Electricity Costs...

[Matt..]

I got my electricity bill the other week and it was £85 for 6 weeks... I live on my own in a tiny 2 bed flat and think this is somewhat high!

Have any of you tried out one of those electricity usage monitoring tools like Wattson (http://www.diykyoto.com/wattson/about)? I would be interested to hear whether they actually help out, or are just there to look nice?!

[Hedders]

Sounds about the same as mine and i live alone too.

I have a 3 bed house, but i don't think i would use more leccie due to that fact.

[Fidgits]

sounds huge to me for you, mine was less than £100 for a quarter..

[Hedders]

Actually, i got my maths wrong...mine is £120 a quarter, so yes yours is high.

[Matt..]

Everything is electric... all i have that it powers is, water heating, fridge, oven, washing machine, laptop, hifi, pc, and various other small things... So not much really!

[Hedders]

You have no gas bill?

Well in that case it is pretty good!

[LotusACBC]

I live in a small house and am never home. ConEd charges me close to $600 a month.

And I am never home mind you.

[Plotloss]

£85 for 6 weeks? Christ, I can only dream of such a bill.

We use gas for heating/hot water and electric for cooking.

£120 a month, month in, month out.

[Chainguy]

Plotloss said:

£85 for 6 weeks? Christ, I can only dream of such a bill.

We use gas for heating/hot water and electric for cooking.

£120 a month, month in, month out.

Similar. DD for £140 per month. Set to rise as well.

[Jasandjules]

By 50% this year according to what the panic merchants said today.

[Chainguy]

Jasandjules said:

By 50% this year according to what the panic merchants said today.

Feck. Glad I changed all the security lights to LED ones, that should cut it down a bit.

[sniff petrol]

Jasandjules said:

By 50% this year according to what the panic merchants said today.

Martin Lewis was on Radio 2 yesterday telling everone to lock in at fixed prices. Uswitch crashed apparently.

[wolf1]

Matt are you leaving everything on all the time? Reason I ask is that I live in a three bed semi and only use short of £20 a month. Fair enough I've stuck energy saving bulbs everywhere but other than that no different than any other home. Do you leave the immersion heater on all the time?

[Matt..]

I am very carefull about turning things off and wont leave lights on when not needed, etc... The water heater was on for 6hrs, but i have now changed that to under 3hrs. I have a PC on for upto 12hrs a day (this is probably the worst thing...).

[jeff m]

LotusACBC said:

I live in a small house and am never home. ConEd charges me close to $600 a month.

And I am never home mind you.

But you have the AC set 24/7. Most UK houses don't have central A/C.

Seems a bit high, although we have ours on an equal payment plan. I haven't heard any screams from the wife so I assume ours is below or around $300/month
That includes lots of outside lighting and a pool filtre operating 8 hrs/day.

NY is slightly more expensive than NJ for Electric but not a lot.

[Sciroccology]

Chainguy said:

Plotloss said:

£85 for 6 weeks? Christ, I can only dream of such a bill.

We use gas for heating/hot water and electric for cooking.

£120 a month, month in, month out.

Similar. DD for £140 per month. Set to rise as well.

Christ, where do you guys live? Wembley stadium? Blackpool "Pleasure" beach?

[wolf1]

Do you actually NEED the water heater to be on for 3hrs a day? I switch mine on manually for an hour and that seems to store enough hot water for the rest of the day for washing up etc. Admittedly I live on my own but I certainley don't go all scrooge and swith everything off all the time. Other than that all i can advise is try shopping around for a better supplier.

[LC23]

£85 for 6 weeks seems a hell of a lot to me. My electricity use for the whole of last year was £190 and I live in a three bedroom semi. You should definitely look to see whether there are cheaper suppliers in your area.

[YZF600R]

Matt.. said:

I got my electricity bill the other week and it was £85 for 6 weeks... I live on my own in a tiny 2 bed flat and think this is somewhat high!

Have any of you tried out one of those electricity usage monitoring tools like Wattson (http://www.diykyoto.com/wattson/about)? I would be interested to hear whether they actually help out, or are just there to look nice?!

Thats hectic, I use £17 a month in a 2 bed flat for 3 people !

[Chainguy]

Sciroccology said:

Chainguy said:

Plotloss said:

£85 for 6 weeks? Christ, I can only dream of such a bill.

We use gas for heating/hot water and electric for cooking.

£120 a month, month in, month out.

Similar. DD for £140 per month. Set to rise as well.

Christ, where do you guys live? Wembley stadium? Blackpool "Pleasure" beach?

4 bed detached with detached double garage which also has power to it. Security lighting/Plasma TV's/It all adds up