Electricity prices

I'm with Pure Planet. Renewable electricity (and carbon offset gas). 12.85p per KW/h plus £7.62 membership fee per month. Gas (which you've not asked for!) is 2.83p per KW/h with the same membership fee, all plus vat.

Winter months (Oct-Mar) are charged at 150% of Summer months (e.g. I pay £107 in the summner months and £161 the rest of the year) which works for me.

So basically a standing charge of 29.5p/day, relatively expensive compared to most standing charges people have quoted ...

Looking at my bills for the past year, my total cost ratio is approx 8/13 electricity to gas. It that fairly normal? I'm retired, so the heating is on all day when needed.

Annual consumption gas just shy of 10MWh, elec 2.5MWh, working from home more often than away.

Dont know how relevant to OP this is. I am all electric ( although OH would like it not to be that way, not because he is cold though, and he is retired, so home all day.). I am happy enough as follows

Yorkshire Energy - just swapped this month. South West England ( Cornwall). E7 tariff using storage heaters and I use little convector heaters for top up in cold weather during day time ( they cost around 2p an hour, I have worked it out).

Rates Day rate 15p kwh Night 9p kwh Standing charge 7p per day.

Now that is a fraction cheaper than we paid with So Electric last year.

Total cost of electricity last year was £1429- that was heating , cooking and all other events. No gas charges or anything else as we are rural here and no mains anywhere.

If your day rate is 15p per KwH, then those convector heaters must be just an orange bulb and a little motor to give it a flickering effect, if they only use 2p of leccy per hour.

Large 4 bed detached. Out in the sticks, no gas. Annual electric consumption 17MWh - cost £1756. (On economy 7) This includes heating by electric boiler (wet rad system), general cooking etc, and 8500 miles worth of charge for an EV.

Those really must be tiny convector heaters. Using your figures, it seems that they must be about 2/15 of a kilowatt, so about

Chris

Forgot to add:- Scottish Power Day rate 13.1103p/kWh Night rate 6.9195p/kWh Standing charge 41.09p/day The 27 month plan runs out end of January 2020 and then will probably go with Symbio.

But you got the decimal point in the wrong place 20p/hour is a more plausible usage rate for a ~1.5kW convector heater in cold weather.

In the SW you might possibly be better off staying on electricity and having solar panels so that for some of the year at least your daytime consumption is nulled out by solar PV. Improving loft insulation is the other easy energy saving win to look at before anything else.

In answer to the OP's question my electricity to other (solid fuel) ratio is something like 1:3 with most space heating from the wood burning stove or oil (and ignoring the fact that some wood is free).

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Mine's 10/13 but OH is temperature sensitive and uses a supplementary electric fan heater on occasions.

Interesting. I thought mine would be very leccy heavy since I have few LEDs - as I prefer the look of tungsten. And have so many dimmers would cost a fortune to upgrade them all - even if I could find ones to fit.