Tech guys- What is your electricity bill?

Can anyone give me some advice, I think we're paying too much for Gas/Electric, 4 bedroom house.

From the most recent bill, today, Electric (EDF Energy) has come to £210 for the period of the last 63 days, usage 985 kWh, Gas (British Gas) has come to £197 for the period of the last 73 days, usage 5338 kWh.

Should I consider moving? What suppliers are recommended? Is the price reasonable or too high? Thanks


Your best going with the same provider i find.

There's a big thread here about suppliers, but generally you just need to work out your annual usage and then plug it into Uswitch or some other comparison site.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/forums/threads/energy-suppliers.18712884/


I would say your usage seems high, but it's hard to really know. You could have a huge Bitcoin mining rig on 24/7 :p. But your prices per unit don't look "too" bad"
 
Just do some comparison quotes and see what savings come up, its incredibly easy to switch now.

A lot of people will be getting bigger bills this winter though as it has been pretty cold and so many are working from home.
 
Can anyone give me some advice, I think we're paying too much for Gas/Electric, 4 bedroom house.

From the most recent bill, today.

Electric (EDF Energy) has come to £210 for the period of the last 63 days, usage 985 kWh, 17.02p per kWh and standing charge at 26.85p per day.

Gas (British Gas) has come to £197 for the period of the last 73 days, usage 5338 kWh, 3.115p per kWh and standing charge at 29.195p per day.

Should I consider moving? What suppliers are recommended? Is the price reasonable or too high? Thanks

I would love bills that low, I think our last quarter was about 650 quid for leccy... and we have oil fired central heating! I do use a fair bit of electricity in my hobbies though.
 
This, plug in your annual useage into a comparison site and see what pops out. Make sure you select ‘whole market’ otherwise they may only show you providers they can switch you to (uswitch does this).

Prices vary significantly depending on postcode so any posts suggesting unit prices or a specific company may not be relevant to you. Different providers are cheaper in different locations and your usage.

Switching is easy, just sign up to the new provider and they will do all the work. Takes about 2 weeks normally.

Finding and switching to a new provider should take about 20 mins if you know your usage.
 
sicne WFH was a thing I'm at about £200 for both per month.

I do have 2 gaming pc's running along with a work laptop and a 24/7 server
 
I pay £140 a month for gas and electric. I think my electric is just under 100 of that.

3 in the house. With child. 4 bed townhouse.

We have the tumble going probably once per day on average and the dishwasher the same. Also a server and Sonos through out running 24x7

House is mostly LED too.

Always feel like it's too much, but can seem to reduce it and the plan we're on never seems fair off the best from the comparison sites.
 
Our gas and electricity used to be around £60 a month, on average across the year, 4 bed house with 2 adults and 2 kids.

However, our electricity alone is around £90 a month now, it's mad. When kids go back to school and my girlfriend can go back to work, I'd imagine our bills will go back down to around £80, as I'll still be working from home full-time
 
Winter, hot tub, working from home. Gas and electricity must be somewhere between £150-200 a month. It’ll come down once we’re not working from home and the warmer weather comes.
 
£25/mth for gas and electric even in the winter. So well insulated, the heating barely ever comes on.

Just me and the cat in a two bed flat.
 
Electric around £150 to £200 per month

But a fair bit cheaper in the summer months due to needing much less heating,
Unless i start using the hot tub more this year ( i hardly used it last year)
 
Wonder if anyone has a historical graph of electric / gas unit costs vs the average consumer draw.

Despite electronics becoming more efficient and lighting being all LED it seems that the electricity bill never gets any cheaper.

With electric cars and a move to more homes using electric heating when gas boilers are banned it feels like electric costs are going to be pretty hefty going forward.
 
We are a high usage household. Ours is between £130 - £170 a month for gas and elec combined depending on time of year. Kids with tech. We have a TV in each bedroom. TV in the lounge and kitchen. 3 x PC setups with multiple monitors and games consoles. Also have and use a tumble dryer often twice daily.

I do my best to combat it. I try to have the water and heating come on as little as possible but it's hard over the last year as with constant occupied house, people get cold and also the routine is out the window so we invariably find the water needs to be on a lot to account for random shower demands.

I use smart plugs for the kitchen hot tap to turn it off at night to save energy. Have one on the electric oil heater for the shed, plus on a couple of older TVs which tend to get left on at night and hence switch off at 1am. Also used them for xmas lights and stuff.

I do generally try to buy efficient appliances and electronics where possible and we don't have any incandescent bulbs in the entire house. In fact, we barely have even the CFL tube type bulbs now either. I think almost everything is LED aside from a couple of cooker hood and internal oven lights. I educate my household to turn things the **** off constantly! :) I set the freezer to minus 18 rather than any colder. The fridge is on medium setting and still gets down to 5 degrees. My server is spec'd for efficiency in mind where possible and I do calculate carefully the trade offs in usage vs services and also now mining puts a spin on things.

The tumble dryer I might start measuring actually as I know it will be a killer. It's just so convenient though as hanging out washing to dry in the UK is obviously harder in the non spring/summer months. I don't chase standby items much as having measured things like TV's in standby, it tends to be often under a single watt. They do all add up, but you really are better off going after the big boys:

Tumble dryer
Immersion (rarely used these days by most)
Heating and water obviously
Electric Oil heaters or anything that attempts to heat an element
Kettle usage can add up
Basically all kitchen appliances
Hot tubs cost a bomb to run (hence I don't have one!)

Servers/PCs do add up depending. A lot of people buy "cheap" ex commercial rack servers and bung them in the loft as they are noisy beasts, without realizing they consume a few hundred watts just idling.

Another tip...try to eat together as a family more. My mrs often ends up cooking 4 different things for dinner to account for different tastes and meal times depending on schedules. Waste of energy.
 
Our bills are higher than ever due to shielding and our house getting colder every year and the heating eating more energy to compensate. We have high use at the best of times due to care needs and medical equipment and our latest bill was £131 electric and £47 gas for the month with Out Fox the Market. They are the best tariff for us, locked until October and I dread to think what next winter's bills will be like.
 
My actual electric. KWh cost is 15 quid a month lol but we have some of the highest connection fees ever so the actual bill is closer to 75 quid.
I reckon northern Sweden must have the cheapest electric in Europe? I think I'm paying 4p pkwh
 
‘Tech’ really doesn’t cost very much to run, it’s all the other household stuff that does like tumble dryers, ovens, hobs, washing machines, dish washers etc.
 
My actual electric. KWh cost is 15 quid a month lol but we have some of the highest connection fees ever so the actual bill is closer to 75 quid.
I reckon northern Sweden must have the cheapest electric in Europe? I think I'm paying 4p pkwh

Wow, it's about 15p here, though it sounds like your connection fees make up for it.
 
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