👁This is a sample home — not your dataA real year of half-hourly readings, so you can see exactly what your own page looks like. Connect your meter and every figure becomes yours.
Your home runs on about £1,435 a year of energy
Worked out from your own meter — no guesswork, no estimates.
Half-hourly readings turn a vague bill into a clear picture: when you use power,
what’s always-on, and how you compare to a typical home.
Live from your smart meter. Figures below are your own half-hourly readings.
£3.93a day on electricity · about 13.6 kWh
What’s costing you
🔌~£452 a year always-onestimated
About 37% of your electricity is a constant background draw — fridge, router, standby — estimated from your quietest half-hours.
→ Hunt down standby: TVs and set-top boxes, old chargers, a forgotten second fridge.
⚡Sun 02 Nov: about £6 in one day
That day used 23.4 kWh — roughly 1.7× your typical 13.6 kWh. 4 day(s) stood out like this.
→ Cast your mind back — heating flat out, guests, tumble dryer, immersion heater?
£~£197 a year in standing charges
A fixed daily fee of 54.0p every supplier charges before you use a single unit. It’s easy to miss — but it’s a real part of your bill.
→ Standing charges vary between tariffs — it’s built into the deals comparison below.
▲~£564/yr above a typical home
You're about 84% above the Ofgem typical home on current usage.
→ The evening peak and heating are the usual places to claw this back.
£About 1.3 kWh in your priciest evening hoursestimated
Around 19:00 something power-hungry runs — typically an oven, tumble dryer, dishwasher or immersion heater. We’re inferring from your usage shape (not certain). That’s use sitting in the dearest part of the day on a flat tariff.
→ Moving it earlier/later, or onto a time-of-use tariff (priced for you below), could cut it.
Overnight (EV charging would show here)3.5 kWh/day
You vs a typical home
▲~£1,435/yr (4,963 kWh) — about 84% above a typical homeBased on 365 days of your readings, vs the Ofgem typical-home figure of 2,700 kWh/yr.
Near-term heating outlook. The next 7 days look mild locally (no cold snap forecast), so heating demand should stay low. Indicative only.
Could a time-of-use tariff help?
An overnight charging pattern suggests an EV — a day-night / EV tariff prices those overnight units far lower. See what it would cost you below.
3 Spending over time
What you’re spending, month by month
Your real electricity cost for each month on record — and how the last week and
month compare with the stretch before. All from your own readings, nothing projected.
£44.60on electricity so far in June (12 days) · on track for about £112 by month end
▲Last 7 days: £28£2 more than the 7 before (£25)
●Last 30 days: £112about the same as the 30 before (£113)
4 The year ahead
What’s coming — your year, forecast
Based on how your home responds to cold weather, on a typical local year. I learn
the pattern from your own readings and check it against itself — lately it’s landed within about
9%. It’s a careful estimate with a range, never a promise.
£1,435projected for the year
· typically between £1,412 and £1,458
Projected £ per month (typical weather)
🌡Every 1°C colder costs you about £0.05 a dayThat’s how sensitive your home is to the cold — the steeper it is, the more insulation and
heating settings are worth looking at.
Forecasts use the free Open-Meteo weather archive and your own usage. Your highest month is
usually Jan, your lowest Jun.
3 Is your bill right?
Are you paying the right amount?
The simplest money rule there is: your direct debit should track what your energy actually costs — no more, no less. Pay too much and you’re handing over an interest-free loan; too little and a winter shortfall is waiting.
●Tell me your direct debit and I’ll check it — I won’t guess itAt cap rates this works out near £1,435/yr (your smart meter), so a right-sized direct
debit would be about £125.54/mo — enter what you actually pay and I’ll show whether
you’re over- or under-paying.
£1,435/yr
Projected electricity cost (your smart meter)
£125.54/mo
A right-sized direct debit for that cost (incl. a small 5% seasonal cushion)
These figures are from your own smart meter — tell me your monthly direct debit and I’ll check it against what your electricity actually costs.
📅 Coming up
The price cap is changing on 1 July
Ofgem has announced the energy price cap will rise about 13% for
1 Jul - 30 Sep 2026. Here’s what that looks like for your home, on your current usage.
▲About £187 a year moreYour energy would go from about £1,435 to £1,621 a year
(roughly £16 a more a month). A good moment to check you’re on
the best deal — see below.
