A Bug's Life

Our usage so far this year:

Jan (from 15th): 84
Feb: 142
Mar: 49
Apr: 16
May: 13
Jun: 5
Jul: 4
Aug: 4
Sep: 8
Oct: 34

Looking at the previous period (4th Nov to 15th Jan) we almost certainly used another 50+ units in January (it would have been 53 if we'd used the same amount of gas every day in that period).

So far we've got the heating coming on automatically for just over an hour in the morning, and we're often turning it on manually for a couple of hours in the evening or a bit longer if we're in during the day. I'm hoping we can use a bit less this winter than in the cold of last winter, but it does depend a lot on how cold it gets!

I don't have records for every month last year, but according to the energy tracker on our gas/leccy company's webpage we were up quite considerably on gas usage early in the year compared to the previous year. We've managed to rein it back to 1.8% less than last year overall now, but we'll have to see how it comes out at the end of the year.

I fear our new boiler actually ends up using *more* gas, not less than the old one did.