Oops, that's Gas. Electric is 28Kwh per day
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electric cars? ignore, typed before I saw that was gas lol
This is one of the few times I feel lucky for living in a 2 bed terraced house, with electric/gas bills currently £100 per month.
I will get my coat.... figuratively speaking.
Plus I think @Wayne J has the right idea. Add a few units onto your meter readings before the 31st. Can not see anyone being visited by the fraud squad over this.
I will get my coat.... figuratively speaking.
Plus I think @Wayne J has the right idea. Add a few units onto your meter readings before the 31st. Can not see anyone being visited by the fraud squad over this.
Working from home is expensive. Home schooling due to covid even more so. I often work 20 hour days too, so that's more than double one person working from home.
Oh wow...this is what my bills looked like in 2017 on a massive 4 storey 5 bedroom, 4 reception room, 4 bathroom house
Just don’t answer the door to any meter readers until the next reading or until you have passed the units
They will use an estimate and you won’t have much say about how they worked it out.Just don’t answer the door to any meter readers until the next reading or until you have passed the units
Submit a metre reading and they will have to use it.
Yes but if you submit a meter reading above what the meter reading actually is because you want the pre April rate and you let them read it and it’s under what you have submitted then it is fraud.
Mate I’ll buy what ever your growing
I won’t lie Iv turned into one of these energy data nerds lol so many apps monitoring power
some days it’s Low as 5kw if we are mostly out and other days 20kw if we had a roast. How we cook our food has a massive effect on it which is really interesting.I like the idea of solar as in being energy sufficient ie not worrying about what energy prices will be doing in the future. Plus just think it’s cool lol. With a solar immersion diverter we could even heat our hot water in summer months so wouldn’t even need gas.
I really don’t want to look back in 10 years 20k later and go I should of just done it!
Will be interesting to see where BTC is in 10 years as well
end of last year / this year has been a bit **** for it still 50% down from its high? Be nice to see it go mental again 
I got the specs a bit wrong on the system I was quoted, it was a 5.8kw battery not 4.8
One bit I don’t understand maybe the solar experts can explain is they say this particular battery has only 600 cycles but if it’s being used every night it would be dead in under 2 years? And they are not cheap so would destroy any savings? But they say they last like 10-15 years how is that?
One bit I don’t understand maybe the solar experts can explain is they say this particular battery has only 600 cycles but if it’s being used every night it would be dead in under 2 years? And they are not cheap so would destroy any savings? But they say they last like 10-15 years how is that?
That figure was for gas, but my 28Kwh for electricity is still stupidly high. Unfortunately I can't work any less than I do and that's the biggest power drain. There's very little chance of my family changing their usage habits either so I'm just going to have to try not to worry about it and pay up. My wife cooks dinner for the kids at 4pm and then for us at 6pm which is an obvious waste of power...but fairly unavoidable. I've booked a smart meter to be fitted on the 30th so will be keeping an eye on it.Mate I’ll buy what ever your growing
I won’t lie Iv turned into one of these energy data nerds lol so many apps monitoring power
I like the idea of solar as in being energy sufficient ie not worrying about what energy prices will be doing in the future. Plus just think it’s cool lol. With a solar immersion diverter we could even heat our hot water in summer months so wouldn’t even need gas.
I really don’t want to look back in 10 years 20k later and go I should of just done it!
Will be interesting to see where BTC is in 10 years as well
Can the kids wait 1 hour and you eat 1 hour earlier and eat at 5
What do you do to use so much power? Apart from the wed farm.
You running a render cluster or something @Rob zombie - I recall you said you worked in game animation?
It's already pandemonium making them wait until 4pm. Tantrums and meltdowns begin at 3:30pm when they get home from school and are only silenced by food.Can the kids wait 1 hour and you eat 1 hour earlier and eat at 5
What do you do to use so much power? Apart from the wed farm.
The only things I'm running are a couple of computers for 8-20hrs a day, sometimes 24hrs. Robot lawnmower, loads of google speakers, wifi hubs, kids charging their tablets, PS4's, washing machine is on a lot. Apart from those there's not a lot else I can think of that uses power regularly. It's baffling. It's got to be the computers I think.
