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bugshaw at 09:27am on 01/11/2015
bugshaw at 09:27am on 01/11/2015I have nearly six years of monthly meter readings here. Monthly reading help me keep an eye on gas and move from "but it's so cosy" to "time to turn it off". The red and orange lines are the most recent years, there's been a new energy efficient tv and a small second freezer, and a new housemate who is rarely here. It's all over the place though, not a nice smooth 10 per cent reduction a year like the energy efficiency things seem to imply we should be striving for. The gas use seems more affected by temperature than number of occupants or any special measures. No idea where the electricity was going in the winter of 2010/11. The spike in Jun 2013 was the leak in the kitchen and running a dehumidifier for a month. Three-bed mid-terrace modern house with good insulation. Graph below...
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Assuming gas heating, then yes, gas use is very much weather and temperature dependent. My work publishes average annual energy bills, and we use a constant consumption figure for our regular bills so it's easy to compare price movements, but we also publish 'actual consumption' bills occasionally and you can definitely tell which are the cold years.
2010 was particularly bad as winter 2009/10 was a late winter with cold weather in Jan/Feb 2010, and then winter 2010/11 was an early winter with cold weather in Nov/Dec, so essentially there were 2 winters in 1 calendar year!
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Yes, gas heating, hob and hot water.
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The Met Office confirms that "From late November to Boxing Day 2010 the UK experienced two spells of severe winter weather with very low temperatures and significant snowfalls." Also "(the) spell of snow and freezing temperatures occurred unusually early in the winter, with the snowfalls judged as the most significant and widespread in late November and early December since late November 1965."
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Other winters have had worse weather, but that one takes the cake for the coldest I recall in my 25 years living around Manchester.
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