Do you know your annual gas / electric usage in kwh ???

[HuffyPuffyStuffy]

A lot of people don't seem to know how much energy they actually use per year. but if you do would you share for comparison?
Family of 2 adults and 2 teens, lots of gaming and computer use, both adults WFH. We have a semi-detached 1930s bungalow with gas central heating (combi boiler) a gas hob and all our water for showers is heated by gas. We have an electric oven, tumble dryer, large fridge freezer plus extra freezer and lots of gadgets!

Annual usage is approx
Gas 11,000 kwh
Elec 6,500 kwh

Not yet, we moved about 8/9 weeks ago. Gone from (too fucking stressed to remember the proper title) sunlight panels that covered the costs to an air pump heat source which is bloody expensive 🤦‍♀️

6 of us in 5 bed house.
9,500 Electric
11,000 Gas

Currently renovating, so living in a single glazed, non-insulated, old static caravan in the garden! Workmen are using cement mixers, drills and all manner of plugged in electrical things that I can see zoom up the the price on the smart meter!

Electric 3400 kWh year
Gas- using those large, gas cylinders. In mid winter we were using 1 every 2-3 weeks. In summer, 1 every 3mths.

3 of us including adult dd, one working from home ft, one working from home some of the time Average sized 3 bed semi

Electricity approx 1100 kWh

Gas - don't know but minimal (gas cooker only - we have wood fired CH/HW)

We have 2 kW of PV panels so daytime electricity use covered by that for much of the summer. Though to set against that electricity use in spring is bumped up by 3 x large electric propagators which I run for work from now through into April as I'm a market gardener & no mains at the growing site.

Will be making more effort to time washing machine & dishwasher use for when it's sunny in the future!

Just checked and gas was 1600 kWh last year (gas hob & oven)

Electric 1698 kw
Gas 10991 kw

Small 2 bed house , me and 2 kids .

Looking at my bill
5300 kWh electricity
6800 kWh gas

Terraced house how is everyones electricity so low?

"how is everyones electricity so low?"
A lot of it is about how our house is set up so things like

• boring old fashioned lighting rather than modern halogen/ multiple spotlights (we do have LED bulbs everywhere)
• high efficiency central heating pump
• do have a freezer but it's a small chest freezer & is in an outdoors shed (obviously not an option for lots of people)
• no tumble drier (have a garden with washing line and no circumstances requiring lots of washing)
• showers run off the domestic hot water

etc. Very little of it is about discretionary use/otherwise tbh.

Loooooool. We are in a large Victorian house, 250sqm approx, half of which has been effectively open to the elements downstairs for the entire winter due to doing major renovation work - heating the remainder of the house with a gas combi boiler - gas is 40,000kwh in the last year! Do I win?

Thankfully, as part of said renovation we have (sympathetically) installed a fairly hefty amount of insulation and a large wood burner, as well as very energy efficient appliances, double glazed the entire house, installed low U value aluminium doors in a couple of places, draughtproofed throughout and my job for the summer Is to make/buy thick curtains and thermal blinds for all the windows - so next winter the usage should drop dramatically. I’m only thankful that by the time the price cap rise kicks in the heating will be firmly off for the spring/summer and I will be giving meter readings aplenty!

Electricity we normally only use around £2.50-£4 a day - unsure of exact KWH - and that’s with a heat pump tumble dryer, washing machine and dishwasher on at least 5x a week each.

2 adults, 1 WFH 2 days, and 3 DCs under 12. 4 bed detached house built late 90s.

Elec 5050
Gas 12000

I'm worried as we're currently with Bulb, and have nearly £300 of credit built up even over winter, but our LL wants the house back and fuck knows what tariff we'll end up on with another provider.

Around 12,000 electric and 6,000 gas. Electric cooker and gas CH and HW (quite low usage for the size of our family on heat and hot water as we're very frugal with it). 2 adults and 3 teens.

@whiteworldgettingwhiter

More info - 5 bed house, 2 teens, 2 adults. We both wfh but neither have heating on in our offices! We only have 4 radiators on downstairs... and 4 upstairs. Keep heating at 19 degrees.

How many hours a day is the heating on? Do you have doors to offices and other unheated rooms closed?

@Svara, heating tends to be on all day at 18 degrees. Might looking into putting it off overnight and parts of the day.

No doors closed, no.

15000 gas
10000 electricity
5 bedroom house with 5-6 people (dc at uni) and electric car

Gas: 15800
Electric:6500

Three bed Victorian semi, 2 adults, 2 primary kids and I WFH full time.

13,500 kWh gas
3,600 kWh electricity.

@whiteworldgettingwhiter

No doors closed, no.

I don't think you will save anything by not heating offices if they are open to the rest of the house. It's not about the number of radiators on, it's about whether the boiler is on, which will be whenever the thermostat drops below the temperature it's set to. Adjusting radiators directs where you want the most heat, but I think turning them off only saves money if those rooms are shut off from the rest of the house.

Ours is on for an hour in the morning and two in the evening but I don't wfh. Box bedroom is unheated but the door is shut. Door to my bedroom (third story) is shut when the heating is on in the evening so we lose less heat to up there.

2,850 electric
1,572 gas

gas 0
electricity 10838
Electricity is literally my only household build that can't be opted out of so I don't mind at the moment.

From October 2020 to October 2021 we used
4300 kWh electric
18500 kWh gas

We have a 4 bed semi, 2 adults 2kids. Gas boiler and water tank, gas fire and hob. Electric over and shower and dishwasher. We have a washer dryer but very rarely use the dryer.
We’ve massively cut back on putting the heating on though. We have a hive thermostat and hive plus and it tells me that in January 2021 we had the heating on in total for 232 hours through out the month where as last month we only had it on for 81 hours in total for the month!

This has been interesting as I must admit I knew what we pay but not useage kWh, so just checked.

Electric 4000 kWh
Just looked at new tariffs from April and rise. Are people fixing or staying on a variable tariff ?

We have no mains gas here and use Oil and that’s been expensive for years.

@Badnightguaranteed

estimated cost is nearly 6k for the year
I have got quite a good feed in Tariff for the solar panels which helps a little.

I havent upped by DD yet as my account is still be switched over. I moved my provider when I moved house and managed to pick one that went bust. Kicking myself I didn't just pick a fixed tariff at the time!

we are just being really careful to only heat the rooms we are in. The joy of electric is they heat quick

Good luck!

Think our gas is the highest on here!

Gas 22,000
Elec 2,500

6 of us in a 3 bed.

Think it's going to be lots of jumpers come the autumn.

Uurgh we need an edit button. Elec is 3500