Post your actual energy usage

Gas - 12,250kwh
Electricity - 5,222kwh

4 bed older house, two adults mostly WFH. Our biggest issue in terms of heating is the living space is totally open plan and has bifold doors the width of one of the walls, plus two Velux windows, but it’s also what we like most about the house so swings and roundabouts!
 
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flea.rider said:
gas 2968
Electricity 11840 .... wow this is a big shock ?? and can't understand why ? ok 2 pc's on 6-8 hrs a day..tumble drier once a day ...bulbs all energy efficient.. 2 showers a day 9.8kw ?? non smart meter ..
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ok lol .. ****** up .. thats 2 yrs worth .. never mind ... avg... 332units a month pulled up wrong bill .. wifes looking at me thinking ive gone mad .. :)
 
Haven't got a year's worth of data due to no smart meter for a while. And unable to fit gas smart meter.

Electric is about 8kwh a day.

Gas is... Waaaay to high! I'll get some monthly figures. I do have it from September when I started taking a reading end of each month.
 
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From 1st January to 11 Dec

Gas: 8914 kWh / £639.09
Electric: 2998 kWh / £956.17

4 bed semi, 1980 build. Work from home and temperature 20 degrees 06:30 - 22:30, 18.5 outside that.

In 2021 it was:
Gas: 18413 kWh / £743.95
Electric: 3273 kWh / £737.48
 
Eon Next's 12month forecast (fixed till end of 23)....

Gas: 12444kWh / £572
Electric: 6157kWh / £1276

5 bed, built 2018, 5 people in house with me wfh most days and other half for about 50-60% of the week.

Suspect real world usage of gas will drop, when we moved to them from Octopus we had a nightmare of the units getting mixed up on last read and my electric has been being wasted by a PIV unit in the loft.

Pre-COVID I was at around 11500kWh for Gas and I suspect I'll get electric down to around 5000.
 
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4-bed 3-storey new build over the last 12 months with no renewables (yet):

Elec: 3014 kWh
Gas: 7226 kWh

Two adults two young kids, wife and I both WFH 5 days a week
 
3 bed end of terrace up till 01/05/21
Elec: 2,599 kWh
Gas: 10,139 kWh

3 bed detached (**** hole of a house) Jun 21 to Dec 21. This will be a weird one as I didn't actually have a working boiler until November so all my gas usage is November & December and my hot water was heated by an old immersion.
Elec: 1,219 kWh
Gas: 2,041 kWh

Same house but this whole year
Elec: 2,367 kWh
Gas: 9,146 kWh

My house will convert into a 5 bed house next year and hopefully will be very well insulated so that I can get the gas usage down
 
3 bed, with 2 room extension detached house (the extension is sloped felt roof and no real insulation in the roof space*).
2020
electric: 8800
gas: 13000

2021
electric: 9100
gas: 13700


2022 so far
electric: 6236
gas: 9500

We had solar fitted end of July/Start of August which has cut our grid usage by around 1300kw this year.
We've had the heating turned down a couple of degrees which seems to have made a difference to the gas bill but we're using around 80-100kw of gas a day at the moment as there is always someone home, but the hive heating control seems to be much faster/better at reacting than the thermostat we had a few years ago, as looking at the app it's running the heating in ~15 minute bursts and keeping it within around .5c of the target temp, whilst our old one seemed to vary by around ~3c (I think it may be the difference between a modern frequently sampling electric thermostat and a less frequent sampling with the old bimetal strip type).


*We're going to look into getting a new one/insulated replacement top as there is no other way to insulate the roof (apparently it's possible to basically get the felt stripped off, a frame built with kinspan type foam then a new top and felt)..
 
We don’t have a smart meter so our “estimates” from EDF seem to vary.

The best I can do is my Battery Portal which gives totals but they seem to over read a little bit and doesn’t read to the kw. We only have electricity so no gas.

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Just had a huge bill from EDF, skipped to the cupboards to see how wrong they were...it's worse than their bill!

One month - before standing charges:

460 gas units - £541.22 (5,122 kWh)
Electricity 638 units - £230.13 (638 kWh)

House built 2007, five bed. Heating has been a PITA this year, had most replaced and we're struggling with not being able to activate the heating unless the hot water is also running 24/7 (which explains some of it). Hopefully Nest will reduce this when fitted.
 
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8354kWh for this past 12 months.
£1817 makes the average unit price of 21.75p, sat around 25ppu currently.

3 bedroom (extended out the back full width living area) 1950's semi with electrical heated flooring on covering all downstairs from Dec-March time usually, 3 inefficient teenage daughters and a wife that loves her washing machine and tumble driers. Last year she set the heated floor at 27 degrees permanent so this year Ive reprogrammed it to 21 and fitted a quooker tap in the kitchen and cheaper model in utility, binned the kettles and will see what kind of difference it makes.
 
2 Bedroom 1970's end of terrace. No insulation in the floor, 25mm rockwool in the walls and 270 mm glasswool in the loft. 40yr old boiler! Windows from 2005.

Gas :- 6303kWh year up to March 2022
Electricity :- 1882kWh year up to March 2022

Not got enough data for the remaining part of the year but can post again in March 2023 when my summary comes through!

Generally based on heating from October to March 1hr in the morning when i get up and 2.5hrs in the evening with the heating being boosted when necessary. Past couple of days have been -6 overnight so badly needed a boost to keep any sort of heat in. Alarmingly i didn't last night but when i got in this evening my thermometer read 7 degrees so my house got really cold during the day!
 
MattTheTall77 said:
From 1st January to 11 Dec

Gas: 8914 kWh / £639.09
Electric: 2998 kWh / £956.17

4 bed semi, 1980 build. Work from home and temperature 20 degrees 06:30 - 22:30, 18.5 outside that.

In 2021 it was:
Gas: 18413 kWh / £743.95
Electric: 3273 kWh / £737.48
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That's an extraordinary jump in elec costs. Mine is up 20% and I am in one of the worlds most expensive cities in the world amid the "cost of living crisis" and just did some calcs, pretty much half the cost per kwh here.
 
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