It may not be necessary to determine exactly how much fuel your home consumes at any particular period, but it is important to understand what each type of fuel is being used for in your home. These commonly used fuel types are largely combustion fuels; their main functions as energy sources are to provide fire for cooking, and for heating air and water. These are the expected comforts of the modern home. Therefore, if these fuels are being used for boilers, woodstoves, furnaces and hot water heaters, it would be good to determine their basic operating efficiency, since some applications may consume more of these fuels than others.
Once you have identified where you are using these fuels (that is, which applications are using these fuels), you can then assess your bills; whether monthly, seasonally or annually. Then you will be able to grasp the amount of fossil energy that you are consuming and which type of fossil fuel takes the largest piece of the pie, with the largest consumption total.
