To ask what your gas and electric costs are each month?

[CaptainBenson]

I'm just curious really!

Mine is £99 combined direct debit per month based on estimated use and I'm in credit which is handy for over the winter.

3 bed house, two adults, one child.

I'm just wondering if what I'm paying is about average.

£157 a month, combined.
Small 3 bedroom end terrace, but autistic child that doesn't like clothes, so we need the heating on quite a bit.
Also have the worst rated energy on all our appliances.

No mains gas where we live, and so we're all electric (there is a coal fire which I currently refuse to use and will soon not be able to anyway). All electric houses always have to pay more overall, even with economy 7.
Welcome to the future when they phase out gas. 😵‍💫
We have just had new heaters installed and are awaiting new boiler.

How is everyone's so cheap?
Mine right now is 140 and we haven't even started putting th heating on.
In Jan this year it was 280
4 bed terrace

134 per month. 2.5 bed maisonette but no double glazing, very cold!

It will depend on house age, location, standing charge in your area, supplier etc.
We live in one of the coldest locations in the UK so we need heating earlier, standing charge is higher, we have no mains gas etc.

£120 at the moment. We paid £260 last winter with the heating on

Me too. Always have, always will (hopefully).
Helped me in various previous jobs working with numbers all day. 😬

We're £115 DD a month this is for both from same supplier. 2 bed bungalow...generally in credit most of the time.

In some locations that would mean using virtually no energy once you take off standing charges. Makes me realise how the uneven standing charge across the country/suppliers is ridiculous.

£145 per month- my DD27 is disabled and in all day, using multiple tech etc and can't get cold as it makes her conditions worse. Am in credit by £200+ ready for Winter which means I won't have to pay any more than what I pay atm.

Mine is because it is really well insulated and once it is warm 'holds' the heat. And as I said I don't notice the cold as much as other people.

I've also just signed up to EDF's 'Sunday Saver' this is my first week and I will be getting free electricity on Sunday 8am to 4pm so I thing there will be more washing and drying and charging and dishwashing going on.

You need to be with EDF and you need to cut down on week day use between 4pm to 7pm. For me this is great, I often have a nap around then and I don't work. I realise for a family with young children 4pm - 7pm it is virtually impossible to cut down.

3 bed semi, 2 adults 3 children.

Elec only economy 7 tariff as no mains gas here.

Summer £100 DD
Winter £250-300 month depending on how cold it is.
Currently in credit which should cover extra winter if it's not too cold.

We have smart heating and a wood burner so try to limit heating and will heat some rooms at night only to protect from frost.

£190 DD, we have a large surplus at the moment and £26 of the cost is standing charge. Large house, 2 adults WFH and 1 child. Lots of screens and large TV, some heat leakage by the roof, but apart from that fairly efficient and our house is kept consistently warm by the Nest. The overall annual gas and electricity cost is less than the previous cost of one of us commuting for 190 days per year (still a few days commuting needed each month).

£185. Large 4 bed detached. I wfh and we charge 2x electric cars.

£250 a month - 6 of us in a 5 bed detached.

Mine is £150pcm and I'm £600 in credit! I requested a refund which is currently being processed. I'm quite frugal with my use of electricity/gas so I still think £150pcm is too much. I think £100pcm is probably about right, but I'll get through winter first and then reassess.

£134 per month direct debit with utility warehouse. 3 bed with 3 of us living there, we are a just over £300 in credit.

sorry I should add my son and I are in a 3 bed 1970s end terrace so it's quite well insulated and I WFH.

Gas: right now ~ 60/month, average over the year ~£20/month
Electric: right now ~ zero, average over the year ~£180 credit each month

Get solar panels if you possibly can. Even this time of year mine generate enough power for all my daytime electricity needs and top up the battery a bit for night times

£157 all electric air source heat pump, wood burner free wood. Retired so home a lot. 2 bed 2 bath well insulated barn conversion.

6 solar panels and batteries seem to cost about £10,000 plus - are they really worth it in UK

How can you have no electricity standing charge?

We have a victorian 5 bed semi that leaks heat and has high ceilings.
great in the summer but there is a lot of space to heat in the winter
4 of us, annual use about 4000kWh electricity and 23,000kWh gas with heating at 19 dec. is about £240 pcm
pre covid heating house to 21 would use 33,000kWh gas and we’d be paying £130 pcm 😭

You can get paid for solar energy so that credit covers the standing charge.

Solar panels have made quite a difference to me. Estimate is about £500 to £600 of value per year (some from being used, quite a lot from expert via octopus SEG tariff).
They were £6500 to install so about 11 years to break even, then any more will be profit.

My calculations on a battery look like a 12 year break even, but batteries are warrantied for 10 years and then you need to dispose of the thing. Being paid to export to the grid is a lot simpler.

Yeah, I miss gas at 2.2p/kWh. I don't know why I never cranked the dial to 25c and lived in shorts.