What's your average daily elec usage?

[onthefly]

I think the national avg is 16 units/day (that = kJ?)
we probably avg about 12-13 (was 18 before we got solar hot water)

[AnyDream]

MadB, where did you get that info from? And what type of household does it represent?

Do either of you have any gas appliances, or electricity all the way?

[Catastrophic]

I have gas hot water... :-D

[Antheia]

Wow i am going to sound bad but ours last quarter was 43 kwh per day! I've not idea how to get it down any lower. We have hot water, 1 fridge, 1 deep freezer, 1 air con, 1 reverse cycle air con, 1 114cm lcd tv, laptop is usually charging, washer and dryer. that's it i think.

[Rach75]

well I was reallyhappy with my one I got yesterday our tariff 11 was 23.8 and tariff 33 5.2 the reason I was so excited was it was the same actually a smidge lower than this quater last year, and since then we have a veyr large AC 3 more ceiling fans, 2 more exhaust and a HW system tqice as big as our old one plus a large tv.......our house is physically twice the floor space due to reno's so to have the same kWh as last year was a huge

[onthefly]

The units are kWh. DH gets this info through talks and seminars through work. It might only be for the average Perth household

43 units. wow! do use your dryer a lot? that's a very common culprit. Old appliances will also be a drag, and the a/c definitely.

We have solar hot water, gas oven/stove and other stuff is electricity (including evap a/c). We have ducted gas heating, but we didn't use last winter as it crapped out. We just go solar panels put on so looking forward to future bills...

ETA - m yparents have solar hot water, but evap a/c, big plasma tv (bills go up when my brother's around) and other usual stuff and their average is 20-something. They also have pumps for the water (from tanks)

[AnyDream]

Bumping because I'm keen to hear more numbers please!

[Antheia]

The units are kWh. DH gets this info through talks and seminars through work. It might only be for the average Perth household

43 units. wow! do use your dryer a lot? that's a very common culprit. Old appliances will also be a drag, and the a/c definitely.

We have solar hot water, gas oven/stove and other stuff is electricity (including evap a/c). We have ducted gas heating, but we didn't use last winter as it crapped out. We just go solar panels put on so looking forward to future bills...

ETA - m yparents have solar hot water, but evap a/c, big plasma tv (bills go up when my brother's around) and other usual stuff and their average is 20-something. They also have pumps for the water (from tanks)

Yeah we use the dryer a lot *shame*. We've decided that for the next quarter we won't use the dryer unless it's raining (and today is raining lol) and we'll use the air con less. It's not as hot now so that won't be a problem. Hopfully it'll make a difference.