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What is your annual gas and electricity consumption

128 replies

Cosmos123 · 11/09/2022 18:18

We are family of 4.
4 bed semi
Annual usage.
Gas 14,000 kwh
Electricity 4500kwh
Care to share?

OP posts:
BammBamm · 11/09/2022 21:49

12,000 gas. Heating rarely went above 16 last winter. Only does water and heat, no cooking. Use has been extremely low over summer so is purely down to heat as live in an inefficient property.
5,000 electricity which has reduced due to not using tumble dryer and trying to be more careful generally.

BammBamm · 11/09/2022 21:49

Forgot to mention it's a new boiler (1 year old) and is super efficient!

MrsMigginsCat · 11/09/2022 22:05

Last year's figures were:

3238 electric
8367 gas

3 bed terrace, built in the early 90s

Since then we've had a new combi boiler so I'm hoping the gas consumption goes down a little bit this year.

MojoJojo71 · 11/09/2022 22:11

Electricity 2500 kWh
Gas 13500 kWh

just me and DD, 2 bed Victorian flat with big rooms and 12 foot high ceilings. Hob/heating/hot water all gas

popandchoc · 11/09/2022 22:14

Family of 3- myself and 2 children. Small 2 bed detached house.
Electric - 1192 kwh
Gas - 10192 kwh

DeathMetalMum · 11/09/2022 22:47

Family of 4 two bed end terrace. Electric oven and hob.
2021 usage:
Gas 8500
Electricity 3700

Have managed to cut that down a bit this year, hoping (and on track) to knock about 500kwh off the electric. Mostly by not using the tumble dryer. And some off the gas too.

BeesKnee · 12/09/2022 02:06

3 bed house, semi detached.
family of three.

annual usage.
electicity - 746.00
gas - 162.0

pompomdaisy · 12/09/2022 03:09

4 bed 1920s semi. 3-4 adults. Two at home most of the time.

Gas 12238 electric 2282

BarbaraofSeville · 12/09/2022 03:13

@Panicmode1 We got a leaflet saying 'if your boiler is more than 10 years old you could save loads by installing a new efficient one' with a link to work out the time it would take to repay the investment with savings on bills.

As ours is 15 years old I plugged in all the details on the website and it told me their 'new fantastic ultra efficient boiler' would save around £30 a year compared with our 15 YO (admittedly decent quality and efficiency) Worcester Bosch combi boiler so it would take around 20 years for the investment to be paid back.

I went back to plan A of letting it keep going until it needs replacing.

I used an energy monitor to do the same calculation on our 25 YO fridge freezer with knackered seals and it would take about 5 years of electricity savings to repay the replacement cost of that so I do have a vague plan to replace it soon, especially as that was before the April 22 price rises so might be shorter now.

Plus I am curious as to how long it will live, left to it's own devices and obviously there's the environmental cost of disposal of an old appliance.

But to answer the OPs question, we're around 3500 electricity and 12500 gas for all electric cooking, dishwasher and shower. Only gas use is combi boiler central heating.

For 2 adults, one WFH, in a post war small 2 bed semi but with large downstairs kitchen extension that has cavity wall insulation but crap old leaky double glazing.

We're not as careful as we could be so are looking at various tweaks to generally use a bit less as I feel we should be slightly below the numbers the price cap is based on and of course it's because of likely short supply over winter that prices are going up so we need to do our bit.

pompomdaisy · 12/09/2022 03:13

Also we have an electric car charging point so leccy has risen a little

Panicmode1 · 12/09/2022 03:17

@barbaraofsevile interesting thanks. We have the same boiler so I think we will just keep plodding on with it!

FinanceLPlates · 12/09/2022 04:22

I saw this being linked on another thread, about how to optimise boiler settings to save energy/money:

www.theheatinghub.co.uk/articles/turn-down-the-boiler-flow-temperature

I’ve not tried it yet but kept the link to look at again for when the heating comes on.

Alainlechat · 12/09/2022 07:46

Fairly horrified at our electric usage at 7250 per year and gas at 14500, seems way over what anyone else is using.

This is for a small 4 bed (converted bungalow), 2 adults, 3 teen DCs.

Going to be digging into what is causing the high usage..

Itsmeagainyes · 12/09/2022 07:59

Draughty 1920s exposed 3/4 bed house. Family of 3 1 wfh. Gas hob and heating

Electric 3650
Gas 19800

Someoldtwat · 12/09/2022 08:05

3800 KWH - gas
1700 KWH - electric

2 bed, 2 reception house with outdoor gas heated / electric office as we WFH.

