£80 pcm electricity bill for one?!!!

espresso

PopIsDead_UK wrote: »

Again, most flats don't have gas piped in so it's impossible to get anything other than electrical heating.

All new builds tend to stick with electric only.

Yes electric heating is quick, cheap and easy to install for the developer but ineffective and expensive for the occupier. I could not live in an all electric property!

PopIsDead_UK

Electric isn't that much more expensive than gas really. If you are clever and turn everything off once you have finished with it, and use all your big appliances during the economy hours, you shouldn't be looking at paying more than £50pcm for a 1 bedroom apartment.

espresso

PopIsDead_UK wrote: »

Electric isn't that much more expensive than gas really.

Electric is up to four times more expensive per kWh when compared to gas!

PopIsDead_UK

espresso wrote: »

Electric is up to four times more expensive per kWh when compared to gas!

Key words 'up to'

If you are clever (like I said), you should be able to live comfortably for approx £50 a month. You won't have any gas charges, so for a single person it should work out cost effective.

:T

espresso

PopIsDead_UK wrote: »

Key words 'up to'

OK three to four times more expensive per kWh.

:rolleyes:

Magentasue

PopIsDead_UK wrote: »

so for a single person it should work out cost effective.

:T

With storage heaters? Good luck!

Cardew

PopIsDead_UK wrote: »

Key words 'up to'

If you are clever (like I said), you should be able to live comfortably for approx £50 a month. You won't have any gas charges, so for a single person it should work out cost effective.

:T

There is a case if you own a small flat for electrical heating and have to consider the installation costs of Gas CH and servicing, against the low cost and low maintenance of installing electrical heating. The savings on gas running costs will take a long while to compensate for the installation/servicing costs.

However if you rent, or buy a small flat with gas CH, then gas is the obvious option as the running cost are much less.

In fact with Economy 7 night rates having increased much much more than 'normal' tariffs, there is a strong case IMO for not having storage heating and just using oil filled radiators of an internet tariff like Click 6.

With Night rates having jumped from under 2p/kWh 3 years ago to around 5p now(150% increase) while 24/7 normal rates have only gone up approx 40%, the break even point for using E7 is well over 50% night consumption in many cases.

PopIsDead_UK

Magentasue wrote: »

With storage heaters? Good luck!

Paying approx £50pcm with no gas bill is actually quite good.

Torry_Quine

Currently paying £55 per month for an all electric home with storage heaters. It is two bedroomed and has four storage heaters. Never run out of heat and rarely need the boost - as I'm disabled and home all day I would need heating on whatever the system. This is a very cold part of the country but I wouldn't want to change my heating system.

Can't understand why people are so negative.

MrsBartolozzi

I'd like to get away from the argument around electric being the most expensive form of heating and look at the OP's usage.

The OP says they used 381 (av 42.3 per day) low units and 86 (9.6)normal units in 9 days. That seems quite a high number of units to me, around 6 units more in total than we do, and so maybe other sources rather than heating should be looked for the high number of units.

In comparison, I live in a 3 bed bungalow, with two kids, and OH . We have had 2 storage heaters (2.2kW) and 2 convectors (in the evening) running every day during the last 17 days as well as when the kids get back from school- 2 xboxes &TVs, lights (not all are eco ones), router etc, 4 showers and tank gets heated up too, cook every day on electric cooker, have laptop and pc on in evening/tv etc , and washing machine/ tumble dryer every day and our daily usage works out at 10.29 normal units and 35.8 heating over this period.
I would think that a single person would have to try hard to use more than this, as I am forever turning lights and tvs etc off around the home that were left on by other people.
My DD is £90 per month, and has been for the last 3 years. I reckon it needs to go up by around another £10 to cover our usage, but will wait and see if prices fall before I tell the elec company that though .

I would suggest that the OP checks what other electrical items they are using/leaving on etc, as the usage does seem quite high to me.

HTH, MrsB.