I've gone round and trimmed all the obvious fat I could find, by removal/turning off/adding smart plug routines.
The house baseload seems now to be now about 8 to 10 Kw a day, and identifying it all is proving tedious. On a given day we might use the dishwasher but not the hoover, or the washing machine, tumble dryer, hair dryer, and so on in a million combinations.
Then I decided it was pointless to try and go further. Historically we always paid for exactly what we used and that has sat at about £90 a month. If the new tariff is triple or quadruple what I'm on now, which it seems it will be, then we will be paying £300-£400 a month, and that's all I need to know.
Maybe the bits I've done might make it a wee bit less, but that's probably where it sits. I'm fortunate in one sense, as I'm fixed on my rate until next May, but at that point the bill will leap. And a couple of hundred pounds a month will no longer be spent on other things.
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