What's your weekly spend on electricity?

[Andy Hunt]

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

[RenewableCandy]

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

[clv101]

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.

[woodburner]

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.

[contadino]

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.

[adam2]

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

[Joules]

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

[PS_RalphW]

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.

[RenewableCandy]

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

[Pepperman]

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.

[Joules]

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

It does drop to 12p after the first 144kw

[Janco2]

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

[Totally_Baffled]

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!!

[RenewableCandy]

'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.

[woodpecker]

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.