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January 24, 2022
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Why does the usage shown whilst my property was empty vary from day to day?

  • January 24, 2022
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I do have another query, I was away from midday 19th December and returned at around 5 pm on 3rd January , so as my home was empty during that time I expected the usage for 20/12/2021 to 2/01/2022 to have been exactly the same but it isn’t and I would like to know why this is

Best answer by juliamc

Updated on 14/09/23 by Abby_OVO

Sorry @Cefynbach I didn’t know you didn’t have gas ! The chart I showed ref my electricity was when I was on holiday - fridge shut the whole time.  

I just looked this up on confused.com A fridge-freezer with an energy rating of A might use 408 kWh per year.  This is just an example of course. Looks like mine’s not performing very well :smirk: .

https://www.confused.com/gas-electricity/guides/appliances-how-much-do-yours-cost-to-run

...and you’re quite right I did miss the point. What else might you have had plugged in ? Anything on standby eg for tv recording ? Security light on random ?

 

@Cefynbach Is OVO your energy provider ? You should be able to see the daily usage graphs on the MyOVO web page (or the app) for those days in question and they might give a clue as to what was going on.

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February 3, 2022

Thanks  @juliamc  didn’t realise that it showed that, just had a look and still doesn’t make sense as there is hardly any difference between before midday and after midday but just realised that actually I would have left my  tv box on standby to record a few things but that would have been evening things, so surely it should have been higher than

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@Cefynbach how do those days compare with days when you were at home ? 

Those days when you were away and your average use per day you say is 2.91 kWh sound like that’s just the fridge (compared to my 3.10kWh for my fridge that is). I don’t think TV stuff uses much energy, so probably wouldn’t have registered on the graph. 

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