Christmas day electricity used

[cliffords]

The rules are , you can't post until the day is over of course,and to give it some meaning a comparison with a regular day .
We had two ovens going ,air fryer, additional heating in conservatory and 12 people in the house . I actually just put the washing machine on too. We have run the dishwasher 4 times today.

I will post in the morning,as a teaser we look so far to have used about 5 days worth for comparison.
Numbers in £ to follow.

[Last Visit]

As you say, the day isn't over...yet. my smart meter tells me we have hit the weekly budget, and given its only Thursday that tells me all I need to know.

2 ovens, airfryer, lights on galore, kids on games console, TV on in living room, multiple devices and gadgets being charged etc.

[Mikebentley]

Not plugged my EV in for 4 days. I will still use a lot less even allowing for Christmas.

[Gary C]

100% of the electricity today was coming from the panels on the roof.

[clockworks]

46.1 KWh, at a cost of over £11 (Intelligent Go)

A normal day in the summer, we use about 14KWh. All-electric house, ASHP.

Yesterday was a double whammy of loads of cooking, and the second-coldest day of the year.

[bigfoot7]

Seven people for Christmas yesterday and used one air fryer plus the oven/hob then dishwasher three times. Total electricity used was 24kWh at a cost of £ 5.74.

[Douglas Arfempty]

25.2kWh

6 of us in the house for dinner yesterday (Usually 3). Both ovens and warming drawer on for about 3 hours, dishwasher ran 3 times, fridges probably working a lot harder also as they were opened and closed constantly and topped up with various leftovers.

Consumption for the few days prior was between 15-20kWh, so around 30% higher than typical.

[fooman]

19KWh 5 people all day full roast dinner, typical average for November 15KWh inc electric car though we don't drive much. Summer about 8KWh when not on holiday when the house ticks over on 2.5KWH.

You know I've never looked before!

Edited by fooman on Friday 26th December 08:08

[gmaz]

We have a heat pump and induction hob, so more usage than those with gas. 5 people for dinner.

[cliffords]

cliffords said:

The rules are , you can't post until the day is over of course,and to give it some meaning a comparison with a regular day .
We had two ovens going ,air fryer, additional heating in conservatory and 12 people in the house . I actually just put the washing machine on too. We have run the dishwasher 4 times today.

I will post in the morning,as a teaser we look so far to have used about 5 days worth for comparison.
Numbers in £ to follow.

OP numbers. Typical day looking back £3.80, £4.10 ,£3.20 etc
Yesterday was £10.45.

[B'stard Child]

Average day for us is 9 kWh - higher on laundry days lower on days without

Yesterday 16 kWh but was with 3 loads of Laundry

Xmas dinner was a takeaway from the local Indian restaurant (which is our default when we don't have to do a Xmas spread)

[Quattr04.]

Averaging 60kw a day at the moment, about£16 worth on octopus flexible we went out for Christmas lunch yesterday, but cooked a ham in the afternoon and had the heating on (electric boiler) pretty much all day, just the 2 of us at home

My guess will be about 110kw, about£35, any other guesses? Il update when the data appears in the octopus app

[Essel]

6 of us for xmas day, full dinner in the oven and puddings in the microwave, 5 overnight xmas night. 15 kwh consumed, of which 10 was produced from solar and 5 imported.

[ashenfie]

8 of us for exams and 11kwh used. Not bad and a lovely sunny day, great for walking off the Xmas dinner.

[Sheets Tabuer]

Both ovens going for over 5 hours and imported about 11Kwh, rest came off the panels.

[rdjohn]

We are all electric on the Octopus Agile tariff. We normally spend about £7.50 / day in December and keep the lounge at 21C. But an 85 year old friend was coming and she has her house at about 26C continuously so we turned it up to 24C. We were sweltering, she was comfortable.

We have a double oven and warming drawer. The Beef went on at midday and all the Veg was roasted as well as the Canapés.

The scores on the doors are just in from Octopus and we used £12:20 in total. Considering, I do not think that was too bad, as it was also pretty cold and windy - up North.

[paralla]

18.1kWh (£4.21) on Christmas day. Same as just about any other day.

Gas AGA, hot water and central heating. The one day of the year a long wheelbase AGA makes sense.

Edited by paralla on Friday 26th December 20:24

[bigmowley]

62.78kWhrs here. All electric house, including electric Aga which was flat chat most of the day. The good news is that most of it was at our lower rate of 17.1p per unit rather than 29.1p per unit. That s because we charge up our 36KW battery bank overnight at the low rate and then run off that all day. Rather annoyingly we ran out of batteries at about 8PM so the last bit was at full price I should have sent everyone to bed early. Bah humbug. It was cloudy here so not much solar to top up the batteries, that usually covers any evening shortfall.
It s about £11.

Edited by bigmowley on Friday 26th December 14:17

[langy]

We used 48 kWh (excluding charging the car which was another 22 kWh), cooked traditional Christmas dinner for 7, oven on for 4 hours and induction hob on the go.

House is heated by an Air Source Heat Pump that was set at 19.5 degrees all day.

22 kWh came from battery storage, 4 kWh from solar and remainder from the grid.

Total cost £15.22. Average cost is approx £4 / day

Edited by langy on Friday 26th December 14:48

[James_P]

Pretty standard day for us. Large house with too much electric heating installed 15yrs ago by previous owners. On octopus intelligent go so batteries charged up at 7p/kwh rather than the 32 i was on with previous supplier.