Electricity
According to figures released by the BEIS on Thursday, mean electricity consumption per household in Great Britain has been decreasing steadily since 2005 – excluding a slight uplift in 2020 when multiple lockdowns kept people indoors – and is 20 percent less today.
This is most likely due to the fact that a wide range of household appliances – from tumble dryers to toasters – have become considerably more energy efficient over the years, to the point where the UK’s energy rating system needed a rehaul in 2021.
Plotting electricity usage per local authority reveals stark differences in consumption patterns around England, Scotland and Wales. The lowest consumers were Rushcliffe in the East Midlands (2,763kWh), the City of Kingston upon Hull in Yorkshire (2,784kWh) and South Oxfordshire (2,821kWh) in the South East.
On the upper end of the scale, the people of Flintshire in Wales were found to use more on average than anyone else in Britain by a considerable margin (9,012kWh). Residents’ mean household consumption was 234 percent higher than the national average.
Second-placed Wandsworth in London (8,640kWh) was also an outlier – at 225 percent of the average – while Conwy, also in Wales, came in third (7,493kWh). See the full top-ten below…
Flintshire, Wales (9,012kWh)
Wandsworth, London (8,640kWh)
Conwy, Wales (7,493kWh)
East Dunbartonshire, Scotland (6,492kWh)
Mansfield, East Midlands (6,282kWh)
Neath Port Talbot, Wales (5,999.5kWh)
Perth and Kinross, Scotland (5,643kWh)
Merton, London (5,435kWh)
South Tyneside, North East (5,087kWh)
Norwich, East (5,071kWh)
