£10 a day on electricity

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That's what I'm hitting now. On a smart meter and they won't let me change.

Large family, but small terraced house.
It's so stressful.

We have all become too accustomed to cheap energy. £10 a day is what many people spend buying their coffee on the way to work, a sandwich etc.

Circa £10 a day for energy is here to stay.

Many people don't have £10 a day to spend on lunch! Just because the rich are spending that on coffee doesn't mean everyone can afford to spend the same on energy.

Energy wasn't "cheap" previously, it cost what it cost global circumstances have changed and now it costs more but the concept of cheap/expensive doesn't really apply. Affordable is a more appropriate word imo

@Aquivers No I know spends £10 a day on lunch yet alone electric!

£10 a day electric is extortionate!

Drying clothes on radiators - nooooooh - mould, damp, quality of life, quality of the fabric of your home, where do you think the water goes - heaven? It goes to your cold spots to condense, walls ceilings furniture, then to mould, then to your lungs

Yes of course and if you stop eating avocado on toast you could save a deposit for a house too.

Ours is between £3.50-£5.50. We live in a well insulated detached new build. We’ve got solar panels which, so far this month, have generated 65KWH. It’s crap compared to the summer months when we were generating hundreds and hundreds per month and selling electricity back to the grid but it helps 🤷‍♀️

I think there must be a problem with your meter. £10 a day is way too high from what you've said you use.

With immersion heater, gaming pcs, Xboxes, electric car, tumble dryer and no solar panels our daily cost is half yours.

Incidentally, do you have figures for usage and not just cost?

Ours was almost £10 yesterday for just electricity (and we have the delight of insane oil prices for heating on top of that).
I was shocked, but know it must have been real activity as spend was very low on the days we've been away, so we don't have an appliance drawing unexpected power to blame.

Culprits:

• load washed at 60 degrees during the day
• Lakeland heated airer (costs 41p an hour and it was on for 2.5 hours)
• Induction hob used for dinner
• Hairdryer used for 10 mins

Aside from those things, nothing unusual was used, and today's usage so far without any of that is still under £2 at almost 3pm.

It really sucks. I feel for you, OP. We can afford it and we don't have kids to worry about or keep warm, but I think it's an outrage that people are having to choose between dry clothes and cooking their dinner. Even vacuuming is a luxury!
I despair at the world.

(Saying that, I have no idea how a PP with immersion heater, tumble drier and electric car can only be spending £5 given ours is never under £7. We have none of those devices!). Maybe different energy companies present data differently on their smart meters?)