Home energy use

Home energy use in Ceredigion

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
2,954 kWh
a year, 20% more than Great Britain
Gas, median home
8,333 kWh
a year, 15% less than Great Britain
At today’s price cap
£1,799
a year for the median home

The typical home in Ceredigion used 2,954 kWh of electricity and 8,333 kWh of gas in 2024. Against the typical home across Great Britain, that is 20% more electricity and 15% less gas.

Of 350 local authority areas in Great Britain, Ceredigion comes 17th for electricity use and 317th 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 (4,232 kWh of electricity, 10,247 kWh of gas) because a minority of big users pulls an average up.

Only about 26% of homes in Ceredigion have a mains gas meter, against about 84% across Great Britain. Homes off the gas grid heat with electricity, oil, LPG or solid fuel, which tends to push electricity use up.

20% of electricity meters here are on Economy 7 or a similar day and night meter, against 12% across Great Britain. That usually means electric storage heaters or a hot water cylinder heated overnight, and it is worth checking your night rate is the one you are using most.

What it costs

At the price cap for 1 October 2026 to 31 December 2026, a home using exactly the Ceredigion medians would pay about £1,799 a year: £1,022 for electricity and £777 for gas, standing charges included. The same sum for the Great Britain medians comes to £1,745. Ceredigion sits across two electricity regions, so these blend their rates by where its homes are.

Ceredigion is split between electricity regions: South Wales (about 58% of homes) and Merseyside and North Wales (about 42% of homes). 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 19% and its gas use has fallen 17%. The biggest drop came in 2022, the year of the energy price crisis, and use has stayed close to that lower level since.

Electricity, median kWh a year
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Gas, median kWh a year, weather-corrected
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How does your home compare?

Areas with similar use

Median electricity / gas, nearest to Ceredigion.

Elsewhere in Wales

Common questions

How much electricity does a home in Ceredigion use?
The median home used 2,954 kWh of electricity in 2024, against 2,471 kWh across Great Britain. The mean was higher, 4,232 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 Ceredigion use?
The median home with a gas meter used 8,333 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 Ceredigion?
At the price cap for 1 October 2026 to 31 December 2026, a home using the Ceredigion medians would pay about £1,799 a year, standing charges included. Your own bill depends on your own use, which is on your bill or in your supplier’s app.

Figures for Ceredigion (W06000008) from the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero’s electricity and gas consumption statistics, published 18 December 2025, covering 34,157 domestic electricity meters and 8,983 gas meters. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.