new meter? you may have been over charged

sethklinger

My dad had his imperial gas meter replaced with a metric meter in April 2006, however BG did not update his details which means he was being over charged by a third for 33 months or £2400. I have been informed that this is like heating an office of 50 staff. Look at your meter if it has 'Ft3' its an old meter (that should be OK) or if it has 'M3' it means its a new metric meter, if so go and look at you gas bill, some were on it there will be a mathematic equation which is converting units used to KWh. If there is a metric convertion factor this means that their still converting your imperal foot unit to a metric unit which they should not do as you have a metric meter. Take a look at 'BBC Watchdog' for more info. This is a national outrage, I think 1000's will be effected.

KimYeovil

If he was only overcharged by one third then he is still being swindled and there is still something amiss - surely he must have been overcharged by two thirds?

(If you have a metric meter the kWhs should be about 11 or 11.2 times the meter units.)

Cardew

Welcome to the forum.

This has been covered scores of times on the forum over years

As well as the BBC Watchdog programme on this a couple of weeks ago.

I would add that the mathematical equation shown on most(all?) bills includes that conversion factor(2.83) but tells you to ignore it if you have a metric meter.

The fault usually lies with the company(National Grid) not informing the Utility company of the new meter. That said, all Imperial meters are replaced with Metric meters, but 'The Computer' presumably is not programed to pick this up.