How much do you spend on electricity when you're not at home

[DieselBlue89]

Just back from a few days away and the smart meter says we spent £1.50 per day on electricity. Does anyone know if this is normal?
I'm not sure if a smart meter includes some kind of standing charge or if we have a very power hungry fridge/freezer.

I have a smart meter and my usage at the moment is about 80p a day. I go out to work so I'm out during the day.

Your fridge freezer and standing charge (30 - 50 p a day) will take a lot of that.

Plus your wifi if you have it and left it on. Plus all the clocks on your microwave, boiler, oven etc. Burglar alarm, smoke detectors etc?

We went on holiday recently and used 50p/day electricity (approx 1.6kwh). We have an American fridge freezer, Wi-Fi left on etc.

My smart meter resets each night to zero just after midnight. When I get up at 7 o'clock the meter is usually 68p. 49p is the standing charge and the rest is the chest freezer, tall fridge and phones etc charging over night.

It all depends what tariff you’re on. We’re on a variable tariff and used about £1.20 when we were out of the house all day last week. Standard size fridge/freezer and Wi-Fi box switched on. Most of the cost will be the standing charge.

No idea on cost but we were away Monday and used 28.44 kWh, 23.20 electric and 5.24 gas.
Three fridges, the WiFi, hot tub, boiling water tap, vacuum charger and the boiler were on.

I've been measuring this lately in anticipation of the price hikes coming, to see if there's anyway of cutting down.

A day's worth of energy for us when we're not at home is 2.1KwH, which includes fridge freezer, wifi, virgin box (which we don't switch off because it takes so long for them to switch back on) and a couple of other things like lights which come on automatically and oven clock etc. This translates into 75p (including gas and electricity standing charge) at the moment, but in October our cheap tariff runs out and it'll be triple that 😩

I'd recommend buying an energy monitoring plug for a tenner and measuring each device - it's quite interesting.

Thanks for the replies - really helpful. It does seem a bit higher than most and is really going to add up over the year, so I'm going to get an monitoring plug to investigate 🤓

I guess one of the silver linings this energy fiasco will be less energy wastage.

We are with Shell and the standing charge is 23.30p a day for electric. When we were away we were surprised to find we used around £1.30 each day (Chest freezer, fridge, cooker clock, boiler clock, smart meter, digital bedroom clock). Everything else including Wi-Fi was turned off. Our chest freezer is quite old and I think this maybe the issue.