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    How much was your last quarter's gas/electricity bill ?

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    How much was your last quarter's gas/electricity bill ?
    Who is your provider ?
    How many people and how many bedrooms in your house.

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    Re: How much was your last quarter's gas/electricity bill ?

    Is that each or for all of you over three months??

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    Re: How much was your last quarter's gas/electricity bill ?

    Four bedroom house, 2500sq/ft.
    One person (and one frequent guest).

    $120-180 per month for Gas/electric/sewer. Garbage pick up is another $34 a month.

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    Re: How much was your last quarter's gas/electricity bill ?

    Quote Originally Posted by OilSheikh View Post
    Weren't some companies offering free solar cells ? What happened to them ?
    The government pulled the plug on the enormous subsidies given to pay for feed in tariffs.

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    Re: How much was your last quarter's gas/electricity bill ?

    Quote Originally Posted by wasabi View Post
    The government pulled the plug on the enormous subsidies given to pay for feed in tariffs.
    But funily enough, the installation costs dropped proportionately, so the return on investment time is roughly the same.
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    Re: How much was your last quarter's gas/electricity bill ?

    Yeah it's only worth it if you are building your own house as there are grants/subsidies on new builds which are still worth it for a faster ROI

    OP: how much are you using in units (KWH/cm^3)? When you have £z for gas/elec it's still x units at y1 peak price and y2 off peak price.... it's meaningless to say what it's OTT when the only thing that dictates the proportional cost is the unit price
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    Re: How much was your last quarter's gas/electricity bill ?

    lol that's not bad ..really I pay £100 elecy and £75 gas a month ..
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    Re: How much was your last quarter's gas/electricity bill ?

    Quote Originally Posted by CAT-THE-FIFTH View Post
    Is that each or for all of you over three months??
    Silly Moose, why would it be an each figure ?

    Quote Originally Posted by finlay666 View Post
    Yeah it's only worth it if you are building your own house as there are grants/subsidies on new builds which are still worth it for a faster ROI

    OP: how much are you using in units (KWH/cm^3)? When you have £z for gas/elec it's still x units at y1 peak price and y2 off peak price.... it's meaningless to say what it's OTT when the only thing that dictates the proportional cost is the unit price
    Gas was 4000kwh for last quarter and Electricity was 1000. British Gas dont have a peak/off-peak pricing for my tariff. It's something like upto x, y p. After x, z p

    Electricity quarterly - £45 > 2005 £150 > 2013
    Gas quarterly - £75 > 2005 £190 > 2013

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    Re: How much was your last quarter's gas/electricity bill ?

    Quote Originally Posted by OilSheikh View Post
    Silly Moose, why would it be an each figure ?
    So £330 for 4 people over 3 months? Thats £110 over three months each,which is around £37/month per person per month. That is not a lot TBH.

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    Re: How much was your last quarter's gas/electricity bill ?

    I'm on monthly DD's for both electric and gas.

    From memory they're between £35-£40 for each per month so call it £75 a month for both and I'm really not a heavy user at all.

    When I'm home will update with unit use age and charging.

    Oh and the OP figures don't sound particularly high at all.

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    Re: How much was your last quarter's gas/electricity bill ?

    Quote Originally Posted by peterb View Post
    But funily enough, the installation costs dropped proportionately, so the return on investment time is roughly the same.
    You're not suggesting that these "green" companies were ripping off the government are you? O_o

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    Quote Originally Posted by Willzzz View Post
    You're not suggesting that these "green" companies were ripping off the government are you? O_o
    That or technology costs go down over time

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    Re: How much was your last quarter's gas/electricity bill ?

    Quote Originally Posted by Guy View Post
    I'm on monthly DD's for both electric and gas.

    From memory they're between £35-£40 for each per month so call it £75 a month for both and I'm really not a heavy user at all..
    I'm paying £44 a month DD to British Gas for both (not each). That's 1 person in a top floor/2nd floor 2 bed flat (with central heating). If it wasn't for the long cold chill until April, I'd probably have paid over a bit. I only have the hot water on 15 minutes a day in the morning for a shower and that's it gas-wise now.

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    Re: How much was your last quarter's gas/electricity bill ?

    Quote Originally Posted by Willzzz View Post
    You're not suggesting that these "green" companies were ripping off the government are you? O_o


    Quote Originally Posted by kalniel View Post
    That or technology costs go down over time
    Possibly an element of that as mass production of solar cells increases.

    But to the OP's question...

    Single occupancy, 3 bedroom semi built 15 7ears ago and I pay £75/month to E-on. (but I am currently working from home so my energy costs are probably a bit higher).
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    Re: How much was your last quarter's gas/electricity bill ?

    Gas £762.66 (17981.62 KWh) [The joys of the control unit being in someone's bedroom and heating being left on 24/7 ]
    Elec £188.96 (1513.84 KWh)

    5 bed, 6 people.

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    Re: How much was your last quarter's gas/electricity bill ?

    Quote Originally Posted by TAKTAK View Post
    Gas £762.66 (17981.62 KWh) [The joys of the control unit being in someone's bedroom and heating being left on 24/7 ]
    Elec £188.96 (1513.84 KWh)

    5 bed, 6 people.

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    eeeek! And, here I was moaning about my bills!

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