I live alone in a 3 bed End Terrace (I had 2 teens when I moved in) and I think I'm quite frugal in both my gas and electricity usage. Every week though, my electricity use is always higher than similar OVO homes, this past week it was 43% higher 😯. By similar homes, are OVO looking at the fact that I live alone or that I've got 3 bedrooms? In October, I used £53 of electricity, is this really 40% higher than other homes?
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That’s a really good question, I presume that it’s a comparison with similar sized homes.
I found the following article on our website that you may find useful: How much energy an average home uses
Hey
That’s a really good question, I presume that it’s a comparison with similar sized homes.
I found the following article on our website that you may find useful: How much energy an average home uses
Thanks, it looks like I'm towards the lower end of an average 3/4 bed house but much higher than a 1/2 bed flat so I must be being compared to other singletons who live in smaller properties. I'm actually quite surprised that the average electricity bill for 3/4 bed properties is £49 and mine was £57 (not £53 as I first posted) in October. I thought I was being frugal but I'm obviously using much more electricity than other people, I'm just not sure where I can cut back.
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Are you able to use the energy tracker to pin point where most of your energy is being used? E.g lighting
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Are you able to use the energy tracker to pin point where most of your energy is being used? E.g lighting
It appears that my 2 freezers are using the most electricity followed by Always on and Standby. There's nothing much I can do about the freezers and I'm a bit dubious about the Always On using so much as the only thing in my house that is always on (other than freezers) is my router, everything else is switched off at the pug when not in use.
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Could it be that there’s an appliance in your home which isn’t energy efficient?
Or could your meter be clocking too much consumption?
Similar question. When I compare my consumption to similar homes, Edwardian three bed mid terrace, my electrical consumption is 45% less and my gas consumption is 45% more.
The electric is no problem as I’ve made significant changes in the last five years. This week my gas consumption is normal but is 3 times more than similar homes. It appears that the similar homes are not using any gas some days. It also appears that I’m being compared to a single home as I can’t imagine every house is using no gas. As it is the data tells me nothing meaningful.
Since November 21 I’ve made extensive improvements to the central heating and have reduced my gas consumption by 16.5% year on year since Nov 21. I only monitor the kWh figures for comparison.
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There has been much talk of reducing the boiler flow temperature this past year or more. Below is my experience. By reducing my boiler from 78 to 68℃ my 2022 consumption has been reduced by 15% or 2173 kWh. This is 2022 compared to the average of the previous 3 years and the heating routine has not been significantly changed. Since I made many changes to my heating system in 2023 I’m seeing a marked improvement (16% reduction) in the past three months as compared to the same months last year. Three months is a short time and will need 12 months data for the full picture.
To achieve the recent improvements I have changed many of my radiators to larger heating capacities ie double to triple panels plus single to double panel. done in part as hopefully the system will be more ready when I’m forced to install a heat pump.
At present my boiler is set to 56℃, the house is comfortable and there is negligible vapour exiting the boiler flue. It is almost fully condensing.
This is really interesting! Thanks for the update
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