January energy bill

[NewBootsAndRanty]

How was yours?

For me:

1 bed flat with just me in it. Heating on at 21 in the day, 18 overnight this year for health reasons. Tumble dryer used once a week.

Gas 1570kwh / £160.77 (last year 706kwh)

Electric 56kwh / £18.49 (last year 149kwh)

Standing charges £23.16

£202.42 altogether, so about what I expected.

Bulb

£281 since Jan 08th

three bed, three people, wfh most days

it’s costly but when I think about it… that covers electricity and heating for a month… so every light turned on, every kettle boiled, shower had etc… and then compare with what I’ve spent on much much less “needed” things this past month… including some make up, deposit for a holiday, a carpet clean etc etc… it rather puts it in to perspective!

No heating overnight (not to save money but because I love snuggling under blankets and the children too)

but then heating on from 6-8 and then 10-2 when I’m working and then 5-7

and long showers

Three bed semi, two people. Heating on at 14 for two or three hours a day.

Gas 561kwh
Electric 97kwh
£114

Sorry, didn't mean to quote!

February's bill is going to be interesting - I switched to a variable tracker tariff the other day, which follows the daily wholesale price. Providing it stays stable for the rest of the month, I should save a bit, especially on my gas bill.

my electric is now 24.81p/kWh v 33.03p/kwh on the SVR.

Gas now 6.22p/kWh v 10.24p/kwh on the SVR. Standing charges the same.

1950 3 bed semi, 2 adults 1 DC, nobody at home daytime, electric hob and over, no tumble dryer/dishwasher, laundry 2-3 times per week, only use heating/shower at night for 2 hours
Gas/electricity combined £103 (after deduction)

350 electric for 3 bed semi, relatively new build, with a shitty air source heat pump 😑

Heating can't be turned on/off frequently due to underfloor heating taking 12 hours to heat up, so is on constantly. Same for water.

Hoping next winter will be the last in this house.

Tell a lie. It was £390.

My electric was £200. I am happy with that as we have a big house,
Washjng machinemon at least twice a day as is the tumble dryer. Sonetimes more. Dishwasher often on twice a day. Kids on playsatation etc. we both work from home so in all day.

Gas though l. Oh my god. £580 and the house is only warmish nowhere near as warm as we would usually keep it.

£141. Usually £41. That's with the heating rarely on and a very frugal approach to hot water and electric use.

@NewBootsAndRanty who is the tracker with? Presumably its capped
at the energy cap anyhow (for now
anyway).

It's with Octopus.
There's a poster (sazzleevans) on this thread who explains how it works re price cap/price guarantee etc.

www.mumsnet.com/talk/cost_of_living/4736696-energy-prices-set-to-rise-another-40-percent?page=2

We're in a 2 bed flat, me, BF, and 2 babies - we work full time so not really in mon-Fri and our elec bill was nearly £300 this month!

We used 933kwh this month. I feel sick, honestly I'm going to have to take drastic action.

My balance is nearly £900 now and I'm so dreading not getting the little govmnt top up.

Our heating is elec so I know that will reduce but EFF me!

This is interesting! I have been doing same experiment. Literally have same results :) I wanted to check how much difference in cost and hardly any, i read a lot of articles on - "Is it cheaper to live heating on" and results all different, so i have no idea what it depends on but glad i can have my heating on ( i kept logbook for a few month with daily meter reading) so i can clearly see cost vs usage. Bill for Jan £320.