90 kWh and 11 cubic meters in gas. Two person household.

This is a drop from 136 kWh last year September when I didn't have solar panels yet.

54kwh

It is important to note that I am using gas for hot water, so the cost of showers is not included in this

about 430kWh per month, about half of it is solar, and we export about 350kWh per month to the grid.

BUT our heating is gas-based, and represents about 1.4MWh per month because our house is very badly insulated.

Since the start of September with 5kw of solar panels and a 10kw battery, we've bought 782kw from the grid and sold back 285kw. This is in winter with electric heating on daily. During summer those figures are very different.

A fair bit of that usage is the electric hot water system. Hoping to upgrade to a heat pump.

@nickspacek @DelilahTech

That's more that I use for the whole apartment.

But who knows how much the subway costs per person...

@roytoo I assume you're asking about electricity, in which case 302kWh, but also 527kWh of gas.

But a combined total of 829kWh of energy use.

3 people; gas for cooking, hot water and central heating

130kWh for electricity, plus 61kWh equivalent for hot water and heating .

The water/heating part is a bit handwavy IMHO, they pump hot water around the district as a byproduct of electricity generated from park and garden clippings. When I run the hot water tap, a meter measures heat transferred through a heat exchanger and estimates the kWh equivalent.

our usage varies over the year, but in September, we used 315 kWh (our highest use was April, at 631 kWh). We have a heat pump for our air conditioning and minor heating and then gas for the serious winter heating.

We also roughly follow the '70s era Department of Energy suggestion to keep temperatures between 68 °F to 78 °F (20 °C to 25.5 °C), allowing our house to be hotter in the summer and colder in the winter.

Our peak gas use was 19 Mcf in Feb and Sept was 0.9 Mcf.

461 kWh - which is above average for us, we're typically around 430 kWh. We're 5 people, each with screens and devices to power and so on.

We have central heating using cooling water from the local power plant, and no gas.

Edit: I realise now that it's called district heating in English!

(Edit to add household size)
Not answering the poll since you indicated it was for international folks.

Four person household

Electricity
1,179 kWh from grid
115.2 kWh from solar
Our solar system went online around noon on September 23rd and the billing cycle ended on September 26th.

Natural Gas
1.17 kWh equivalent

Put me down in the “over 1500 kWh” category, but there are reasons.

We own a 3500 sq ft home in Florida—air conditioning is a major factor in our power budget. Also we work from home and have to keep the house comfortable even in the hottest part of the day. Plus I have servers running constantly for my home lab and IT consulting business.

I recently invested in rooftop solar to offset my consumption. I have enough panels on my roof to offset my average power consumption for the year, using credits for the excess production that I feed back into the grid. My home is actually classified as a “Level 2” power generation facility. I calculate it will take roughly 8-10 years to recoup my investment on a system designed to last 20-25 years.

Our next car purchase is going to be a (used) EV. I’ll install a fast charger in the garage and charge the car off my solar array. Because we work from home, fuel charges aren’t as big a factor in our budget. But gotta do what we can to save the planet.

And that’s all great, but it only works because I had the time and disposable income to do it (and because I live in a place where solar is incredibly efficient). It really brings home to me just how much political willpower and substantial investment will be required to make renewable energy viable for an entire country, much less the world. And that’s assuming we can break the back of the fossil fuel industry and their lobbyists.

2 bedroom bungerlow, East of England with two of us in it. We've not put the heating on and we still get enough solar to heat our hot water using a solar diverter that puts any spare electricity into heating our water. (May change very soon)

Last Month = 143 kWh in total
+(81kWh solar divert)

98kWh taken from the grid.

I produced 430kWh of solar energy, so net usage is very low. There are 4 in our household and we have an electric car that is also included in usage.

Edit: forgot to mention I’m in the Netherlands

Around ~130 kWh of electric energy per month.

Poland, 2 people in a flat apartment in a city. Heating, hot water, and gas for cooking come separately (and I’ve no idea how much energy we use in those).

UK here, 4 bed detached home, decently insulated. No aircon, gas central heating and hot water... heating turned off between May & Sept entirely.

Solar panels fitted (4kw) and 15.4kwh of battery storage.

We average in the 400-450kwh range for electric. We cook all electric, have 2 or 3 computers running for at least 8hrs a day and one runs 24/7 (home server).

Not sure on the gas use, but for 6 months of the year (part of April to middle Oct) it's typically under £20 a month and for 4 months of the year it's around £110 Nov -Feb) a month... then a couple of months in between around the £70 mark (March & Oct).

We don't need aircon here in this country and unless you have money to burn... it's rarely installed. Newer homes are well insulated and keep homes cool in summer, warm in winter and very new homes have heat pumps for heating systems and many have no gas installed at all.

But there's a lot of older homes that are not well insulated. My previous home wasn't great, and I'd be using around 400kwh of electric there too, mainly using an electric fire in the lounge to avoid having the central heating on too much.

But energy costs in the UK are very high, much higher than the rest of the EU as we are charged based on gas pricing even when generated by renewable energy.

Even our peak month (prob Dec/Jan) including heat pump (we are all electric) will be under 500kWh - 3 people, smallish house, sunny London, UK...

earth.org.uk/energy-series-dat…

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218kWh in this last month, about $58.

Single person , upstairs apartment in Portland Oregon. Electric heat and water, just started using the heat again. This is the lowest month of the year because no air conditioning nor heating was needed.

Less than 300kWh.

2 people in an apartment near Paris. Everything (heating including hot water, cooking) is electric, but we haven't turned on the heating yet.

1 person
Studio apartment
and home office on some days.

* * *
i see a difference in usage after switching to a home office.

for example, i brought my all-in-one printer back to the office.
i still go there 1-2 times a week, so if necessary, i bring the finished prints back.

i've also learned to turn off appliances when not in use.

but—electric cooking, an electric oven (although I use the airfryer more often), and an electric kettle.

@nickspacek @DelilahTech

> But who knows how much the subway costs per person...

This is a fascinating question I've never thought about before. A quick lookup indicates a total annual energy consumption of ~2100GWh (nyserda.ny.gov/-/media/Project…) and ~2B annual rides (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York…).

If accurate, that comes out to almost exactly 1kWh per trip.

@log @dr2chase @prattmic @nickspacek @DelilahTech