Households with power showers hit with £25 charges from April | Personal Finance | Finance

Brits with electric showers could be hit with charges of up to £25 from next month, according to calculations by The Express. Ofgem is lowering the energy price cap from that date, meaning Brits will pay less per year for their energy usage.

The energy authority has said that households on a standard variable tariff (default tariff) who pay for their electricity by Direct Debit will now pay on average 24.67 pence per kilowatt hour (kWh). An electric shower is a self-heating shower head that uses an immersion heater, which is activated by the flow of water. They only heat the water you use, which can be more energy-efficient than heating an entire water tank. According to Viessmann, a 10kW power shower uses around 1kWh of energy in six minutes. This means that a ten-minute shower will use around 1.67kWh.

But how expensive are these devices to use? We have done some calculations to help you figure out how much you can expect to pay if you use them to have a 10-minute shower every day.

A 10-minute shower will use 1.67kWh. At the new Ofgem price of 24.67p per kilowatt hour, this will cost around 7p a day.

At this same price, power showers will, on average, cost £25 per year to run after April 1. These prices can change depending on the shower.

Here is a more detailed breakdown, based on a formula provided by energy experts Bluetti:

The wattage is multiplied by the hours used and divided by 1,000. This brings us to 0.2839kWh. This, multiplied by the new average hourly cost, is 7p.

If you use your power shower for this amount of time every day throughout the year, multiply this single-use cost by 365. This brings us to an annual price of £25.56