Tech guys- What is your electricity bill?

Lots of amateur radio stuff and running 4 PC's permanently on, IR kennel heating at night when below zero for the less hardy dogs, plus normal household gear, we average around five hundred quid a quarter. Heating is oil, cooking electric. I blame it on the wife's excessive usage of hot water and too many showers... She knows who the real culprit is though! Supplier is Scottish Power
 
Pay around 50 quid a month for electric - that's for 4 peeps in a 3 bed house.

Quite an array of gadgets on the go, couple of TV's, occasional use of a projector, tumble dryer 3-4 times per week, PC / Consoles probably on for a couple of hours a day.

Wife and daughters also have straighteners and hair dryers in use frequently.
 
I don't wanna be Greta Thunberg but, even tho we are all into our electronic, power guzzling devices, we shouldn't just leave them on 24/7 cos "15p lol I don't care"

I don't think it's big and clever :p
Leaving the TV on for the dogs... Can't they listen to radio 4 like my cats?
 
About £100 per month for Electric alone, Average 3 bed

PC with 3x1080ti (@ 80% power limit) mining 95% of the time, gaming 5%.. uses around £60 a month alone but also heats the whole downstaires and is whisper quiet (watercooled)

dryer on daily etc etc

Outfox the market - 12.1p kwh
 
Efour said:
I don't wanna be Greta Thunberg but, even tho we are all into our electronic, power guzzling devices, we shouldn't just leave them on 24/7 cos "15p lol I don't care"

I don't think it's big and clever :p
Leaving the TV on for the dogs... Can't they listen to radio 4 like my cats?
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Yeah but they like Dog TV :p

(Scarily this is actually a real thing my wife puts on for them)
 
jonneymendoza said:
my missus thinks thats way too much and watching my use now
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jonneymendoza said:
42 inch 1080p TV(missus wont let me get a bigger one!)
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You're not paying too much for electricity, you're paying too much for your decision to marry. :)

Seriously'though, you've listed 3 PC's and a console, 2 sound systems, 2 Raspberry Pi... A GPU that cost £650 and another that cost £1000.

Your wife then thinks the issue is the cost of electricity...:p ... Are these appliances all on at the same time? If not, then cost of electricity is irrelevant with that list e.g you can't possibly be gaming on 2 GPUs at once, so unless you're mining then at least one of them is costing next to nothing in electricity. The real question your wife is getting at is why you have so many.
 
jonneymendoza said:
i just did a quote on that website and the cheapest i found was from bulb with the following info:

Tariff name: vari-fair
Rate type: variable
13.01p kWh
standing charge: 20.445p per day
No exit fees
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If you do join bulb find someone you know who uses bulb, you each get £50 credit for just clicking a link :).

I've been with them for a year or so, not had any complains at all unlike half the other suppliers :p
 
£30-40 a month for electricity in a 3 floor 3 bed semi-detached. That's with my office setup on nearly 24/7 as I'm working from home, TV on nearly all day as girlfriend is on maternity. Surprised at some of the high amounts in here given the relatively little usage from the looks of it.

My gas usage is about £5-8 a month on average over the year. Summer months I use as little as 3-4 units.
 
We're around £82 a month for gas AND electric. Wife is home all day with kids, and our tumble drier seems to be on all the time! Heating is on 24/7 too (not literally, but we never turn it off so it kicks in if temp drops below 20, even at 3am).

So yes, I think you are paying too much. I bet a rubbish tariff is more likely to blame than excessive electrical usage.
 
I think switching to LED lights is a big change. One 60W bulb consumes 1kWh in 16-17 hours. On 5W LED bulb consumes 1kWh in 200 hours.

At 13p per kWh the 60W costs about 20p to run for 24 hours. The LED costs 1.5p to run for 24 hours.

LED bulbs are about £3 a pop so they pay for themselves in a couple of months over winter where they'll be used more often. Not going to chop loads off your bill, but over time it's a huge saving.
 
We are with OVO, gas and electric £80 per month. Myself, wife and dog, 2 showers a day and the norm cooking, heating on from 5am till 6am, 7pm till 8pm. Our smart meter usually about £3.00 per day Monday to Friday and less than £4 per day Saturday and Sunday.
 
MSTRBKR said:
I think switching to LED lights is a big change. One 60W bulb consumes 1kWh in 16-17 hours. On 5W LED bulb consumes 1kWh in 200 hours.

At 13p per kWh the 60W costs about 20p to run for 24 hours. The LED costs 1.5p to run for 24 hours.

LED bulbs are about £3 a pop so they pay for themselves in a couple of months over winter where they'll be used more often. Not going to chop loads off your bill, but over time it's a huge saving.
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Totally agree on the bulbs and was one of the first things I did when I moved into my house. A single room of 4 in ceiling halogens went from 200w to 20w just by swapping to LED bulbs.

I spend between £35-45 (45 in winter) for a two bed terrace for both gas and electric which I think is not too bad.
 
something daft already!! said:
Mine is about 90 for three months in the summer. Winter is quite a bit more but I have electric heating. My PC doesn't seem to use much power and it's on 24/7 running plex.
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Same here its electric only as theres no gas supply around here. Bill varies from £22 mid summer to over a £100 last january. Tumble drier washing machine 18w LED light as the main light in the lounge i.e. the only one thats on for any length of time. So the majority is heating it seems. This months is £59.
 
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