Real heating consumption values - experiences

20 € electricity per month, I would be happy with that, but how do you manage that? I have already long exceeded that on my own.

20 € electricity per month, I would be happy with that, but how do you manage that? I have beaten that by far on my own.

It's a complete mystery to me. We manage it in just under a week.......

Regards
Thorsten

Probably through heating/hot water via district heating, otherwise absence from the apartment and thus also breakfast + lunch at the office / at work + regularly eating out. Then home in the evening, briefly turn on the TV, rarely do laundry and that’s it. You don’t really need or hardly need a dishwasher. No waterbed. What else uses electricity? Oh yes, the medium-sized refrigerator with 100 kWh annually.

When I think about what already runs standard in our household: very large refrigerator, freezer chest, almost daily washing machine + dryer, cooking + both ovens (needed for five people), waterbed, server, garden lighting, night lights in the house ...
Not even A++++++++ really helps anymore ;)

One thing becomes predominantly quite clear:

Electricity (household electricity) in an energetically well-positioned house often costs (significantly) more money than heating (and hot water).

Devices that consume a lot of electricity, as far as I remember, are: hairdryer, iron, vacuum cleaner, dryer ... By now, laptops, PCs and TVs, especially plasmas, are probably included as well. Stand-by, is that still an issue?

Regarding cooking: one person understands cooking as heating the small pan 2 times for 5-10 minutes, having a pot in constant use, occasionally using the kettle, blender and chopper for 20 seconds, and then 45 minutes in the oven at 180 degrees.

The other cooks rice and turns it into a salad.

I have been operating my photovoltaic system for a few days now, which has the pleasant side effect that I am recording my household electricity consumption.

The big surprise, (which I had internally expected anyway), is already the baseline load. Even when no one is at home, I basically have a constant draw of 250-300W, which amounts to 6-7 kWh in 24 hours alone. Over a year, that is 2,500 kWh, without cooking, hair dryer, oven, heating, hot water, etc...

Basically, it's "only": refrigerator, devices on standby, router, NAS, inverter, heating control, multiswitch, cable amplifier, modem and things like that...

I was quite surprised by that. The consciously used electricity like lighting, washing machine, dryer, dishwasher, oven, hob, toaster, hair dryer, Thermomix etc... adds up to roughly another 5 kWh spread over the day (although we have almost all highly efficient devices).

In addition, hot water amounts to pretty much exactly 3 kWh per day, and depending on the outside temperature, of course, the heating as well. So far, that fluctuates between 0 and 8 kWh per day. These values come from the time before the photovoltaic system.