Super boring, but how much KwH do you use daily?

[BigPyjamas]

I know, I know, such an exciting topic but please, how many KwH of electricity do you use daily?

We've used 8 since midday. The internet tells me the average house uses 8-10 daily...I can't work out why ours is so high.

Thank you!

Does anyone have an easy resource that shows the (typically) most energy consuming things in a house?? Want to make some small but big changes so want to focus on the worst culprits and let the lights / chargers go if they're not important

This one lets you calculate consumption based on how long an item is used which help with power greedy items such as kettles which are only used for a short time per day.

www.rapidtables.com/calc/electric/energy-consumption-calculator.html

It's American though so I don't know if that'll make a difference.

Around 15-20 but prob double in the winter with the tumble dryer etc.

I'm the first to hold my hands up and say we're awful for not turning lights off TV left on if no one watching etc etc.

Today's shocker was 22 kwH in the same 2 hr window!

The only things on in that period were our shower, 1x kettle boil, a hair dryer, a phone charger, fridge and freezer (which were on previously)

I did a test on the hot water in the main boiler (separate system to our shower) and it yielded 1-2kwh for 1 hr of water which seems reasonable for an old boiler.

The mystery continues...tomorrow we won't use our shower, will see if that impacts the reading.

I shared a flat with an engineer who set up a carbon rationing scheme. He measured all appliances etc with an energy monitor and o work out their real hourly usage. You can get them at Amazon.

You plug it into the socket and then the appliance into it, move it round one by one. Then the remaining hardwired in things you can do one at a time.

It’s easier/quicker than switching everything off and back on one by one.