"imeasure" Quite interesting

[myozone]

LOL 

[marktime]

Rhea view, you are Pengchicken and I claim my 5 shillings

MT

[Rhea View]

Rhea view, you are Pengchicken and I claim my 5 shillings

MT

Not necessarily! Just an excuse to post a great chicken picture! 

[sleepybubble]

There seems to be some shuffling going on in the charts this week. Langstroth has slipped a place, and Rob (flamethrower) is moving on up.

Be interesting to know what has been affecting peoples consumptions over the past few weeks for this to happen.


I know for us that we are now on our winter baserate, which is about 20kwh a week less than summer. This is because we don't use the Electric oven in the winter (becasue the Rayburn is going 24/7), and the pump for the solar panels runs a heck of a lot less.

I'm still only rated at A and would desperately love to get an A+ 

[marktime]

Still surprised that I am 5th, drifted into the 'A' band briefly but back in 'B' now.

I have no renewables, just insulation and a keen eye for standbys!!

MarkTime

[myozone]

Dam - I've slipped down to 13th with a 'C'  rating    It's been cold !

[petertc]

Now my gas meter has been changed i will enter my second reading next Monday i have joined the navitron group so it will be interesting to see where i end up

[ecogeorge]

I've just moved  up to 7th place 
Caused by reduction in heat pump usage and more woodburner.
Can I politely ask; pengachicken /sleepybubble    - what is your heating fuel?
and; pengachicken /sleepybubble /marktime20   /langstroth2/Flamethrower  - what is your daily electricity useage?
rgds George.

[petertc]

added my second reading and am now in first place  some what surprised also we have a house full at present but the hot water on the boiler did pack up so that may have saved a bit. 

[marktime]

Hi George, hope that my my response to your earlier PM made sense.
Our weekly figures for electricity are an avarage of 75kWh during the lighter months going up to 85-90kWh during the winter. so that would be 10.7kWh - 12.8kWh per day. I actually find that daily usages varies a lot, it's low during the week when we are all at work /school then weekends big jump. As well as reading the mains meter once a week I collect daily, weekly & monthly readings from an Efergy meter. The weekly and monthly readings show the obvious seasonal trends, the dailys swing about as I said but the patterns are clear, I can pick weekends from a list of figures without seeing the dates.

Returning to imeasure am I right in thinking that the bands for the ratings are dynamic? I guess they are based upon the subscribers average as our co2 per person has risen to 21Kg but we are back in band 'A'.
The average for all users is currently 62kg and in my chosen comparison group of detached houses with teenagers is 49Kg where I am in band 'B'.

I find the best use for the 'Efergy' is to see that all is off last thing at night or before leaving the house, our background load (fridges and essentials) is between 90 and 110watts, if it's higher somthing is left on.

MarkTime

[Rhea View]

Hi George

In the summer (into Autumn) we are on purely solar hot water (60 x 58mm tubes). We have a pellet/log/any old cr@p boiler, but have only fired it up a couple of times a week this year to top up the hot water tank. Last year we ran it continuously for the 3 winter months. Heating is supplied by a Morso (fabulous!) woodburner that hasn't been out for 2 months! If we leave all the doors open, it heats up the whole house. We burn wood - both our own coppiced trees and any free pallets etc going. There is always a large copper kettle on the woodburner for tea, washing up, frozen chicken water etc!

As far as electricity is concerned, we use approx 2.5kWh per day. It doesn't vary much between summer and winter. The only spike was midsummer this year when we had a large 175w brooder light on for the baby rheas. Luckily it was only on for 2 weeks!    We have managed to reduce our phantom load to 10w/hr. Like marktime, life is ruled by the Effergy meter!    All our bulbs are low energy and appliances only get house room if they are AA rated. Cooking is done on an elderly Rayburn. The solar and central heating pumps are all energy efficient  Grundfoss Alphas that only use 7 - 10w/hr. We do also have a small PV array and will be adding to it this coming year, funds permitting.

