Energy bill increases

[presta]

I'm afraid I'm a dinosaur Definitely still drive, cycle and run in miles. Running a kilometre just means nothing to me. I like to see how many minutes per mile for running.

I'm not anti-metric, I'd be quite happy to use kilometres, but I'm not going to make things inconvenient by using different units to all the road signs.

 

[presta]

My calculation works and is derived directly from energy monitor on my desk…….i use 100watts per hour…..so over 7hrs i use 700watts and therefore 7/10ths of a kilowatt hour

7/10ths of a kilowatt hour is 21p……

As @DaveReading says, watts are a measure of power, ie: rate of change of energy, and watt hours are energy. You are muddling the two at random.

"I use 100watts per hour…..so over 7hrs I use 700watt hours and therefore 7/10ths of a kilowatt hour"

 

[jowwy]

As @DaveReading says, watts are a measure of power, ie: rate of change of energy, and watt hours are energy. You are muddling the two at random.

"I use 100watts per hour…..so over 7hrs I use 700watt hours and therefore 7/10ths of a kilowatt hour"

No im not…..and everyone else gets it, just the usual nitpicking from some

 

[winjim]

It irks me a bit too, but the fact is many people don't understand the bills they're already getting, let alone the difference between power and energy, or that a watt is a joule per second. In your head, it's quicker to find the cost of a 100W lamp for an hour at 50p/kWh, than at 14p/MJ because you don't have to convert between hours and seconds.

A bit like miles or kilometres per hour rather than metres per second.

Yeah I know, it's more something I find funny to be a smartarse about really.

 

[Regular.Cyclist]

No im not…..and everyone else gets it, just the usual nitpicking from some

To be fair you are confusing terms, however the confusion isn’t uncommon and people get the gist of what is being said.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

The downside is that method generates large numbers very quickly requiring more digits to be displayed on the meter.

My, rather modest, annual electricity consumption is estimated at 2,178 kWh. 7,840,800 kj begins to look like telephone numbers 😂.

Well you just change that to 7840mJ

 

[Regular.Cyclist]

Well you just change that to 7840mJ

unfortunately it’s never going to happen as it would require every meter to be changed, or at least reconfigured.

Highly off topic but you see the mess they are making for the rollout of smart meters.

The current systems works despite it not being perfect.

 

[winjim]

Well you just change that to 7840mJ

7.841 × 10^9 kg m^2 s^-2

 

[ColinJ]

Well you just change that to 7840mJ

Those are milliJoules - you want MegaJoules - MJ!

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Those are milliJoules - you want MegaJoules - MJ!

Powered by Pendants 😂

 

[fossyant]

Jesus H Christ, this topic has gone way off.

I've just ordered a couple of plug in adapters to monitor electric to see whats using the most power. Given the 50p per unit coming in, some 'nice to haves' are being switched off. We've already cut electric use by half. Well worth monthly monitoring of use with a spreadsheet. Ive only got data from February, so be interesting to see the increases over winter.

My nephew's employer, well known chef, just had a £23k bill for one quarter, for his unit where they prep food for events, not the 4 or 5 restaurants. He initially thought there was an extra zero.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

use with a spreadsheet.

That’ll be half your electric use

 

[jowwy]

Jesus H Christ, this topic has gone way off.

I've just ordered a couple of plug in adapters to monitor electric to see whats using the most power. Given the 50p per unit coming in, some 'nice to haves' are being switched off. We've already cut electric use by half. Well worth monthly monitoring of use with a spreadsheet. Ive only got data from February, so be interesting to see the increases over winter.

My nephew's employer, well known chef, just had a £23k bill for one quarter, for his unit where they prep food for events, not the 4 or 5 restaurants. He initially thought there was an extra zero.

I use a spreadsheet for the same reason as you fossy…….

 

[Deleted member 26715]

My nephew's employer, well known chef, just had a £23k bill for one quarter, for his unit where they prep food for events, not the 4 or 5 restaurants. He initially thought there was an extra zero.

I feel the same in some restaurants,

 

[vickster]

Jesus H Christ, this topic has gone way off.

I've just ordered a couple of plug in adapters to monitor electric to see whats using the most power. Given the 50p per unit coming in, some 'nice to haves' are being switched off. We've already cut electric use by half. Well worth monthly monitoring of use with a spreadsheet. Ive only got data from February, so be interesting to see the increases over winter.

My nephew's employer, well known chef, just had a £23k bill for one quarter, for his unit where they prep food for events, not the 4 or 5 restaurants. He initially thought there was an extra zero.

Have his electricity rates risen 10 fold?