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To ask what your gas and electric costs are each month?

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CaptainBenson · 13/10/2024 17:33

I'm just curious really!

Mine is £99 combined direct debit per month based on estimated use and I'm in credit which is handy for over the winter.

3 bed house, two adults, one child.

I'm just wondering if what I'm paying is about average.

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trainboundfornowhere · 17/10/2024 18:40

trainboundfornowhere · 13/10/2024 21:36

£98.33 combined a month. We live in a 2 bed 1960s cottage flat. Sometimes known as a four in a block.

I added my monthly reading’s yesterday. £150 in credit and as our tariff was ending we have switched to a new tariff £112 a month for the next year.

WillowTit · 17/10/2024 06:34

only had the heating on once this autumn
dont own a tumble drier

WillowTit · 17/10/2024 05:21

£126
£300 in credit - which is not huge
2 of us, now 3, adult dd home

Copperoliverbear · 17/10/2024 05:07

By the way I mean the gas is just over £60 a week not the rent.

Copperoliverbear · 17/10/2024 05:04

My gas is in with my rent just over £60 per week and electric between £100 and £120 a month

Ladyof2024 · 17/10/2024 02:18

£334 pm for gas and electricity. Four adults in house.

happybee1 · 17/10/2024 02:05

Pay £176, 3/4 bed Edwardian detached with family of 5 but we are not in credit so they are putting it up to £220 😞. It seems we are paying top end prices, may have to look at comparison sites.

justjuggling · 17/10/2024 01:40

I pay monthly for what we’ve used. Last months was just under £100 combined. 3 bed semi, me + 2 teenagers.

snowmichael · 17/10/2024 01:30

wiesowarum · 16/10/2024 13:03

How can you have no electricity standing charge?

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Standing charge can't be higher than consumption charge

KimberleyClark · 16/10/2024 14:16

KimberleyClark · 16/10/2024 14:08

We went all electric in April. No gas at all now. Not cheap initially but should pay for itself. Had our first quarterly bill £250. So 62.50 per month. 3 bed semi 2 adults.

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Correction £83 a month. Still good though.

KimberleyClark · 16/10/2024 14:08

We went all electric in April. No gas at all now. Not cheap initially but should pay for itself. Had our first quarterly bill £250. So 62.50 per month. 3 bed semi 2 adults.

SqueamishHamish · 16/10/2024 14:07

£200 a month combined. 3 bed semi. 2 adults and 2 children. A little bit of credit. Surprised some of these figures are so low.

Beezknees · 16/10/2024 13:59

My direct debit is £113 per month. Actual usage varies from around £60pm in summer months, £200pm in the coldest months. I am in a 2 bed flat but it's all electric and electric heating is pricier.

ByMerryKoala · 16/10/2024 13:54

Yeah, I miss gas at 2.2p/kWh. I don't know why I never cranked the dial to 25c and lived in shorts.

Rollercoaster1920 · 16/10/2024 13:52

You can get paid for solar energy so that credit covers the standing charge.

Solar panels have made quite a difference to me. Estimate is about £500 to £600 of value per year (some from being used, quite a lot from expert via octopus SEG tariff).
They were £6500 to install so about 11 years to break even, then any more will be profit.

My calculations on a battery look like a 12 year break even, but batteries are warrantied for 10 years and then you need to dispose of the thing. Being paid to export to the grid is a lot simpler.

Wherearemymarbles · 16/10/2024 13:51

We have a victorian 5 bed semi that leaks heat and has high ceilings.
great in the summer but there is a lot of space to heat in the winter
4 of us, annual use about 4000kWh electricity and 23,000kWh gas with heating at 19 dec. is about £240 pcm
pre covid heating house to 21 would use 33,000kWh gas and we’d be paying £130 pcm 😭

wiesowarum · 16/10/2024 13:03

snowmichael · 16/10/2024 10:20

Gas: right now ~ 60/month, average over the year ~£20/month
Electric: right now ~ zero, average over the year ~£180 credit each month

Get solar panels if you possibly can. Even this time of year mine generate enough power for all my daytime electricity needs and top up the battery a bit for night times

How can you have no electricity standing charge?

Notaflippinclue · 16/10/2024 12:36

6 solar panels and batteries seem to cost about £10,000 plus - are they really worth it in UK

Notaflippinclue · 16/10/2024 12:34

£157 all electric air source heat pump, wood burner free wood. Retired so home a lot. 2 bed 2 bath well insulated barn conversion.

snowmichael · 16/10/2024 10:20

Gas: right now ~ 60/month, average over the year ~£20/month
Electric: right now ~ zero, average over the year ~£180 credit each month

Get solar panels if you possibly can. Even this time of year mine generate enough power for all my daytime electricity needs and top up the battery a bit for night times

mumtoadhdasdboy · 16/10/2024 10:20

mumtoadhdasdboy · 16/10/2024 10:16

Mine is £150pcm and I'm £600 in credit! I requested a refund which is currently being processed. I'm quite frugal with my use of electricity/gas so I still think £150pcm is too much. I think £100pcm is probably about right, but I'll get through winter first and then reassess.

sorry I should add my son and I are in a 3 bed 1970s end terrace so it's quite well insulated and I WFH.

MaybeItsBecauseImALodoner · 16/10/2024 10:19

£134 per month direct debit with utility warehouse. 3 bed with 3 of us living there, we are a just over £300 in credit.

mumtoadhdasdboy · 16/10/2024 10:16

Mine is £150pcm and I'm £600 in credit! I requested a refund which is currently being processed. I'm quite frugal with my use of electricity/gas so I still think £150pcm is too much. I think £100pcm is probably about right, but I'll get through winter first and then reassess.

Itsacrazyworldisntit · 16/10/2024 10:14

£250 a month - 6 of us in a 5 bed detached.

EveryDayisFriday · 16/10/2024 08:56

£185. Large 4 bed detached. I wfh and we charge 2x electric cars.