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Just worked out that we spend on average £6.50/week on electricity - and that includes all the cooking. We don't have a gas bill. Not bad eh

Ours has just halved...that's assuming the FiT doesn't come through. If it does, ours is a negative number, which isn't included in the poll

Over the last 30 days our house of three adults has used 271 kWh. That's 63 kWh per week so £7.59 at 12p per unit.

A few points, electric oven and hob but gas shower. Two of the adults work from home most of the time so there's pretty much always someone in the house and a computer or two on.

Andy Hunt wrote:Just worked out that we spend on average £6.50/week on electricity - and that includes all the cooking. We don't have a gas bill. Not bad eh

That's about a quarter (erk) of our spend, but then we need only about a quarter of your log consumption. Around half of our electric consumption comes from an electric Aga. It runs only on off-peak (+ a little peak for the fan) Well someone's got to provide the night load for the generators.

The usage part of our last 2-month bill was for €29 (with electricity here at 31¢/kwh.) So that's about 93kwh, over say 9 weeks, is roughly 10kwh/week. You can see why participating in the 10:10 campaign would have been difficult.

15 kilos of gas for the hob lasts about 3 months, and costs €20.

Everything else is either wood-fired, or from the solar panel.

I voted Zero, as I am 100% wind and PV powered.
The true expenditure to produce electricity, is unknown and very variable.

Yikes. £25.63 by my reckoning (lecky is 23p/kw). But I'm fighting an uphill battle against BAU chez Joules.

My better half says our last lecky bill was £65. Assuming it is for 13 weeks that is exactly £5 a week. We use a little over 4KWh a day.

We have gas heating and a gas hob, electric oven.
Solar hot water. We are 4 in the house.
The washing machine is cold fill/electric heat.

Joules, 23p/kWh is a bit pricey! We pay about 13.

I pay about 25p/kWh but I'm with good energy who have a standing charge and as I use very little electricity the standing charge ends up costing me more per unit than the electricity price. Still only £3 a week or thereabouts so it's really not a burden.

RenewableCandy wrote:Joules, 23p/kWh is a bit pricey! We pay about 13.

It does drop to 12p after the first 144kw

I voted zero as overall we generate way over the amount we use and the rest is therefore available for others.

Last quartely bill was £108, so at around £8.30 a week that makes me a bit of a energy hog!!

ITs gas that screws me - I get £350 quarterly bills in the winter(£26 a week!) and I only have a modest sized house.

I reckon my wife is holding gas flaring parties in the garden when I am out or something as this seems really expensive!!

'Baffled, how about taking weekly meter readings and using these to either spot what's happening, or else to check you're not being ripped off.

I spend between £4 and £5 a week on electricity, and the quarterly gas bill ranges from £8 (summer) to £200 (end of winter last year). I have a gas hob, electric oven, gas CH and hot water, and I work from home.

I'm hoping that this winter will see the winter gas bill go down, given that the underfloor insulation seems to be making a terrific difference: the heating doesn't kick in automatically in the morning and the temperature is much stabilised day and night. I can't stop checking the thermostat in wonderment. (Before there always seemed to be a gale blowing up through the floor, constantly cooling everything down.) We'll see how the first really cold spell goes...

I'm also going to make a concerted effort now to reduce electricity usage by monitoring.