Annual electricity cost for your house

Philm_12 · 10-12-2023 11:02am #1

Every house is different

Ours is a 4 bedroom bungalow on rural day/night rates. We use 9000kwhper yea. Our 12 month cost is currently just under €3000. Average 2 monthly bill €500.

How does that compare against your electricity cost.

Jim_Hodge · 10-12-2023 11:12am

Also rural 4 bed. On flat rate. Annual usage is only 4100kwh though.

Ubbquittious · 10-12-2023 11:16am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058326349/annual-electricity-cost-for-your-house

EV, Heat pump, electric hob/oven?

Using about 5,500kwh a year. The solar knocks about 1,600 off it. Bill usually 200 if there are no credits

gipi · 10-12-2023 11:17am

Urban 3 bed. Use about 3100kwh annually.

Bills about 110 - 130 euro per 2 months

ratracer · 10-12-2023 11:21am

About 5,000 kWh per year here. Was on rural 24hr tariff. Avg bill approx €300 every two months.

Just installed 8kw Solar with 5kW battery, so hoping to see a good decrease in the bill next year. Still experimenting with it for now and into spring.

Just standard house though, no EV, OFCH, and gas hob.

Fionn1952 · 10-12-2023 11:28am

3/4 bed (one used as my office) urban semi, myself, the wife and one child living here. 3420 units used in the last 12 months. Bills would typically be under the €100 mark (usually substantially so) every two months.

We're far from super energy conscious, fair bit of tumble drier usage during the winter months, tend to leave a lot of devices on standby rather than fully powering them down.....while the appliances and devices in the house would be on the upper end for energy efficiency, and we do tend to spend a lot of time outside the house over the weekends etc, I genuinely don't think I could use 9000kwh p/a if I actively tried.

@Philm_12 are you running any sort of heating off electricity or charging EVs to have that sort of consumption? I'd be looking for someone running a weed farm off my power if I saw those sort of numbers!

TheSunIsShining · 10-12-2023 11:32am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058326349/annual-electricity-cost-for-your-house

Assume you have a pump for water? Any chance there's something up with it and it's running continuously or soemthing?

cute geoge · 10-12-2023 11:37am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058326349/annual-electricity-cost-for-your-house

Farmers milking 50 cows would be using just about that rate including rerigerating milk

kippy · 10-12-2023 12:11pm

1,500 sq foot 2 storey detached house in village. 2 adults and 3 kids.

2021 5547 Units

2022 4506 Units

2023 4148 Units

A busy house etc, one of us WFH all of 2021 and a bit of 2022 but back in office full time since then - we've also removed a few relatively high use devices from the house (tank heater) and added an air fryer which has reduced the oven heavy usage. On a standard rate with Energia but recently had a smart meter installed.

Looking for a bit of use off the smart meter to see when and how we are using most and may decide to load shift for the heavier stuff (clothes dryer mostly - although we have reduced its use) and may change bills based on that and potentially bring those units beflow 4000.

Jim_Hodge · 10-12-2023 12:31pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058326349/annual-electricity-cost-for-your-house

What are you using to get that level of consumption? We're half that usage and use electric cooker, tumble dryer, immersion heater etc.

Wearb · 10-12-2023 12:50pm

A lot people seem to use a clothes dryer nowadays rather than a clothes line when the weather suits. Any heat producing item will be heavy on electricity.

TheSunIsShining · 10-12-2023 12:59pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121478267#Comment_121478267

My missus has a remarkable ability to forget there is such a thing as a clothes line, even in the height of summer......grrrrrr! I seem to be the only one capable of hanging the bloody stuff out the back!

Gusser09 · 10-12-2023 1:17pm

Using 4700kw per year getting a 3.95kwp solar install in Jan. Should bring it down by a considerable amount.

Electric shower is killing me.

smuggler.ie · 10-12-2023 1:22pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121478042#Comment_121478042

Miracles or daydream ?

below 100 ? in two months?!

Any other sources of power you forgot to mention? gov subsidies? ... time just froze for you in 2015 or something?

smuggler.ie · 10-12-2023 1:26pm

For those with solar - any of you already for 6+ months installs. Mind to share actual average production data please.

Thank you

ParkRunner · 10-12-2023 1:56pm

Electricity charges are quite low for me, family of 5 rural bungalow. Got solar in 2 and a half years ago and it has made a big difference even for heating water. Haven’t actually paid anything in 2023 due to a lump sum feed in tariff payment, the bills below have just been changing my level of credit. Have oil heating separately.

10-12-2023 2:09pm

Suburban, 3 bed, A rated, Gas heating, electric cooker, 1.5kWp of PV. Work from home.

1700kW from the grid in the past 12 months. Will go up because I've purchased an EV

supue · 10-12-2023 2:33pm

12500kW for me - rural 5 bed. Ev accounted for c6000 kW, bills around €200 per month on day/night meter as I had bord gais at 32/15 and now flogas for 33/15 for the next 7 months. Plan on getting solar next year as have room for a 8/9kW system and should put a dent in that usage

lukas8888 · 10-12-2023 2:38pm

Outlier here, Large home 17000KW per year.

5uspect · 10-12-2023 4:13pm

Four bed suburban semi-detached. A3 rated with solar.

3156 kWh.

Philm_12 · 10-12-2023 5:09pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121478977#Comment_121478977

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121478603#Comment_121478603

And I thought my bills were big!!

Ubbquittious · 10-12-2023 5:13pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121478348#Comment_121478348

https://www.pvstats.eu/home.pl

Ubbquittious · 10-12-2023 5:14pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121478603#Comment_121478603

Grow lamps?

Philm_12 · 10-12-2023 5:31pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121478579#Comment_121478579

No EV here. Bit too old to get a return on Solar 🙄 Will be free to switch providers in January.

Hippodrome Song Owl · 10-12-2023 7:56pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121478042#Comment_121478042

I don't know how you keep bills under €100 for 2 months! Are you on a smart plan and do absolutely everything at night?

Suburban 3-bed semi here using 2200kW per year. Bills around the €150-170 mark every two months.

My parents have been using 1200-1400 kW per two month period (8000kW per year) forever, despite not doing anything to warrant such high usage. They recently refused a smart meter installation. But weirdly once their neighbours either side (terraced houses) got new meters, the usage dropped to 650kW for two months. I wonder if a neighbour's usage was somehow being fed on to my parents' meter.

smuggler.ie · 10-12-2023 8:25pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121479319#Comment_121479319

Thanks. Bunch of numbers- great stats. Some unreal numbers too. Is there enough sun in this country to produce this much?

What i was actually looking for, i guess, was - "15 panel system, 5 Ah battery pack, 15k install cost - no more bills!" 😉

No intention to hijack this thread, sorry

glen123 · 10-12-2023 8:40pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121478348#Comment_121478348

I've had solar installed for exactly 1 year now. 12 panels (4.5 kWp system).

In 12 months it generated roughly 4000kw, 3030 of which we consumed and 970 got exported. There is always someone at home to kick off the washing machine or to start cooking when the sun is out or the excess will go into EV. If you are not there during the day to use the produced electricity, it's a bit pointless then.

4 bed rural house with 5 people in it. One working from home.

Annual consumption - 8000kw (2300 - Day (@0.33 cent), 5700 - Night (@0.14 cent) most of which is EV charging). No dryer usage or oven, but 5 people that eat at different times different stuff so any normal family cooking can be multiplied by x 5...air fryer is god sent :)