DESNZ · Regional and local authority electricity consumption statistics (DESNZ)

Mean domestic electricity consumption per meter

2024 Final

3,323kWh a year

Mean domestic electricity consumption per meter was 3,323 kWh a year in 2024.

  1. DESNZ estimate
  2. 2024
  3. published 18 December 2025
  4. Subnational electricity consumption, Great Britain, 2024
  5. row “Great Britain (inc unallocated)
  6. column “Mean consumption (kWh per meter): All Domestic
  7. cell value 3322.735541706746

What this measures

Electricity consumption per domestic meter (standard and Economy 7 together) in the year, for Great Britain, each nation and region, and each local authority (DESNZ sub-national electricity consumption statistics).

What this doesn’t measure

The bill, which also depends on the tariff and standing charge; nor consumption by any one household, since the mean is pulled up by large and electrically heated homes.

Important caveat

DESNZ sub-national consumption statistics count meters, not households, and allocate each meter to a local authority by its postcode. Gas figures are weather-corrected and cover a gas year (2024 is mid-May 2024 to mid-May 2025); electricity figures are not weather-corrected and cover February to January. Means are per meter across all domestic meters in the area, so they are raised by large, electrically heated and multi-meter properties and say nothing about homes with no gas supply. Scottish councils are in the source but outside the site's geography registry, so only Great Britain, nation, region and English and Welsh authority rows are held.

Revision history

No period of this series has been revised since it was first ingested here. Revisions are recorded automatically when a later release publishes a different figure for the same period.

Source

Publisher
DESNZ
Publication
Regional and local authority electricity consumption statistics (DESNZ)
Release
Sub-national electricity consumption statistics, 2005 to 2024, published 18 December 2025
Source file
Subnational_electricity_consumption_statistics_2005-2024.xlsx
File SHA-256
9d40814a23f87b2b028dd39da05b47d0e67e843473ec6ec4a8a0f93167666429
Retrieved
3 September 2026
Sheet
2024
Table
Subnational electricity consumption, Great Britain, 2024
Row
Great Britain (inc unallocated)
Column
Mean consumption (kWh per meter): All Domestic
Cell value
3322.735541706746
Geography
K03000001
Unit
kWh a year
API
/api/metrics/electricity_consumption_domestic_mean · /series · /vintages

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Release
Sub-national electricity consumption statistics, 2005 to 2024 · publication page
Last updated
18 December 2025
Next release expected
Not yet announced (estimated from the usual cadence)