Home energy use
Home energy use in Aberdeen City
How much electricity and gas the typical home here uses, from meter readings for every home in Great Britain, and how that compares with everywhere else.
- Electricity, median home
- 2,023 kWh
- a year, 18% less than Great Britain
- Gas, median home
- 9,534 kWh
- a year, 3% less than Great Britain
- At today’s price cap
- £1,594
- a year for the median home
The typical home in Aberdeen City used 2,023 kWh of electricity and 9,534 kWh of gas in 2024. Against the typical home across Great Britain, that is 18% less electricity and 3% less gas.
Of 350 local authority areas in Great Britain, Aberdeen City comes 347th for electricity use and 226th of 347 for gas, counting from the highest. These are medians: half the homes here use more and half use less. The mean is higher (2,712 kWh of electricity, 11,530 kWh of gas) because a minority of big users pulls an average up.
What it costs
At the price cap for 1 October 2026 to 31 December 2026, a home using exactly the Aberdeen City medians would pay about £1,594 a year: £734 for electricity and £859 for gas, standing charges included. The same sum for the Great Britain medians comes to £1,745. These use the North Scotland region’s rates.
Aberdeen City is in the North Scotland electricity region. See every region’s rates on energy prices by region.
Your own use is on your bill or in your supplier’s app. Put it into the direct debit checker to see whether you are paying the right amount each month.
Over the last ten years
Since 2015, the typical home’s electricity use here has fallen 26% and its gas use has fallen 19%. The biggest drop came in 2022, the year of the energy price crisis, and use has stayed close to that lower level since.
How does your home compare?
- Is my electricity use normal? Your yearly use against homes like yours, by property type, heat pump and electric car.
- Electricity smart meter analyser and gas analyser read your supplier’s download and show what your home uses hour by hour, without the file leaving your device.
- Heat pump calculator What a heat pump would cost to run against your gas boiler.
- Grant checker Including Home Energy Scotland’s heat pump grant and loan.
Areas with similar use
- South Tyneside2,070 / 9,692 kWh
- Renfrewshire2,150 / 9,635 kWh
- Haringey2,156 / 9,563 kWh
- North Ayrshire2,185 / 9,754 kWh
- Hartlepool2,196 / 9,731 kWh
Median electricity / gas, nearest to Aberdeen City.
Elsewhere in Scotland
- Aberdeenshire
- Angus
- Argyll and Bute
- City of Edinburgh
- Clackmannanshire
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Dundee City
- East Ayrshire
- East Dunbartonshire
- East Lothian
- East Renfrewshire
- Falkirk
- Fife
- Glasgow City
- Highland
- Inverclyde
- Midlothian
- Moray
- Na h-Eileanan Siar
- North Ayrshire
- North Lanarkshire
- Orkney Islands
- Perth and Kinross
- Renfrewshire
- Scottish Borders
- Shetland Islands
- South Ayrshire
- South Lanarkshire
- Stirling
- West Dunbartonshire
- West Lothian
Common questions
- How much electricity does a home in Aberdeen City use?
- The median home used 2,023 kWh of electricity in 2024, against 2,471 kWh across Great Britain. The mean was higher, 2,712 kWh, because a minority of heavy users pulls an average up; the median is the household in the middle.
- How much gas does a home in Aberdeen City use?
- The median home with a gas meter used 9,534 kWh of gas in 2024, against 9,859 kWh across Great Britain. The figures are weather-corrected by DESNZ, so a cold winter doesn’t make one area look worse than another.
- What does energy cost for a typical home in Aberdeen City?
- At the price cap for 1 October 2026 to 31 December 2026, a home using the Aberdeen City medians would pay about £1,594 a year, standing charges included. Your own bill depends on your own use, which is on your bill or in your supplier’s app.