Home energy use
Home energy use in East Lothian
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
- 2,403 kWh
- a year, 3% less than Great Britain
- Gas, median home
- 9,849 kWh
- a year, about the same as Great Britain
- At today’s price cap
- £1,736
- a year for the median home
The typical home in East Lothian used 2,403 kWh of electricity and 9,849 kWh of gas in 2024. Against the typical home across Great Britain, that is 3% less electricity and about the same gas.
Of 350 local authority areas in Great Britain, East Lothian comes 246th for electricity use and 178th 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 (3,243 kWh of electricity, 11,306 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 East Lothian medians would pay about £1,736 a year: £852 for electricity and £884 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.
East Lothian 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 20%. 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
- Erewash2,412 / 9,869 kWh
- Rochdale2,417 / 9,863 kWh
- Derby2,418 / 9,877 kWh
- Coventry2,428 / 9,859 kWh
- Wirral2,398 / 9,737 kWh
Median electricity / gas, nearest to East Lothian.
Elsewhere in Scotland
- Aberdeen City
- Aberdeenshire
- Angus
- Argyll and Bute
- City of Edinburgh
- Clackmannanshire
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Dundee City
- East Ayrshire
- East Dunbartonshire
- 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 East Lothian use?
- The median home used 2,403 kWh of electricity in 2024, against 2,471 kWh across Great Britain. The mean was higher, 3,243 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 East Lothian use?
- The median home with a gas meter used 9,849 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 East Lothian?
- At the price cap for 1 October 2026 to 31 December 2026, a home using the East Lothian medians would pay about £1,736 a year, standing charges included. Your own bill depends on your own use, which is on your bill or in your supplier’s app.