I’m getting anxious. I live by myself in a 52m² apartment. I have a freezer, microwave, kettle, electric oven and Ceranfeld, a computer with a ryzen 5 3200g, and well a water heater and Nachtspeicherheizung.
I moved at the end of September and started using the heaters because it was cold. I don’t ever turn them off because from what I understand they are supposed to stay on and “charged” and you have to choose from a thermostat your desired temp. That’s what I do. All the thermostats are always off except from the one on my room that I turn on when I have less than 20 degrees, but the heaters themselves are always on and irradiate heat with the thermostat off.
I don’t know what else could cause me to consume so much energy. The app doesn’t even allow me to put a larger deposit. I’m afraid at the end of the year I’m gonna get charged a very large amount of money that I won’t be able to pay. Is it normal to consume this much energy using this heating method? What should I do? I’m really afraid to have to have a discussion about this
by Asleep-Repeat8533
11 comments
Electric heaters?
For a single person, those numbers just feel way too high, to be honest. But I assume the water heater does not help either.
(For the problem that you can’t pay in the end, maybe you need to put some to the side yourself.)
No… I live with 2 other guys, one have a pc and 2 monitors, I have a 4k monitor and a laptop, electric water heater. I use my gaming laptop around 8 hours a day, and the other guy around 5 (the pc guy). The other guy uses a macbook, so i dont expect much usage.
And our Stromverbrauch from october is 1650 kwh, so no, your usage is not normal.
I assume you are using an electric heater? And I also assume that the thermometer is on another room? If so, then the fact that you’re only turning on the heater on the room where the Thermometer isn’t there is probably the problem. Your room might warm up, but the room where the thermometer is won’t warm up, hence keeping the heater turned on.
There is no “normal”, only average.
Check your meter readings, check if it’s working properly (shut off main fuse and see if number stays static), and other than that just tally up the devices you have and how much power they use.
2000 kWh in a single month? I don’t even use 1500 in a full year. How?
It’s definitely high. Which is because of the Nachtspeicherheizung.
There is special contracts for it, so that they charge at night on a lower rate. Do you have one of those? There should normally be an extra meter for the heater.
If there is no such thing, you should probably start looking for a different apartment. You are looking at roughly 75 kWh of heating energy per square meter and year. That would be around 3900 kWh in your case. Since most of the heating is happening in the winter, the screenshot seems about right.
Nachtspeicherheizung are also powered by eletricity. They are highly inefficient and cause for your high Power consumption.
Mist be heating. Most important thing is to have the right electricity contract, check on check24.de if you can get a better one.
for one person? definitely not “normal” if we’re talking about average usage. i’m living together with my wife and we have two high end gaming PCs that we use nearly every day. the amount of money you paid just for december and january already exceeds our yearly electricity bill. you really need to find out what’s using so much electricity.
what kind of electricity contract do you have by the way? for Nachtspeicherheizung you usually have a special contract that makes it cheaper to charge them by night
Dude, your December consumption is higher than my yearly. Granted I basically live at work, but still, you gotta do something about this – the heaters shouldn’t be heating when the thermostats are off, and a two-part Zähler is heavily hinting at some shenanigans like Nachttarif or something. I’d recommend sorting this out yesterday
I live by myself as well in a 52qm apartment and use 70-100kWh a month. (Only electricity, heating is separate and I never had to pay extra after the Nebenkostenabrechnung)
Your usage is crazy. Even with heating included. Look for someone who knows this stuff and sort it out. Otherwise you’ll definitely be in trouble with a very high bill at the end of the year.
“the heaters themselves are always on and irradiate heat with the thermostat off.” that doesnt sound right… that basially means you are heating 24/7. Maybe they are broken?