correct meter reading but bill is high

continualdiamond

Decided this week to take meter readings, from 7:30am Mon - 7:30am Tues used 22 day units, 1 night unit. I thought that was really good.

However from 18/10/05 - 9/1/06 my bill is £169, im electric only but i think that is high. Yet based on my 1st 24hr period i thought my bill should be lower.

Im with powergen and under FAQ is one mentioning that meter readings are correct but think bill is still wrong. I thought this might be my case and decided to do what they suggested which is record meter readings for a week.

Though surely if the meter readings are correct then the bill should be correct, so what problem could arrise if submission of meter readings to the company are right?

calleyw

I think you need to wait until you have 7 days of reading.

As one day is no way near enough. There are things that you might use only once or twice a week. Like washing machines, tumble driers, dish washers that eat electric.

And of course at the weekend you are at home more so using more electric. using the cooker more etc.

Once you have 7 days readings then take an average and then work out the bill would be from the average.

I have no idea what the answer is to your last question.

Yours


Calley

Cardew

Hard to explain only 1 night unit which presumably means you on Economy 7?
What heating do you have?

22 daytime units, depending on tariff, will cost about £1.80 or so. Thus your Oct to Jan bill(83 days) does not seem wildly out.

As Calley said you need to take readings over a week or more and even then there could be a big variation in consumption depending on the outside temperature.

If you are on E7 and only use 1 night unit you cannot be using storage heaters and almost certainly you should come off E7 and revert to a standard tariff.

continualdiamond

Thanks for the info, i am on economy 7 and do have storage heaters, but decided they are not worth the money they cost to run so don't use them. When i did use them they just didn't give enough heat out at night time, so i now use 2 electric heaters.

Bri_2205

£169.00 for this period of the year is not too bad at all. As Cardew pointed out, it is fairly consistent with your usage.

continualdiamond

Well thats reassuring as on another website, i have always been told my bills are way to much for the little place i have

Cardew

continualdiamond wrote:

Well thats reassuring as on another website, i have always been told my bills are way to much for the little place i have

As I understand it you are on Economy 7 but don't use your storage heaters and you used only 1 night unit in 24 hours.

If you are on an E7 tariff then your daytime electricity costs quite a bit more than 'normal' tariff daytime rates. To compound this you are using 'normal' electric heaters at E7 daytime rates. That must be the most expensive way to heat rooms available. You do realise that nightime electricity on E7 costs about a third of daytime electricity?

You have not said before on this thread that you only have a "little place". You only questioned the size of your bill and were told that it looked as if your bill was correct from the limited meter readings you have taken.

Frankly I don't think you could have chosen a more inefficient(and hence expensive) way to heat your house, as well as paying more than you need to for all the other electricity you use. You don't even appear to be heating your hot water at night on E7 rates.

I think everyone accepts that storage heaters are not the best system in the world, but millions of people have them. If you want to cut down your costs you need to start using them and just use your normal heaters if it gets too cool. Also you should heat your water at night on E7 rates and run other devices(washing machine?) on a timer to take advantage of cheap rates.