Energy bill increases
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Regular.Cyclist
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Yes, for dual fuel.
DaveReading
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You don't mean watts - kilowatt-hours, maybe ?
How many watts is 1kwh ????……..its 1000watts for a kwh, my office runs at 100 watts which is. 1/10th of a kwh…..so 700watts is 7/10ths of a kwh. a kwh Electricity is currently 29.7p, so thats 3p per 100watts.
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Regular.Cyclist
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1,000 watts for one hour is 1 kilowatt hour.
Thats what i said…..
Regular.Cyclist
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Yes you did…………In your edit after I posted my reply.
My edit was to change the e in Electricity……….maybe you posted while i was changing the capital E
but let me add even more complication to the workings…..50% of my office is run on solar power, so its actually costing me £2.43 a month to run my home office. So that would mean, 2 trips to the office, is approx 2mths worth of home office costs.
Ps please not i stated approx, im not getting out the calculator, slide rule, abbacus etc etc
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Regular.Cyclist
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The quote in my reply was the complete, unedited, text in you post at the time I responded. Nothing added, nothing removed.
So, it must of been while i clicked on the edit button, as i was squaring it my head before i typed. Not a problem, we both got the same answer……
wiggydiggy
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1 more thing I learnt when moving - Shell aren't taking on any new customers. As they are the supplier currently I can have it transferred into my name but if it wasn't, they wouldn't have took me on. Don't know if thats the same for other companies.
DaveReading
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A watt (or kilowatt, come to that) is a measure of power (i.e. how rapidly you are using energy), not how much you have used altogether.
In order to derive the latter (which is what determines how much your bill is), you need to multiply by the length of time, and it's the result of that calculation that is expressed in watt-hours (Wh) or kilowatt-hours (kWh).
My calculation works and is derived directly from energy monitor on my desk…….i use 100watts per hour…..so over 7hrs i use 700watts and therefore 7/10ths of a kilowatt hour
7/10ths of a kilowatt hour is 21p……
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It's a really interesting question but completely off topic, but logically why would you need to?
A gallon as far as petrol/diesel is concerned is irrelevant, we have been buying in litres since January 1995, over 27 years ago, at what point will the UK population let go of the concept of MPG (miles per gallon)? Surely we should have adopted MPL (miles per Litre) but maybe that number is so small the automotive industry don't want us to use that, the other option appears to be litres per 100km, which as we do not use km it would be pointless, so maybe it should be Litres per 100 miles.
But anyway back to the original question, I don't know the answer, but I use 4.5 as a guide, just like I use 5/8th converting km to m.
cougie uk
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I do think people would drive better if the car displayed in pence per mile rather than the MPG or whatever.
It'd be interesting to see if the fuel price rises have reduced the average speeds on the motorways. We must have this data somewhere.
Oh - we do. Historically anyway.
2018 Avg speed 68 mph.
2019 69 mph.
2020 70 mph.
Just from using the motorway I'd be suprised if its that high nowadays.
It'd be interesting to see if the fuel price rises have reduced the average speeds on the motorways. We must have this data somewhere.
Oh - we do. Historically anyway.
2018 Avg speed 68 mph.
2019 69 mph.
2020 70 mph.
Just from using the motorway I'd be suprised if its that high nowadays.
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