Try some experiments with the live display of the leccy.
Switch everything off….
One by one, switch everything back on, and see what’s using the most leccy by watching it mount up.
Our baseline is about 220watts, which is fridge, gas boiler and router and a few things on standby. We got to that by closely monitoring for a few days and changed a few habits.
We learnt that a third of our daily leccy is the fridge freezer, big american style, about 10 years old, no desire to change it, (location and size are issues) but i think it’s inefficient.
Habits we changed when we learnt what was causing us lots more. Standby isn’t the great drain we are told. Our big leccy oven, tumble dryer, washing machine and dishwasher are the big costs despite being new and super efficient, so we now use them less frequently. Dishwasher 2 or 3 times a week rather than daily. Washing optimised, air dry some heavier items and finish in dryer. Cut down a bit of TV watching, and added a few candles to the living room, and we now have a few more family games, giggles and chats nights. Gas is a mare, but we all wear more layers now, and like i say, we have candles in living room and surprising the heat they add. We use the little oven for nuggets rather than big oven.
In the summer, i spent about £100 on TAPO energy monitoring plugs, and we can control everything with smart actions and know what’s using what on a longer term basis. Makes life easy when you want to turn things off quickly.
just knowing where it went, meant we reduced our usage to less than 3kwh per day so no more than about £3 a day. And tbh, didn’t really change many habits for the worse. Comparing our outgoings with this time last year, we are spending about the same.
My point is - use what it’s telling you…. Test things…. Understand where it all goes. It takes about 15 seconds for a change to show on the meter…. It’s really not difficult when you finally get a grip on what uses the leccy and how.