A smart plug that measures consumption is your best bet.
Mine uses a little under a kWh a day, but if we round that up for easy maths is 365kWh a year, with a rough unit cost of 30p gives me a yearly running cost of £109.50.
This is getting ridiculous (energy prices - Strictly NO referrals!)
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A smart plug that measures consumption is your best bet.
Mine uses a little under a kWh a day, but if we round that up for easy maths is 365kWh a year, with a rough unit cost of 30p gives me a yearly running cost of £109.50.
Soldato
Time to look up my fridge rating 
I'm a northern ape
If it doesn't come out clean it means you are one of those heathens who can't stack a dishwasher properly
I'm a northern ape
Soldato
Soldato
Save money get a LG Instaview 
Soldato
For me...
Tall fridge (no freezer) - 149KWH / Year
Chest freezer - 189KWH / Year
Combined both are using about 1kwh per day
I barely use the freezer as most the food I cook is fresh, however it is convenient to have for the usual easy cook bits and pieces. It may have to go.
Tall fridge (no freezer) - 149KWH / Year
Chest freezer - 189KWH / Year
Combined both are using about 1kwh per day
I barely use the freezer as most the food I cook is fresh, however it is convenient to have for the usual easy cook bits and pieces. It may have to go.
Soldato
I'd be quite surprised if it is.
Soldato
I think you'll still find most family homes do have a dish washer, some even have names.
On a more serious note I think you'll likely find most low income/council housing families do not have a dish washer as the kitchens are often not big enough.
My sister recently moved into a 3 bed new build with a decent size kitchen, it didn't have space or plumbing for a dish washer.
Correct, you can also stabilise the temperature in a greenhouse doing the exact same thing, although most would recommend barrels rather than jugs or bottles!
Caporegime
My point is that there is little point in everyone in the UK optimising their energy use to the nth degree when in the US they still consider anything over 30mpg an economical car and run air con to keep their homes a bit cooler all summer.
You don't micro optimise until the macro is sorted.
If you want people to lose quality of life and spend more time doing things to save a tiny bit of energy, you probably don't want people saying "Americans use 3x the amount you did when you didn't give many *****" and it be true.
Soldato
Just checked the back of my fridge freezer and the cooling element was lagged in thick dust, just given it good clean, hopefully that will help.
Soldato
If everyone in the UK is able to half their electric usage by being more economical with what they do that is a huge amount over a year regardless. So it might be a micro to a personal basis but is still a macro to the the UK as a whole.
Hi all, I wonder if anyone could offer some advice or point me to somewhere I can get some.
So, my fixed price contact ends later this month with Eon and u have been offered 3 new options, 1 flex contract and 2 fixed. I'm unsure whether it's best to continue on a fixed contract which with be more expensive per month or go on a flex contract which per month at the moment would be cheaper.
How can I work out what the best approach is?
Many thanks.
Here's the info I can see, is this what's needed? Thanks
Current Ends 23/4 - Currently paying £210.00 a month
Electricity - 16.60 p/kWh 18.90 p/day - Usage 5,419kWh
Gas - 2.91 p/kWh 17.43 p/day - Usage 8,637kWh
Next Flex - £204.71 a month
Electricity - 29.24p per kWh 37.92p per day
Gas - 7.34p per kWh 27.22p per day
Next Online v13 - £283.34
Electricity - 41.81p per kWh 37.92p per day
Gas - 10.38p per kWh 27.22p per day
Next 1 Year v10 - £340.20
Electricity - 48.29p per kWh 39.00p per day
Gas - 14.40p per kWh 21.58p per day
So, my fixed price contact ends later this month with Eon and u have been offered 3 new options, 1 flex contract and 2 fixed. I'm unsure whether it's best to continue on a fixed contract which with be more expensive per month or go on a flex contract which per month at the moment would be cheaper.
How can I work out what the best approach is?
Many thanks.
Here's the info I can see, is this what's needed? Thanks
Current Ends 23/4 - Currently paying £210.00 a month
Electricity - 16.60 p/kWh 18.90 p/day - Usage 5,419kWh
Gas - 2.91 p/kWh 17.43 p/day - Usage 8,637kWh
Next Flex - £204.71 a month
Electricity - 29.24p per kWh 37.92p per day
Gas - 7.34p per kWh 27.22p per day
Next Online v13 - £283.34
Electricity - 41.81p per kWh 37.92p per day
Gas - 10.38p per kWh 27.22p per day
Next 1 Year v10 - £340.20
Electricity - 48.29p per kWh 39.00p per day
Gas - 14.40p per kWh 21.58p per day
How is next flex less than your current payment when the rates are a lot higher? Doesnt make sense.
Soldato
probably within a week it will be 4x as much. It is flex after all
Well its SVR isnt it.
Soldato
Maybe they are in credit so the £210 isnt the used amount but the DD
Soldato
100% Just because others aren't very good at it why shouldn't we continue to make our own efforts. No one has mentioned about quality of life reductions, just simple effective things which most of us have never really had to think about, can make a difference to the climate and the wallet.
Caporegime
A 50% saving is not a small scale change here and there for most people. Thats a massive and probably unachievable change for most in the UK. We could get nowhere near that unless we didn't drive to a lot of things i.e we didn't do a lot of things. I would wager most people are the same.
When I am talking micro vs macro I mean that someone in the UK saving 10% off their already 66% lower energy usage vs their US counterpart means that they might go from lets say 3.3 down to 3 whereas an American cutting down an easy 20% probably just by using a car that gets more than 3MPG would make a massively larger difference going from 10 -> 8. If a company is looking to save a lot of money they don't ask people not to use too many pens, they cut business class flights and expensive client meals and get smaller offices. You target the big spends first and then you worry about micro optimising.
I'm sure there are some people who have huge carbon footprints in the UK but they are unlikely to cut back or care because they are likely rich. Most of us don't have that much fat to trim which is why I am saying that trying to get people in the UK to cut their emissions / usage a lot is silly when countries like the US are still really really bad.