Automated Dwelling 2.0 – #47 Working Prices For All Electrical Home & Warmth Pump in 2022

In 2022, the overall vitality utilized by the Automated Dwelling was 15.087 MWh (a mean of 41 kWh / day). That’s a 7.3% discount on final yr, partly attributable to dropping 2 of our ‘lodgers’.

Just below one third of that whole was utilized by our air supply warmth pump, for area heating and sizzling water (4.83 MWh). This was the primary full yr the place we had been capable of make the most of the work the boffins at Epitome Dwelling had accomplished final Spring to make sure our Loxone constructing administration system retains the warmth pump biased to run through the early hours.

We additionally continued to make use of the Delayed Begin perform on our Siemens home equipment to run the dishwasher and washer in a single day, in addition to utilizing the on-board timer to cost the EV then too.

That allowed us to maneuver extra of our vitality consumption into the cheaper evening fee, growing the general proportion used on the Economic system 7 tariff considerably, going from 35.9% in 2021 to 44.2% in 2022.

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When it comes to prices, the electrical energy unit value will increase had been offset by the modifications above, together with the federal government’s Power Worth Assure scheme, which gave us entry to an unimaginable 1.5p evening fee in November and December. All meaning our £2,225 annual electrical energy invoice is 2.1% decrease than the earlier yr and we’re now utilizing virtually one quarter (26%) of the vitality we utilized in our earlier home.

Bear in mind, we don’t burn something, we purchase no gasoline, heating oil, coal, wooden, petrol or diesel. In order that £186 (common) is our single month-to-month invoice for all our heating and sizzling water, all our cooking and washing, all our lighting and leisure plus our ‘gas’ for one of many Electrical vehicles.

You may learn all the small print on our system from this complete publish from final yr.