Gas and electric daily use

[presta]

In January I average about 6kWh/day electricity, and 82kWh/day gas:

I use the excellent ' octopus Watch " App. It shows daily usage and cost, peak / offpeak usage, standing charge / min / max / average temperatures on a daily basis. You can also generate reports with customisable dates which is really useful.
Here are a couple of screen shots, in the app you can drill down deeper. The 27th December box shows a credit as we generated more than we used as we were away.

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Is that part of their Kraken system that's been so successful they've decided to split it off and run it as a separate company?

 

[johnnyb47]

In this cold snap in getting through around £6.50 a day.
When I get back to work tomorrow after the Christmas break it will probably drop off to around £5.50.
During the summer I tend to use around £2 50.
I find just boiling the kettle a few times a day knocks the price up ,but at Christmas the brother-in-law bought me a Breville hot cup dispenser.
It's essentially a kettle, but you dial in the amount of water you need to fill a cup and press the button.
The kettle will boil from cold the set amount of water in around 15 seconds and dumps it into your cup..
A lot cheaper than using the kettle Everytime

 

[Tenkaykev]

In January I average about 6kWh/day electricity, and 82kWh/day gas:

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Is that part of their Kraken system that's been so successful they've decided to split it off and run it as a separate company?

It's not an Octopus app, it just uses the API to pull the raw data from Octopus.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

£93.31 a month,

That is very good!
I am a single person's household, work 6 days a week (so out of the house), pay £87 with Octopus.
My smart meter display is unplugged, away in a cupboard.
Whatever it says, I'm not going to freeze in my home, or stop cooking and baking, having showers and doing washings lol
No point in looking at it.

 

[Drago]

That is very good!
I am a single person's household, work 6 days a week (so out of the house), pay £87 with Octopus.
My smart meter display is unplugged, away in a cupboard.
Whatever it says, I'm not going to freeze in my home, or stop cooking and baking, having showers and doing washings lol
No point in looking at it.

Im very anal with energy use, and being at home alone during the day helps. LED lighting all round, energy efficient appliances. Since Mrs D changed jobs her mileage has plummeted so the car charging has reduced.

Well take a bit a spanking on the gas with our heating this quarter, but we're credit on the account with that in mind so £80 pound DD a month on gas, even during the summer when were using virtually none, does very nicely.

 

[Regular.Cyclist]

Could not tell you daily use but my direct debits, for two homes, total £114.08 per month and, between both accounts, are currently £490.24 in credit.

 

[midlandsgrimpeur]

Don't get me started on energy providers. Previous owners submitted incorrect electricity readings when they left (unbeknownst to me). I had been submitting correct readings. For some inexplicable reason, after 18 months, BG suddenly reverted to the previously submitted incorrect readings and issued me a bill for £2500! Cue 8 months of emails, phone calls, BG constantly telling me the statement would be corrected and issued in 7 days. Eventually had to go to the Ombudsman. Amazingly within 2 hours of the OBM logging the complaint with BG it was resolved!

Anyway, average 8.5kwh a day on electricity ( all year round) and about 50kw gas a day in the winter months (virtually nothing in the summer, pay about £10 a month including standing charge from March to October)

 

[briantrumpet]

Im very anal with energy use...

😬

 

[biggs682]

Our solar panels are just starting to export so free electricity

 

[Pblakeney]

That is very good!
I am a single person's household, work 6 days a week (so out of the house), pay £87 with Octopus.
My smart meter display is unplugged, away in a cupboard.
Whatever it says, I'm not going to freeze in my home, or stop cooking and baking, having showers and doing washings lol
No point in looking at it.

This.
£112.46/month combined energy for a retired couple at home and heating on 24/7 while is close to 0C. Still £250 in credit.

 

[wormo]

Electric £4 per day including standing charge. Gas currently higher. We work from home with numerous IT equipment so electric a bit higher than normal.

 

[fossyant]

Mine is a lot because we have a hot tub. Gas is cheap, electricity is not. It's come down a bit since we've one less adult in the house. Still in credit but the combined bill is about £300pm. I've a smart plug on a few energy munching devices, and the hot tub will consume upto 17KW a day (£4-£5 a day).

 

[biggs682]

Mine is a lot because we have a hot tub. and the hot tub will consume upto 17KW a day (£4-£5 a day).

Ouch

 

[BoldonLad]

That is very good!
I am a single person's household, work 6 days a week (so out of the house), pay £87 with Octopus.
My smart meter display is unplugged, away in a cupboard.
Whatever it says, I'm not going to freeze in my home, or stop cooking and baking, having showers and doing washings lol
No point in looking at it.

When we had a Smart Meter fitted (a condition of our then tariff) the Fitter tried to tell me it would reduce my bills. I pointed out to him that unless it was going to physically prevent Mrs @BoldonLad from blasting away with a 3kw hairdryer and straighteners for a hour everyday, I very much doubted that claim 😂

We are retired, so, home most of the time. Two adults in a modern (38 years old) 4 bed detached house. Cavity wall insulation, loft insulation, double glazed. No car charging. Gas Heating on 7 days a week for 15 hours per day, thermostats in living room set at 23c. We pay £130/month by DD, and, are currently £260 in credit. That latter information is not known to Mrs @BoldonLad, otherwise she would be wanting the thermostat up a notch. 😂

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Im very anal with energy use

You’re mostly gas then?