No it's all realtime rendering UE4 these days. I have a lot of computers but never more than two running at a time and 5 monitors.
My gaming PC runs at about 550w when overclocked and running something demanding.
We got a smart meter installed this week and it seems the washing machine and tumble dryer use most energy. All the smart speakers, chromecasts, chargers etc do add up though so worth switching off at night if not crucial.
We got a smart meter installed this week and it seems the washing machine and tumble dryer use most energy. All the smart speakers, chromecasts, chargers etc do add up though so worth switching off at night if not crucial.
I switched off all my smart speakers a month ago. I do have a lot of those. I'm half tempted to shut the power off completely when I go to bed and see what difference that makes. I was hoping this house would be a lot cheaper on bills after downsizing from a very big draughty house with single glazed windows, having to run the central heating 24/7 for 6 months of the year. But now I can't get any sense of what that saving would be, if at all.
Like @russdx1, I have been hyper vigilant recently (ok OCD). All part of planning for the PowerWall and the right tariff.
Zombie energy usage is the best place to start. 600w of background usage adds up to above the average use, without using what you really want.
We need/want fridge freezers, internet access alarm systems, smart speakers.
Then the oven will get used when it is needed, kettles boiled, washing machines and dishwasher will wash.
Understanding what we can reduce and the impact it will make will mean you can make the best use of solar and reduce your bill.
And it will increase the value of your house.
Reduce the stress of energy rises.
And then their is the environment for those that care about it.
I now have three monitors for energy use due to having three ecosystems.
Solaredge that runs my inverter
Myenergi for the excess energy harvest
Tesla for the PowerWall.
They are in the order of how quick they update and accurate the information is real time. With the solaredge app, I can see real time how something effects my usage. That helped get my zombie power from 600w to 250w without losing anything I really needed.
Zombie energy usage is the best place to start. 600w of background usage adds up to above the average use, without using what you really want.
We need/want fridge freezers, internet access alarm systems, smart speakers.
Then the oven will get used when it is needed, kettles boiled, washing machines and dishwasher will wash.
Understanding what we can reduce and the impact it will make will mean you can make the best use of solar and reduce your bill.
And it will increase the value of your house.
Reduce the stress of energy rises.
And then their is the environment for those that care about it.
I now have three monitors for energy use due to having three ecosystems.
Solaredge that runs my inverter
Myenergi for the excess energy harvest
Tesla for the PowerWall.
They are in the order of how quick they update and accurate the information is real time. With the solaredge app, I can see real time how something effects my usage. That helped get my zombie power from 600w to 250w without losing anything I really needed.
Yes, sorry. I was picturing an outside person coming to read my meter and that hasn’t happened in this house ever. So was just trying to recommend everyone submit a ready.
I won’t be giving an over reading because I think it will become over complicated for little saving. Plus, I am giving weekly self reading due to trying to convince Scottish Power than I won’t be using as much as they estimated. And I am going to be switching supplier.
It is possible to make significant savings switching off non-essential devices and not leaving things on standby. Along with turning the heating down a few degrees, we’re using about half the electricity and gas we were using a year ago.
What is the usable energy from the battery?
600 cycles feels low and means they won’t cover it after that. And yes, 600 days of charge and discharge means they won’t cover the battery.
I went Tesla PowerWall because it was a good price point for size and quality. Recommended by multiple independent advisors.
Only know it’s 5.8kw Iv got a call with Project Solar on Monday to ask some more questions about the battery as 2 year life span is pointless may as well just pay the high electric bill lol. Will get more details about it
Iv managed to get background load down to around 250/300w which I am quite happy with
Was quoted for oil just before the war at 63p a litre, so ordered 500+ unfortunately the truck broke down. So manage to order locally at 61p as it was looking less likely Russia will invade. Even though 61p was a heck of a lot compared to the last fill. Anyhows filled up with 850litres..
Got the oil club order for this month and it’s 106p a litre!
Got the oil club order for this month and it’s 106p a litre!
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ME: Accidentally turns on the hot tap instead of cold........
My Gas supplier be like:
My Gas supplier be like:
I'm sure when I lived in Ireland around 2002 it was £1000 to fill the 1000L tank. Could be wrong on that.
£110 to fill the car up today. That's not sustainable.
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