So has mine. (no e-car here though). Has a lot to do with how the devices developed and how we use them.
The landlady buying me a fridge of energy efficiency E was a real bummer! Yeah, yeah, it’s still better than the 35 year old that was replaced but still it was a typical “I don’t have to pay for operating it” decision. On a device that simply must run 24/7.
We were planning to install Solar panels on the buildings of our STWEG (but another urgent renovation-project came in between).
Anyway, an expert told us that they expect the “Einspeisevergütung” to drop to zero in the foreseeable future due to supply and demand.
ZEVs, vZEVs and LEGs (selling your excess energy to your neighbors) are the way forward, as well as trying to use as much of the energy you produce yourself by moving as much consumption into daylight times and using batteries to increase your own degree of self-reliance into more hours without sunlight.
Totally agree!
It will feel odd at the beginning, moving all the activities one pushed to after 8pm into daytime. While it will give a feeling of freedom too 
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Most washing machines have a delay timer.
The gamechanger will be the house-hold robot that can remove the clean laundry and put it in the dryer or hang it on the clothes line
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Oh, there’s also a completely dynamic rate in 2026.
That will be interesting.
Makes our 3.5 thousand kWh look tiny
what, no ironing?
While there I checked our daily usage
We were on holiday for some days last week and on holiday days our usage varied from 2 or 3 or 4 kWh per day.
Now I am wondering why the differences, we have a fridge and a freezer but nothing else was using much electricity that I can think of that might have consumption changes.
An air filter plus two TVs in standby and the router should not use much or change from day to dy?
Wonder how much influence the opening of the fridge/freezer has?
You left the airfilter on and the tv in standby while on holidays?
I am so looking forward to regaining my nights and weekends. Laundry during the daytime, midweek? Just the thought of finally getting a good night’s sleep or taking a weekend outing fills me with joy.
Although whether that joy will offset what looks to be a rather steep rise in electricity prices remains to be seen.
LOL, you take it that far? You must have a huge family if washing robs you from sleep and keeps you home on week-ends.
On the other hand I’m a night owl so maybe I just don’t notice. In summer the bedding must dry out in the sun = Saturday is definitely the day. But to be honest, once it hangs out there I’m free to go anywhere.
Is your supplier EKZ? So your freedom starts 1.1.26? They claim their prices generally are dropping.
Recipients of electricity from Stadtwerke Winterthur will have to wait for that freedom a little longer it seems, the 2026 sheet still gives two tariffs.
What do you do if it’s raining on a Saturday?
Mine’s hanging out today because it’s sunny and I deliberately set my machine to run during the night because we have the dual tariff system.
I tend to do my laundry based on the weather forecast as I try to line dry outside as much as possible.
Romande Energy changed our peak hours to 17h00-23h30. Just perfect for dinner time.
HA, I argue with cosmos? Demand it to change it?
Well, I’m a one person household, I could keep it in the basket an other week or I hang it up indoors. As in winter.
Seriously? How cheeky is that!
When I was a child, lunch time was the most expensive time. Guess since kids eat at school and parents have take away in some other town that lost it’s appeal.