This applies Ofgem’s announced average rise to your own usage; your exact change depends on
your region’s new unit rates, which Ofgem publishes per region. Source: Ofgem price-cap announcement.
🏠 Your home bills
Your whole home, in one place
Your energy here is real, from your meter. Add your other monthly bills and I’ll show your whole home in one place — the foundation for everything else.
£1,435/yryour whole home — £1,435 energy
Add your other bills
Pop them in and I’ll remember them for next time — just for you,
and gone if you delete your account. Soon you’ll be able to connect your bank (Open Banking) and I’ll
find them for you.
5 Your money-saving actions
What to do, biggest win first
Ranked by effort then size — the free, do-it-today wins come first. Every figure is an
estimate from your own usage; we keep them
realistic and label an ‘up to’ saving as exactly that.
Cut always-on / standby loadup to ~£68/yr
Always-on is ~37% of use (~£452/yr). Cutting standby and replacing an old fridge/freezer could claw back up to ~£68/yr.
Free / 30 min
Total estimated saving if you do all of the above
~£68/yr
Savings don’t simply add up — some overlap (a cheaper tariff and shifting peak use
touch the same units). Treat the total as a realistic indication of the prize, not a guarantee.
⚡ Get paid to save
Saving Sessions: get paid to use less at peak
On cold winter evenings the grid pays people to cut their electricity for an hour or two
(the Demand Flexibility Service — Octopus call theirs “Saving Sessions”). It’s real money for
shifting a wash or a dinner by an hour.
💰You could earn roughly £1.30–£3.89 per sessionYou typically use about 1.9 kWh in the evening peak, of which ~1.3 kWh looks
shiftable. Sessions have historically paid around £1–3 per kWh saved — an illustration
from your own usage, not a guarantee (payouts vary by event and supplier).
Sessions run mainly Nov–Mar, announced about a day ahead, and you sign up through your
supplier. Coming soon: I’ll alert you when one’s scheduled so you never miss the payout.
★ What if?
What if you changed something?
Rough estimates for your home, worked from your own usage — assumptions shown,
and your mileage will vary. Make a change and watch your real figures move.
☀Fit solar panelsestimate
A typical south-facing array offsetting your daytime use. Rough payback ~25 years.
→ about £239/year
🔌Cut standby & always-onestimate
If you trimmed about 15% of your constant background draw.
→ about £68/year
🔧 Get it sorted
Get it done by someone good
When your data points to a real job, here’s where to find top-rated local
tradespeople. We only suggest one when there’s a genuine reason; the ratings come from the
directory (we don’t vet them ourselves); and we may earn a small referral — never at your expense.
🔌Find an electrician or appliance engineer near you
Your always-on load is high — worth getting an old fridge/freezer or a dodgy circuit checked.
It’s your data — explore it, take a copy whenever you like, and if there’s a
chart or number you wish you had, just ask: I read every request and build the ones people want.
When you use power
Average use by day and hour — darker is more. Your busiest spell is around 19:00 on Wednesdays (ringed).
Your carbon footprint (estimated)
913 kgof CO₂ a year from your electricity · about 76 kg a month
Estimated from your usage and your region’s current grid intensity (~184g CO₂/kWh). Right now about 42% of your region’s power is renewable (wind, solar, hydro), 52% low-carbon including nuclear. The cleanest upcoming window is about Thu 09:00 — a good time to run the dishwasher, washing or an EV charge.
Ideas people love: day-of-week patterns, a usage heatmap (hour × day),
your carbon footprint, cost-per-degree, weekday vs weekend, your most expensive days. What would help you?
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What’s real vs representative: EPC bands are real, dated public data
pulled live for your postcode; the smart-meter insight runs on sample readings until you connect your
meter; the energy price cap is the real Ofgem Eastern-region figure used as a GB-wide approximation
outside that region; competitor tariffs and broadband prices are a clearly-labelled
representative snapshot pending a live whole-of-market feed. We rank impartially on price and show service
quality alongside, and are not affiliated with any provider named.