Hi, At the LUG meeting on Saturday I was chatting about energy usage at home. We bought our house recently and like anyone who buys or rents these days you are supposed to get an EPC telling you how much energy the house uses per year per unit area. Normally this is quoted as a letter code, "A" good, "G" bad and a kWh/m2 figure.
Our house was built in 1936 and has a EPC rating of "E" and an estimated energy use of 314 kWh/m2/year. Last year we ran the house at an actual energy use of 85 kWh/m2/year. What the inspector said and what is real are quite different. I'm just curious if anyone else has calculated or would be willing to calculate and share their domestic energy footprint? You need to know your gas and electricity bills for one complete year, to get the total kWh you have been billed for. If you use coal, oil, or wood then it can be done for that too but you'd need to convert that to a useful comparable energy value first. You then need to know how many square metres your house is (all floors), tape measure and a friend. If you have an EPC it should be on there. You divide the total energy by the total area and you get an energy per year per unit area. If you have an EPC you can compare them to see how good the estimate is. I'm curious to see what the energy footprints are for houses of given ages and how they compare to the EPC if you have it. This is totally unscientific but I'm curious what is out there. -- Adam Trickett Overton, HANTS, UK Despite all its complexity, fuzziness, uncertainty and spooky action- at-a-distance, quantum mechanics is probably a Good Thing. However, I must also note that QM permits Microsoft Windows to exist. -- John Walker
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