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That usage is very high.
Minato said:
Just normal usage. A couple of desktop computers, some lights (most all LEDs), bigger spend seems to come when the tumbledryer/washing machine/dishwasher are on.
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If this is really all you have then something is wrong. 1.5kw as a baseline is massive, something is drawing a lot of.power.
 
Minato said:
Just normal usage. A couple of desktop computers, some lights (most all LEDs), bigger spend seems to come when the tumbledryer/washing machine/dishwasher are on. We have a couple of EVs that cost about £13 to charge, but that's only twice a month. Even on the non charging days we seem to be using 60-80kW. On Octopus Tracker.

I've just been playing around with some analytics using the data downloaded directly from Octopus. Excluding the car charging days (night times where >4kW/hr usage) the chart looks like this:

I have no explanation for what's changed post October but clearly our average usage has gone up.

Looking at my smart meter mini tablet thing they've given me, my current baseline usage with no major appliance running (e.g. dishwasher) is ~1.5kW so around £0.35 per hour. That would be fine as it would be £8.40 a day. Spend a few quid on appliance usage and call it £12-13 a day and I'm fine. But then I look back and in reality it says I'm spending £20-30 a day, sometimes more on nights I charge one of the cars.

Lump winter gas in, and the bills are really soaring.
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As above, 1.5kw as baseline usage is not just high, it is MEGA high and not at all normal. In fact it is 50% higher than the entire typical daily usage of a average home in the UK. Your total usage is 6-8 times HIGHER than a typical UK household. I think £5 daily use is high and I'm in an all electric house with an EV and heat pump.

To give some perspective, computers use very little if they are idle, 30-60w. LED bulbs use almost nothing, 3-8w a piece. dishwasher should use <1kwh per cycle on the eco setting, washing machine will also be similar. Tumble drier depends on what kind you have, a vented will drink the juice, condenser is slightly lower and heat pump uses about 1/3 the energy.

Have you switched an immersion heater on for your hot water? That will cost loads of money compared to gas.

What you need to do is spend tomorrow and go round and unplug everything and as you turn each thing off, monitor your smart meter in-home display and work out what is causing your high background use. Then follow up with the 'active' appliances like the drier etc.

This isn't really the thread for it, I'd suggest making a new one and also set out what tariff you are on.
 
@Minato I'd seriously get someone to come around and look at whats going on, we have 3 pc's on 24/7, people are always at home, TV is on for at least 12 hours a day as well as a pond pump (~70w consumption) and our daily usage is ~15kwh a day., 1 minute refresh interval, spikes will be either kettle,toaster, shower or washing machine/dryer, the slight bumps are fridge freezer.
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b0rn2sk8 said:
As above, 1.5kw as baseline usage is not just high, it is MEGA high and not at all normal. In fact it is 50% higher than the entire typical daily usage of a average home in the UK. Your total usage is 6-8 times HIGHER than a typical UK household. I think £5 daily use is high and I'm in an all electric house with an EV and heat pump.

To give some perspective, computers use very little if they are idle, 30-60w. LED bulbs use almost nothing, 3-8w a piece. dishwasher should use <1kwh per cycle on the eco setting, washing machine will also be similar. Tumble drier depends on what kind you have, a vented will drink the juice, condenser is slightly lower and heat pump uses about 1/3 the energy.

Have you switched an immersion heater on for your hot water? That will cost loads of money compared to gas.

What you need to do is spend tomorrow and go round and unplug everything and as you turn each thing off, monitor your smart meter in-home display and work out what is causing your high background use. Then follow up with the 'active' appliances like the drier etc.

This isn't really the thread for it, I'd suggest making a new one and also set out what tariff you are on.
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Right now I got 2 PC's (3570k, 1080gtx and 12700k 3080fe) and 2 monitors as well as modem and phone plugged into UPS and the software for it is telling me ~200 watts (usually stable at 180w but if I doing something like typing or browsing it goes to 180-220w), for a 24hr period including some gaming
1st 4.68kw
2nd 4.59kw
3rd 4.61kw

1st to 16th I used 70.98kwh, averages out to about 4.4kwh per day.
 
I copied the config from old home assistant to new and on old home assistant the pvoutput end of day works fine but on the new one its failing but the other one works fine, does this look ok for those that also have it running with givenergy system.

alias: PVOutput for GivTCP - Update System
description: ""
triggers:
- minutes: /2
trigger: time_pattern
conditions:
- condition: time
before: "23:54:00"
actions:
- action: rest_command.update_pvoutput
data: {}
mode: single
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alias: PVOutput for GivTCP - Update End Of Day
description: ""
triggers:
- at: "23:55:00"
trigger: time
conditions: []
actions:
- data: {}
action: rest_command.update_pvoutput_endofday
mode: single
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I know some stuff is cut off but thats just sensor stuff and was copy pasted from HA Virtual Machine that was running 2.4.9 which was working fine but I did have to change from givtcp to givtcp2 but that was it for sensor stuff.
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Its even failing sometimes to do the interval updates, I had to reboot home assistant to get it kicking again and yesterday it didn't start til 4am.

I tried rerunning the end of day automation after reboot because like an idiot I didn't copy it before rebooting the VM.
 
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