TV uses as well as how much your particular TV costs to run when turned on and on standby.
www.ecoenergygeek.com www.ecoenergygeek.com

Strange how the LED power catches up with the OLED as the screen size gets bigger

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Tinders said:
I got a curious email from octopus today they want to up my DD. I’m already paying £690 (before the discount). They want to up it to £770.

Admittedly prior to the price hikes we used to burn £20 notes in the boiler alongside the gas, but my typical DD under avro was only £250. I took measures in the summer to use less fuel in general and I do have a credit balance of 1k. If anything my DD should be going down not up.

I assume they just use a crappy algorithm to determine the DD levels? They are taking the Michael
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Jeebus, that's £200 more than I pay for 12 months!
 
chaparral said:
I googled a few websites and found this
www.ecoenergygeek.com

How Much Electricity Does A TV Use? (2024)

Discover how much electricity the average TV uses as well as how much your particular TV costs to run when turned on and on standby.
www.ecoenergygeek.com www.ecoenergygeek.com

Strange how the LED power catches up with the OLED as the screen size gets bigger

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I wonder how mini / micro LED will compare?
 
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