Sunday, 28 August 2022

What Items Use The Most Electricity?

With the news that our electric bills are going to skyrocket, the Government have decided rather than actually do something about the billions being raked in by the utility companies, they will instead offer advice and that advice is for the public to use less electric so thanks guys, reassuring to know you have our backs when the nations huddles around a candle this winter.
Obviously some appliances cost more to run than others and most people will throw on a jumper rather than the heating but i sense many arguments in households over running electricity-burning items but when asked, nobody knows exactly what the most electrical intensive appliances are and say that if they did then they would be more conscious about using them.
Luckily, i happen to have those details from Utilita so here's a guide to how much it costs me in a normal day.

So i get up and the usual routine is take a shower for about 4 mins at 3p a minute and switch on the kettle for that first thing in the morning cuppa (2p for a 3 min boil) or the coffee machine (0.5p for 2 mins gurgling) and then dry my hair (0.1p for 5 mins) straighten my hair (0.25p for 5 minutes) before making some toast (0.003 for 1 minute) and watching a bit of TV for 15 minutes at 1p a minute.
After work it's home to cook tea and put on the oven to cook it (46p an hour) and then spend 15 mins running around with the vacuum cleaner (3p for 15 mins) and maybe tumble drying some clothes (9p for 15 mins) followed by 15 mins of ironing them (5p for 15 mins).
With tea almost done it's pop some beans into the Microwave for 3 mins (0.2p) and then sit down to our evening meal.
After tea the kids go and turn on the X-Box or Playstation for an hour (2p an hour) while the dishwasher gets loaded for its 15 minute job (at 9p for 15 mins).
As the evenings are getting chiller we put on the heating for a while (£1.84 for 2 hours) and while it is quiet i usually grab a drink from the fridge (cost 96p a day) and spend an hour on the computer at 4p an hour answering emails and writing a witty blog post about whatever has been rattling around in my brain that day.
Then it's about 90 minutes of TV watching (90p worth) and then around midnight plugging in my mobile phone to charge for 6 hours (0.6p) before i get up and do it all over again.

Using my basic grasp of maths and a calculator i work out that in a normal day i use approximately £4.86 of electricity or £34 a week or £1769 a year which is quite sobering so to claw some of that back, this post took about 15m so that's 1p of electric used to advise you on how much electric we use so if you found this post useful then cheques to be made out for 1p to Cash. Thank you.

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