Post your actual energy usage

For 2023 I used the below

Elec: 4,328 kWh @ cost of £1,230
Gas: 10,936 kwh @ cost of £969

I've been very liberal with the heating this winter ever since switching tariffs in June and decided to treat myself (WFH, small child as well) to heating the house to 21c 24/7. So i'm expecting the Gas usage to go up by a thousand or two but the overall cost to be lower. For comparison in Dec we used 1945kWh of gas and it cost £97
 
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For 2023 our household (2 adults and a baby, terraced house) used:

Electric: 3787 kWh
Gas: 5962 kWh

Total cost of £1722.

We use the fireplace over the winter so the CH is not on all the time, usually just boost in the morning and mid day.
 
This is down from just under 9000Kwh 7 years ago (night storage heaters)

My yearly total use 2023 from the grid, nearly all on the Octopus GO cheap rate.

Generated 4500 kwh via solar, exported just over 3200kwh to the grid for the FIT payment (0.26p kwh)

Pleased with it even when it has been a poor solar year.


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2023 Figs are in:

Elec: 964 kWh
Gas: 1899 kWh

I had to double check those as they seem low even for me... The last bill estimates annual Elec @ 1032kWh and Gas @ 3389kWh so the elec stacks up but the gas seems way off so not sure what's up there (176m3 of gas used which I converted using the formula on the bill: 176 x 1.02264 × 38.0 ÷ 3.6 = 1899kWh)
 
2023

Elec: 4534.32
Gas: 11446.37kWh.

I dread to think what my gas would have been without the 50sqm of underfloor 100mm PIR. We haven't been cold once - absolute game changer in a 1930s semi!

I'll do electricity later, it seems the Octopus website is being nailed atm with folks bored crunching their numbers :cry:


Added electricity. My average pence per kWh is £0.20 with the EV. I anticipate this will drop a bit, as we used the oil filled rads quite a bit pre-insulation.
 
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2023

Elec: 4401 kWh
Gas: 16156 kWh

125+ year old 3 bed cottage, 2 adults and a toddler.

Down from what I posted in the old thread for 2021:

Elec: 5500 kWh
Gas: 20400kWh
 
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2023 figures for us (2 adults, 3-bed detached, combi boiler for heating and hot water, heating on for very liberal periods at 19.5C whenever we're home including some WFH):

Elec: 3,054kWh
Gas: 5,650kWh

Pretty reasonable. I don't get annual bills and can't be bothered adding up all the monthlies :p but usage seems fine considering I think around 300-400kWh of the electric was used when I still had an EV.
 
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200 year old stone farmhouse plus 3 gites.

Electric ovens, dishwashers and washing machines in each which guests make the most of. 750W pool pump runs 12 hours a day during the summer.

15,205 kWH which cost €2,300.

No idea on gas kWH, but we put around €800 worth of gas in our 1,000 kg cistern every year for the house cooker and CH which only runs Oct - April at 18°C.

30 minutes after lighting the wood burner in the living room, the CH switches itself if anyway.
 
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All electric 2023 about 6,000kwh 4 bed semi 2 adults at home most of the day. Air source heat pump not working from February til November as the main board had failed.
 
I checked my December gen and it was 62.7 kWh for the month, the best day was 6.56, and the worst was 0.14. I had a good week or so where the generation was less than 2 per day in a row.

4.4kW of panels, if I doubled it and a bit, the figures would roughly double in line to match yours, but still would not be enough to cover the 15-20kWh I used per day on average.

You must surely, at times, need to pay for some import electric, even if your net generation exceeds your usage across the year, unless your consumption on the average day is only 1 kWh or so, which seems unlikely!
 
We can be quite flexible with our demand, on days when there is very little generation we limit demand to 'base load' of fridge, freezer, lights, It etc which is around 1 kWh per day.
 
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