How much electricity does a home in City of Edinburgh use?

The median home used 2,104 kWh of electricity in 2024, against 2,471 kWh across Great Britain. The mean was higher, 2,822 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 City of Edinburgh use?

The median home with a gas meter used 8,598 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 City of Edinburgh?

At the price cap for 1 October 2026 to 31 December 2026, a home using the City of Edinburgh medians would pay about £1,559 a year, standing charges included. Your own bill depends on your own use, which is on your bill or in your supplier’s app.

Home energy use

Home energy use in City of Edinburgh

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.

Verified: 23 October 2026 from DESNZ subnational consumption statistics

Where these figures come from

Electricity, median home: 2,104 kWh; a year, 15% less than Great Britain
Gas, median home: 8,598 kWh; a year, 13% less than Great Britain
At today’s price cap: £1,559; a year for the median home

The typical home in City of Edinburgh used 2,104 kWh of electricity and 8,598 kWh of gas in 2024. Against the typical home across Great Britain, that is 15% less electricity and 13% less gas.

Of 350 local authority areas in Great Britain, City of Edinburgh comes 341st for electricity use and 310th 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 (2,822 kWh of electricity, 10,810 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 City of Edinburgh medians would pay about £1,559 a year: £774 for electricity and £786 for gas, standing charges included. The same sum for the Great Britain medians comes to £1,745. These use the South and Central Scotland region’s rates.

City of Edinburgh is in the South and Central 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 25% and its gas use has fallen 18%. 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

Gas, median kWh a year, weather-corrected

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

Kensington and Chelsea2,133 / 8,410 kWh
West Dunbartonshire2,066 / 8,806 kWh
Hammersmith and Fulham2,059 / 8,243 kWh
Lincoln2,210 / 8,755 kWh
Kingston upon Hull2,205 / 8,841 kWh

Median electricity / gas, nearest to City of Edinburgh.

Elsewhere in Scotland

Common questions

How much electricity does a home in City of Edinburgh use?: The median home used 2,104 kWh of electricity in 2024, against 2,471 kWh across Great Britain. The mean was higher, 2,822 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 City of Edinburgh use?: The median home with a gas meter used 8,598 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 City of Edinburgh?: At the price cap for 1 October 2026 to 31 December 2026, a home using the City of Edinburgh medians would pay about £1,559 a year, standing charges included. Your own bill depends on your own use, which is on your bill or in your supplier’s app.