High Gas Usage

sb75

I have recently moved house and changed gas supplier. The old supplier was NPower.
Yesterday I received a finaly bill from them. Can anyone tell me if this is correct:- From 15 November to 3 December = 18 days, the final bill was £58.31. The first meter reading was 5272 and the final reading was 5306 = 34 units used!
I have the heating on 1 hour in the morning and 5 hours in the afternoon/evening. I have a gas hob which I use daily. I do not use the water heater as we have daily showers.
I did query the amount with NPower but they were more interested in when the balance would be paid.
Any ideas anyone, I would love to hear from you.

Cardew

It is probably correct. It would appear that you have an Imperial gas meter so those 34 units are approx 1,050kWh

You are a 'victim' of NPower's seasonal weighting tariff.

This means that a high proportion(about half) of those kWh will be paid for at tier1 rates and the rest at tier 2 rates.

It is also possible that the first meter reading(5272) was an estimate.

Magentasue

Looks reasonable to me - 34 meter units is approx 375kwh or, more likely, 1050kwh, depending on if you have a metric or imperial meter. 1050kwh would be about 60kwh a day which is reasonable for what you describe.

What did you expect? And was the meter reading of 5272 actual or estimated?

Pssst

Gas is no longer cheap. In the old days,if it was cold.we actually put some clothes on. These days,people expect to walk around at home with the flimsiest of clothing,hence they feel cold and wack the heating up.

Put some clothes on. Its cheaper

This is not meant to be a facetious reply. Its a serious comment
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sb75

Its just the amount that seemed very excessive for just over 2 weeks worth of gas! Good job I changed suppliers!

Cardew

sb75 wrote: »

Its just the amount that seemed very excessive for just over 2 weeks worth of gas! Good job I changed suppliers!

This is one of the proplems with NPower's seasonal weighting.

All other tariffs that use the Tier1/tier2 system split the number of high priced Tier 1(Primary) units evenly over the 12 months.

NPower only charge for very few in the summer months and for the majority in the winter months. So at a time when you are using far more gas anyway, you are charged for far more at the higher price - a double whammy!!

Had you used the same amount of units, over the same period in the summer, your bill would have been a lot lower.

It is a good reason to join NPower in the Spring and leave in the Autumn!