ᐅ House electricity consumption – what is your usage?

Good morning everyone,
I wanted to ask what your house’s electricity consumption is at night when everything is quiet and sleeping, so what is running continuously?

We have a newly built house, moved in summer 2019. Our building services include underfloor heating (air-to-water heat pump), controlled mechanical ventilation (runs at full power 3 times a day for 2 hours each, then reduced), a photovoltaic system, and otherwise the usual nighttime appliances (phone charger plugged into USB outlet, e-bikes charging occasionally, 2 TVs on standby, Alexas on standby, etc.).

At night, we have a continuous consumption of about 232W (with ventilation running at reduced power and when the heat pump is not producing). I can see this in the app for the photovoltaic system. From 0:00 to 6:30 a.m. we consume about 2.8 kWh.

How about you?

Best regards

160W when idle. The refrigerator always requires a bit more; I monitor it through the app, just like the outdoor heater for the turtle. Consumption over 6 hours: approximately 2.4 kWh

Well, that sounds quite similar to our situation.
I’m curious to see when the photovoltaic system/battery storage will pay off. It has been installed on the roof since July. The battery storage is still delayed in delivery.

No plan. We use about 10 kWh of energy per day, without heating!

chewbacca123 schrieb:

Well, that sounds similar to our situation.
I'm curious to see when the photovoltaic system/storage will pay for itself. It has been on the roof since July. The storage system is still delayed.

The storage system will never pay for itself unless you got it because of a KfW40+ standard. Otherwise, it mostly just burns money, or it already has.

This is also a topic I have been thinking about a lot recently. Currently, in our 85 sqm (915 sq ft) apartment, the annual energy consumption is 2800 kWh, with three people living here. Soon, we will move into our new 120 sqm (1290 sq ft) house. In the old apartment, we have very old kitchen appliances, which will now be replaced by newer ones. Of course, the oil heating system must be taken into account, but otherwise, I don’t expect our overall energy demand to change significantly. For now, we are planning with 3500 kWh as an estimate. I’m curious to see what the final consumption will be. Personally, I wanted to estimate 4000 kWh and therefore pay the corresponding prepayment, but everyone advised me against that, saying it would be “too high” or “too much.”