Annual electricity cost for your house

There’s a few parts to this. 1) How much energy you use 2) Can you reduce that and save immediately with no outlay 3) If you’re on the best tariff (which takes a lot of shopping around).

No point adding solar or spending more money until you know you’ve already on what will be your lowest usage. We use 2800kWh a year for the house (ex heating and cooking which is gas, and ex EV charging). Small 2 bed house, 2 adults 2 kids. We intentionally keep usage low – which isn’t always easy. We've solar for 18months which is separate to the figures above.

Prior to solar and the EV we used 2800kWh a year from the grid. It was higher in prior years but have moved to more energy efficient devices as other ones needed to be replaceded.

thats very good going, do you have any other heating or just electricity.

5 bedroom (circa 2800 sq feet) A3 rated house with an 12kw heatpump. Underfloor throughout.

Day/night meter. Washing/tumble dryer predominantly night rate. No EV & no solar.

12000kWh in 2023

Mine is about the same or more.

The companies seem to quote standard usage much lower

I don't know

Signed up with Yuno yesterday as contract with EI was up

Old EI rates 38c day 20c night

New Yuno fixed - 29c day 18c night.

Hi yes only signed up myself for fixed rate with yuno only have a standard 24 hr rate as I don't have a d/n meter but I'm trying to see if It would be better to get one in.

Should add I am working from home 4 days per week and all cooking is electric

It's 35 cent daily

43 cent peak hours

28 cent night rate.

We don't use much electricity on peak hours 5-7pm. Try to put the dishwasher going going to bed. We dont use the tumble dryer. Our a2w unit uses the most power. All appliances in house are modern ones.

So, if you exclude the EVs - did you consume approx. 11,000kWh last year on everything else? Seems higher than others on this thread with similar profiles.

Urban 4 bed Semi D

Solar PV & EV

Usage: 7,556kWh

PV generated/used: 3,391kWh

Imported: 4,165kWh

Last 12 months bills: €917 (deemed export paid me for about 1,200kWh but I only exported about 300kWh, now have smart D/N meter for measured export).

Looking to switch electrical providers at the moment. No gas in the house.

We have solar panels, 10kw battery, an EV, 4 kids consuming a lot of electricity, air to heat pump for hot water and underfloor heating.

All this was put in during the summer, just getting off a standard rate with Electric Ireland at the moment but can't figure out who to switch to.

Any thoughts appreciated.

Thanks

Rural 5 bed A2 BER, 2 adult 3 kids. Built 2022 a2w, all electric and think about adding EV.

9000kwh in last 12 months. Looking how we can reduce. currently don't really restirct e.g. put washes on at night

IS there any site that could compare smart rates off of real smart meter data.

size of house makes little difference.

Might be better to have a set list of questions that would give a better idea

# of Adults (2)

# Children (0)

Urban / Rural (rural)

Form of house eg detached dormer (det dormer)

# bedrooms (4)

heating system (oil)

usage of tumble dryer - low/medium/high (low)

Usage of cooker - (Medium)

hot water use - eg power showers / immersion feed (immersion feed)

Immersion heated by (oil - electricity in summer)

Average bill winter / summer (180 / 130 per month)

and maybe a few more