Gas is for all hot water, showers and dishes

usernamenotaccepted · 12/09/2022 08:08

Mine is:
GAS - 1,800kwh
ELEC - 7,947

usernamenotaccepted · 12/09/2022 08:10

usernamenotaccepted · 12/09/2022 08:08

Mine is:
GAS - 1,800kwh
ELEC - 7,947

Ah shit, got that arse about face.

GAS - 7947
ELEC - 1800

FreddyHG · 12/09/2022 08:19

3400kwh electricity in a 1950s 2 bed semi I the countryside so no gas. I have a heat pump and solar panels.

BeyondsEnergyObsession · 12/09/2022 08:50

2 adults, 2 kids in a 70s, ex-council, mid terrace, 3 bed house

Gas 12,000 (GCH and hot water)
Elec 6500 (showers, set up for pets, disability equipment)

ColinRobinsonsFart · 12/09/2022 08:52

House is a large Victorian three
bedroomed end of terrace. We are usually just DH and I but we have temporarily had adult DD living here for free ( she became debt ridden so she used the year to pay off her debts and is now living abroad debt free) - she has multiple autoimmune conditions that require the heating to be on a lot. And we have had Ukrainian guests staying who have had a pan on the gas hob constantly for five months.
they have all gone home now so back to DH and I!
we use gas for heating and all cooking. Boiler is three years old. House is old and draughty even with all the lagging etc

gas 20,000 kWh
electriciry 2,500 kWh

which according to my app makes it about £1800 for the year.

we pay £257 a month and am £1200 in credit. I have worked out that the bill for the past 6 months will be about £500 as I paid £1300 last April.

hoping that with lockdown over and I am not at home all day, tweaks to our usage ( started using the instant pot cooker) and lack of ‘guests’ should reduce the amount used.

the heating will be the killer… we have managed to get some (lots) of free wood for our fire in the front room. We are planning to close down rooms we don’t use and concentrate of heating those we do.

it’s like going back to the 1960s and 1970s when I lived in a house with one fire and no heating .

EdHelpPls · 12/09/2022 11:04

Gas 24,000 😱
Electric 3650

2 adults, 2 kids
Usually 2 people home 24/7.
Fairly large 4 bed, 3 reception 1920s detached house.

Was quite draughty and cold but we had renovations just completed that included a fortune on insulation. Hopefully it'll help.
To my shame I never really paid attention til these last few months. I figured we don't eat out, I don't drink or smoke etc so heating was my luxury, but we weren't ridiculous with it. Jumpers first, hot water bottles and extra blankets etc. In winter heating usually sat around 17/18 iirc, except for wee boost in morning and kids bathtime every other day.
I called my gas supplier this morning after reading this thread and they confirmed the figure. (We weren't living here all winter 2021/22 and didn't have old bills from previous winters to get accurate figure)

DogandMog · 12/09/2022 13:07

Me & DH, 4 bed EOT, SW England, this year's stats.

Gas - 7600 kwh
The previous year was around 11,000, so that was just below the national average.

Electric - 885 kwh
Very low as we have solar panels, we have an import/export in-home-energy-monitor and I'm very strategic about using electricity, eg cooking in the afternoon, putting the laundry on on a sunny day etc. I always try to minimise import from the grid during daylight hours. Evening -really just use the laptop, lighting, kettle for bedtime tea/hot water bottle, central heating pump in winter.

BorgQueen · 12/09/2022 13:35

I can’t imagine how people (without any additional needs) use 3x the gas that we do, it’s either lack of insulation or they are having several baths /showers a day and have the heating on 24/7 in winter.
Even when we had an inefficient old boiler and a hot water tank plus DD at home, we only used 30% more gas.
Our loft could probably do with more insulation and more than half our windows are 90’s double glazing. We have concrete floors downstairs so that might help a bit, my late FiL’s house had floorboards and a 5ft void under the house and was always freezing downstairs.

ShortOfShorts · 12/09/2022 14:00

I’ve been wondering that too, Borg. I think it may be that DH has very long showers and also likes a bath with multiple hot water top ups. The other three of us wash, too! Plus we have an old boiler, an Edwardian house and I really feel the cold so will often have the gas fire on all evening once the central heating goes off.

FruitPastilleNut · 12/09/2022 14:06

Elec 5700
Gas 18200

Family of 5, large 3/4 bed detached.

Electric probably won't change - our older dc game, we have an electric oven and hob and a dishwasher and tumble that are used daily.

However, gas - I remember several times last year when we forgot to use the timer on the CH, put it on and then realised hours later we were too warm and sweating and it was still going. A few occasions when we went out and it was on all day and many times where I put it on purely to dry washing on radiators due to being disorganised/needing something dried urgently that wasn't tumble dryer safe, like some uniform.

Safe to say we weren't very careful with it but won't be doing any of that this year! I'm hoping to cut winter usage in half.