Visualising cost of appliances

[CastleTower]

This will depend on your appliances etc, but I thought this was very useful (from Twitter).

Thank you. Useful and interesting. Looking at the gas central heating cost for 6 hours I would presume its costed on it running almost continually for 6 hours. We have the timer on for 5/6 hours across a 24 hour period but due to the thermostat sitting at 18c not necessarily actually running for the whole period so I don't think will cost as much as this.

We run an iMac and Google chrome book for 8 hours every day WFH and have been surprised how little energy they actually use.

Thanks, for your washing machine it's definitely worth investigating the cycles your machine has. Mine has one cycle (1 hr 60 degrees) that at oct prices would cost 60p, a long cotton cycle at 40 degrees that will cost 35p, and a 1.5hr eco cycle at 20 degrees which will cost 10p! I have a plug in energy monitor I can use to record how much appliances use and it's been really eye opening, and helping us choose what we use better (and notice what really doesn't make any material difference, like the alexas)

Definitely agree - people aren't always good at realising that the long cycles can use less energy for example. Always worth checking the manual.

This is brilliant. First useful thing I have seen about this shitshow.

How about Google home speakers when actively playing the radio?

This is great thanks for posting this

Fantastically useful, thanks!

Minimal, it's things that heat that cost.

Really useful - thank you! Does anyone know if it would be cheaper to use the tumble dryer or a dehumidifier next to the clothes airer to dry washing?

I've been looking at this. The average dehumidifier uses 0.4 kWh, so somewhere around 21p an hour ish. You'd have to run it for around 10 hours to be at the same cost as a tumble drier for an hour.

Thank you @PlantDoctor , that's really helpful. Will use the dehumidifier then 👍

I am planning on using my heating less, but having it on for a couple of hours in the morning and a couple of hours in the evening. The airer will be near the radiator, and I'll put the dehumidifier on for a couple of hours overnight. I'm hoping that I'll be able to dry a week's washing for the cost of a tumble dryer load.

I think the dehumidifier thing is overhyped. I use one and when the weather is damp as it is now, you do have to run it for hours and hours before washing dries. And drying often takes two "overnights". So it's inconvenient and you're taking up space unless you have a room free for that.

Our air con unit is a 3 in one so can be on air con, fan or dehumidifier mode. We've had it years but I've never used the dehumidifier mode, thought might be worth a go this winter as a cheaper alternative.

@tulips27 Google Home speakers use about 2 watts when actively on. So, 6 hours of use is 0.012 kWh, or just 0.6p for six hours of use on the new price cap. Very very minimal cost. Even if you listen all day that's just 1p!

@CatLady2 @PlantDoctor Do remember to check your own tumble dryer, though. I am very lucky to have needed to buy one earlier this year, and it's A+++ efficiency, so it takes only about 80p for a full load (on the new prices, only about 40p now).

Please do check, as this graphic is only indicative.