Gas & Electricity - which is higher usage and how much you use?

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So I reviewed our gas and leccy recently, and my electricity is approx 4x higher than my gas.

We use an annual average of 5700 kWh of electricity, and 21000 of gas.

Apparently our quarterly electricity usage is 2/3 of the average house for 12 months.

In simple terms they're suggesting the average house uses 2200 kWh which just seems impossibly low?

We're in a detached large 3/4 bed house, gas central heating, gas oven, lots of gadgets/TVs and 2 young kids so lots of washing and some drying. I'd expect to be above average, but double?

Does our usage seem wrong to anyone? What are your annual kWh figures? Any help appreciated because I'm looking around the house and I just don't see how we are using nearly double the average house leccy?
 
So far in 2016 I have used 2403kWh of Electricity and 1327kWh of Gas. This is a 3 bedroom terraced house with 2 occupants currently (one of which is retired).

This also includes lots of stuff left on all the time (for example 2 servers in the attic with about 18 Hdds in total on 24/7).

A further check of my smart meter says I use 11-12 kWh of electricity each day so over a year it will end up at approximately 3750-4000 kWh
 
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we are using around 11000kwh leccy and 33000kwh gas annually for a 7 bed detached house with 6 permanent occupants.
 
You would be surprised how much electric electrics/washing machines/dryers use.
I have the conversation with people every day (I work for EDF)
customer - "You are charging me too much! stop conning my I'm not paying it!!!"
Cut to 2 hours of explaining and questions later
customer - "oh makes sense"
*puts customer on mute"
Me: "I hate my life"

4 bedroom house averages around 6k KWH for electric and 22k for gas, works out to around £2k annually depending on tariffs and unit rates etc.
However you have to keep in mind thats an average from Ofgem, many people are not very good with power usage, leaving stuff on all the time and taking it for granted.
I'd imagine the majority of people (or the largest percentage) have no idea how much stuff uses and then you have a hand full of people who do know and use allot less than the others.

They are comparing you against 1/2 bedroom flats/terraced houses where 2/3k elec and 8k gas is the average it seems like, god knows why though.
 
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Loads. Of electricity. Not. Much gas.
Think electric over year is 4x higher.

End of terrace house
2 adults, no kids.

I predict 60 for electric per month at 11ppunit

Main reason is
plasma tvv/amp/surround system/HTpc some evenings - this alone can use 50p a film
Electric oven + home cooking
Washing machine

Glad I don't have kids!

Gas will be only showers and heating. I don't feel cold but gf will. But TV system offsets this a little!


Incidentally the estimators are useless for me. Even with gas heating and electric oven they still say 500 each bill over the year.
I just look at the unit and standing charge of the electricity
Found one for 20ppday and 10ppunit I will switch to when I can

I allow for 70ppm in summer and 90 in winter.
 
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Thanks guys you've put me at ease then that my annual usage isn't unrealistically high.

Seems npower are just morons...
 
5 bed detached, 2 adults, 3 kids. 11000 gas, 9000 elec. Electric cooker, tumble dryer at least once a day, washing machine, dishwasher. Two fridge/freezers. Bath run at least once a day + plus a shower.
 
I am sure we had a similar thread very recently on this.

3 Bed Semi - 10 years old. Family of 4 (5 at weekends).

10,000KWh Gas p.a
12,000KWh Electricity p.a
 
Electricity Total 2,347 kWh
Gas total 17,300 kWh

3 bed semi, gas cooker, log burner, two living there.

Still think my gas is too high especially as we use the log burner for heat.
 
I don't see how people get away with 2200 a year. I certainly doubt that is the average, unless they have everything using gas, never use their oven, have no electric shower.

We used 4500units last year, LED lighting, electric shower, oven washing machine and tumble drier used most days.
 
Ha Ha, a nice little narrative hook to create a "My House is bigger than Yours" thread! :p :D

Seriously, I am sufficient of an energy hog that I am (slowly) working towards building my own CHP system.

My Brother had a house that used so much gas that he was on an industrial tariff (Which, surprisingly (Though this has ended unfortunately)) meant that if he had cut his consumption, his bills would actually have gone up!

Ho Hummn! :D
 
Leccy around 5000kwh a year. :eek:

Gas don't have a clue, its expensive in winter but cheap as chips in summer. :p

We only have a gas boiler and no fire everything else is electric.
 
Deffo seems like 4-6000 kwh per year is typical then, which i would believe.

Peoples gas either seems really low, or similar to mine. Our boiler is properly old, non-combi, so i wonder if that's why and if the other people around 20000 kwh habe an old boiler too?

Or possibly more likely the v low gas people use oil/log burners...
 
MatsyLR said:
4 bedroom house averages around 6k KWH for electric and 22k for gas, works out to around £2k annually depending on tariffs and unit rates etc.
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That seems awfully high... We're paying £80/month for both, 3 bed, 2 adults 1 child so lots of washing, 1950s so not the best insulation, 8 year old gas boiler, TV on for a good few hours a day, girlfriend who doesn't realise light switches have an "off" setting, biggish tropical fish tank and plenty of gadgets...
 
Hikari Kisugi said:
I don't see how people get away with 2200 a year. I certainly doubt that is the average, unless they have everything using gas, never use their oven, have no electric shower.

We used 4500units last year, LED lighting, electric shower, oven washing machine and tumble drier used most days.
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Tumble drier is easily 1000kw per year if used daily.
 
Not sure about kwh, but electric bill averages out about £80ish a quarter, gas about £20. We have a log burner so can count on 1 hand the times the central heating was turned on last winter.
 
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