Home energy use
Home energy use in High Peak
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
- 2,470 kWh
- a year, about the same as Great Britain
- Gas, median home
- 10,692 kWh
- a year, 8% more than Great Britain
- At today’s price cap
- £1,772
- a year for the median home
The typical home in High Peak used 2,470 kWh of electricity and 10,692 kWh of gas in 2024. Against the typical home across Great Britain, that is about the same electricity and 8% more gas.
Of 350 local authority areas in Great Britain, High Peak comes 204th for electricity use and 74th 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 (3,251 kWh of electricity, 12,312 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 High Peak medians would pay about £1,772 a year: £823 for electricity and £949 for gas, standing charges included. The same sum for the Great Britain medians comes to £1,745. High Peak sits across two electricity regions, so these blend their rates by where its homes are.
High Peak is split between electricity regions: North West England (about 95% of homes) and Yorkshire (about 5% 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 24% 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 the Boiler Upgrade Scheme, which covers England.
Areas with similar use
- Gedling2,500 / 10,820 kWh
- Southend-on-Sea2,517 / 10,646 kWh
- Oxford2,484 / 10,502 kWh
- Calderdale2,418 / 10,655 kWh
- Merton2,507 / 10,517 kWh
Median electricity / gas, nearest to High Peak.
Elsewhere in East Midlands
- Amber Valley
- Ashfield
- Bassetlaw
- Blaby
- Bolsover
- Boston
- Broxtowe
- Charnwood
- Chesterfield
- Derby
- Derbyshire Dales
- East Lindsey
- Erewash
- Gedling
- Harborough
- Hinckley and Bosworth
- Leicester
- Lincoln
- Mansfield
- Melton
- Newark and Sherwood
- North East Derbyshire
- North Kesteven
- North Northamptonshire
- North West Leicestershire
- Nottingham
- Oadby and Wigston
- Rushcliffe
- Rutland
- South Derbyshire
- South Holland
- South Kesteven
- West Lindsey
- West Northamptonshire
Common questions
- How much electricity does a home in High Peak use?
- The median home used 2,470 kWh of electricity in 2024, against 2,471 kWh across Great Britain. The mean was higher, 3,251 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 High Peak use?
- The median home with a gas meter used 10,692 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 High Peak?
- At the price cap for 1 October 2026 to 31 December 2026, a home using the High Peak medians would pay about £1,772 a year, standing charges included. Your own bill depends on your own use, which is on your bill or in your supplier’s app.