Annual electricity cost for your house

Philm_12

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

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

Ubbquittious

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

Urban 3 bed. Use about 3100kwh annually.

Bills about 110 - 130 euro per 2 months

ratracer

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thank you

ParkRunner

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.

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

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

Outlier here, Large home 17000KW per year.

5uspect

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

3156 kWh.

Philm_12

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

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

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

Ubbquittious

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

Grow lamps?

Philm_12

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

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

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

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 :)

smuggler.ie

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121480344#Comment_121480344

That is great feedback - thank you. I gather no battery pack. Install €€€ if you dont mind.

Fionn1952

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121478337#Comment_121478337

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121480160#Comment_121480160

I'm a feckin eejit is how.....Bill is every two months, but my spreadsheet is monthly. Under a hundred is the monthly cost.

I do have a smart plan and run the likes of the dryer, dishwasher etc all at night.

smuggler.ie

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121480399#Comment_121480399

your sanity status restored, welcome back

Damien360

Urban 3 bed semi. Flat rate using 5800kWh per year of electricity.

denismc

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121480276#Comment_121480276

Have a look at this thread, plenty of real world data for you there.

Solar PV Performance Thread - Post your monthly output - Page 46 — boards.ie - Now Ye're Talkin'

glen123

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121480369#Comment_121480369

No battery. To add one I am looking at a min of 3k because inverter would have to be upgraded. Since I get paid for export, this would make battery pay off even longer unless I install a larger pack that would take me off Daily rate completely (charge it at Night rate and use that during the day) but that's even more money to spend, so I am currently still thinking about it :)

Solar install was 5600eur after the grant. It includes Eddi that sends unused solar generated energy to heat the water in the tank. Without it it would have been 5100eur.

lstmd

14,000Kw purchased per year, heat pump so no other heating costs plus electric car 2,500Km's per month. Solar panels also generated 3,246kw which I consumed and 3,640kw which were exported to the grid.

Furze99

Two month bills for many years were in the €150 range. Heading to €400+ these days.

Imagine running everything off electricity and having no other options - they'll have ye over a barrel and take you for as much as they can squeeze.

Philm_12

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121482501#Comment_121482501

Yes - we’ll never see a €150 bill again 🙄

Tar.Aldarion

4 bed/4 bath terraced house with a2w heat pump, tumble dryer, dishwasher using the most, we both wfh often enough. 4000kwh.

skydish79

4 Bedroom two stroey house Rural Bill in the last 12 months €2000 before the government money

celtic_oz

16 panels up .. get roughly half of what i consume from solar, the rest is mostly night rate @ 15c /kwh, so bills are less than 400 for the year after the gobernment thru us a few quid

thats with an electric car doing 15K kilometers

ELM327

8.2kWp of solar, 40kWh batteries.

6 bed house with 3 EVs

Total electricity use for the year is approx 14000kwh (hard to get an exact as I'm tallying across bills and the solar app) of which over 95% is at 13.5c night rate. With the feed in tariff paying me for exports and the government credit I've paid approx 250 euro for electricity since September 2022 which is when we got the solar in.

PaoloGotti

3 bed semi with heat pump - 3,800 kWh per year.

I am baffled by those that use more than 30% extra on top of that, allowing for a few kids, as we make very little conscious effort to save energy.

celtic_oz

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121485862#Comment_121485862

electric cars have an 50 - 100kwh battery

one charge from zero to full could be equivalent to the rest of the house for a week.

I'd imagine some people still heat water with an immersion and use resitance heaters in small rooms

CrazyEric

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121485828#Comment_121485828

How are you getting to 95% night usage? I am at 13,500 KWH but only getting 60/40 % night and that's with a heat pump heating underfloor at night.

Had a lot of Work from Home last year and had a converted attic space with Storage heater for a teenager studying. expecting a massive usage drop this year.

SharkMX

Just checked. We used 10400kwh in the last 12 months. 6090kwh was between the two EVs.

Urban 4 bed detached.

3 adults living in it. 2 working from home most of the time.

Oil heating, one fill does more than a year. All the water is heated from electricity only.

ELM327

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121485887#Comment_121485887

Top up the batteries each night in the winter (summer they are charged by the solar so no top up needed). That means the house is running on either solar and/or night rate for everything the inverter can power. The only exception would be demand spikes (eg electric shower, kettle or oven start up etc) where the first bit is pulled from the grid. My best bill was over 98% night rate!

loyatemu

urban 4 bed semi - around 5000 units a year. No tumble dryer but the washing machine is on a lot and we have a dehumidifier running a lot of the time in the room with the clothes rack.

kirk.

About 200 units a month on standard 24hr metering . 3-bed semi only myself here

Jumped by about 50 units when I decided to brush the teeth in the shower. Had to cut that out cos the v good fan I have wasn't getting rid of enough condensation.

Will switch to smart meter and EV tariff next year . Looking to get dehumidifier and run it for few hours

feelings

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121483802#Comment_121483802

~11kw a day with a heat pump for a 4 bed!Jaysus that's incredible. How are you managing that?🤔

Tar.Aldarion

There are just two people living here, there's no heating from may until november and really it's the heating that uses a lot. Winter days could be up at 20kwh-25kwh, with summer being 5kwh-8kwh a lot of days etc. Average for Nov was 16.2kwh, looking a bit higher for December.

PaoloGotti

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121485873#Comment_121485873

Well the electric car is an obvious one indeed

Cyrus

4 bedroom (circa 2100 sq feet) A3 rated house with an A2W heatpump and an EV on a D/N meter,

In 2022 we used 14,300 units and paid a total of 2,695 (net of the rebates) no solar.