And... the loft is stuffed to bursting with insulation! I sent my missus up (it's now very small up there  ) with the last batch we got on the £1 a roll offer. Windows are all argon filled K-type double glazed. Mind you, the house is small - only approx 120 square meters. Half of it is 9inch solid walls and the other (very old, 1750ish) half is 14inch solid as it has been rebricked in the last half century!

We are certainly not knit your own sandals and save the planet types, but prefer our money in our own pocket, not those of the utility companies. 

Rheaview

[langstroth2]

Hi George

According to the efergy meter, our daily average consumption is currently 11.5-12kWh. Kids on hols, people at home 24/7. I find outside of holidays it tends to be more around 11KwH per day.
Based on meter readings for the year (16 Dec 08 - 16 Dec 09) we averaged 11 kwH per day, so to the two seem to tally pretty well. Thats down from 14 KwH/day three years ago.

I find the best use for the 'Efergy' is to see that all is off last thing at night or before leaving the house, our background load (fridges and essentials) is between 90 and 110watts, if it's higher somthing is left on.

Funny thats how I ended up using it  - if background load is over 140W somethings on that shouldn't be. Wasn't planned, I intended to use it just to keep an eye on daily average.

Be interesting to know what has been affecting peoples consumptions over the past few weeks for this to happen.

CH heating on alot more as people in the house 24/7. I turned up the boiler flow temp to 65C aswell due to colder outside temps.

[ecogeorge]

Thankyou all for your honest replies.
The gauntlet is down , ecogeorge towers now on serious energy reduction plan. 
204 kwh used in last 11 days (18.5 / day)
We have a large 3/4 bed house comprising of a mix of newbuild and renovation. Large sunroom is a luxury and not as airtight as desired due to green oak construction !! yes it moves.
No gas/ oil here all electric.
Heating mainly by woodburner (Aarrow ) coupled to thermal store type arrangement. Wood is mainly pallets / freecycle / own timber. 2 central heating pumps plus pump on woodburner and one to cycle DHW through heat exchanger if store temp exceeds DHW cyclinder temp.
30 X 58mm solar tubes for dhw , heat store if dhw temp satisfied.
Back up by 9kw Navitron heatpump.-, - comes on if store drops below 35c.
Heating all underfloor downstairs, some upstirs underfloor and some rads in old part of house- oversized for lower temps.
Insulation good - current spec in 3yr old extension - tri-iso 10 or plasterboard with 60mm foam on inside of all external walls on old solid stone walls. Loft space limited (scary - nearly got stuck crawling into old part of roof space) but have got 300-500 mm insulation on all old part of house, -new part inaccessible - got to trust builder  - reputible though.
Try to live the good life and have 4 freezers , yes 4 !! All but one are big! we never buy meat. They rate from A+ to B energy.
Counted bulbs in house the other day and if you count all , I mean all - multi bulb fittings and outside and table lights etc total amount came to 72 
Still some old type , about 50% either cfl or led. Replacing old type as they fail. we're good at turning lights off / not having them on.
Have approx 1kw grid tie solar, navitron water turbine -only 8 watts -poor site !!
2010 will see replacement Samrey Wren wind turbine for siezed existing and errection of larger wind turbine. More pv if funds allow.
Concentrating on reducing consumption  currently and running around with my watt meter. Just found new (ish) panasonic microwave takes 130 w in standby  -that's just moved to an accessible switched socket.
Trying to reduce drafts tomorrow in sunroom - just found bent top + btm bolts on doors to outside preventing tight closing of doors  Grrrrrrrr.
Penga chicken / sleepybubble /langstorth2/ marktime - enjoy your top 5 places while you're there 
rgds George.

[Rhea View]

George - these are worth getting for hard to reach sockets.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/3x-REMOTE-CONTROL-MAINS-PLUG-SOCKET-MOBILITY-AID-BNEW_W0QQitemZ110474372166QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_BOI_Materials_Supplies_Electrical_ET?hash=item19b8c92446#ht_656wt_909
72 lights!!! 

[langstroth2]

George - these are worth getting for hard to reach sockets.

Yep I'd second that - I've got the kids playroom wired up to these (found them on sale in Tescos a while back) - one click on the master off turns the tv/computer/keyboard etc etc all off in one easy go. Handy for the "it's time to stop" routine aswell