Atlantic Gas & Electric Bill Advice

tony863

Hi Everyone,

I don't often post on here but could really do with your advice on this occasion.

Basically, I have received my gas and electric bill from Atlantic and it isn't overly bad but I wanted to check that we are not getting ripped off. I have tried working out the bill but it is like trying to read a foreign language.

I pay £50 per month gas (they are upping this to £67) and £70 per month electricity. We live in a 2 bed semi with me the wife and little boy. I would say we have average useage of both utilities for our household.

The gas bill said we owe a further £86. That was from Oct 08 to Apr 09 and our current charge is for Domestic standard:

4.240p per kWh (standard)
3.190p per kWh (discounted)

They said we used 1360 units (15182.79kWh)

The electricity said we owe £117. For the same period. Again, we are on domestic standard and our charges are as follows:

14.66p per standard enery unit
11.40p per discounted energy unit

They said we used 3164 units over that period

I would just like to know if people are paying the same on average or if we are being ripped off. Do our rates seem high and could anyone think we could save eleswhere?

Many Thanks

tony863

ps, Thanks will be given to anyone offering their advice

highet

make sure you get a the promised refund of one months direct debit for both gas and electricity after you have been with them for 12 months - should happen automaticaly in month 13 but atlantic have been know to forget and need prompting phone call
also cheaper to make sure you are on their online and dual fuel tariffs

adprob

Are you on the Atlantic Internet tariff, which gives the 13th month rebate, or the standard which has the same rates as the other sse tariffs

anniecave

have you checked your meter readings on your meters match the readings on the invoices?

tony863

Thanks guys, I am on that rebate thing and did get one recently. My meter readings are bang on because they came round to read them last week.

I was wondering how much other people were paying though? Am I paying about the right price or should I start shopping around?

Fire_Fox

Your electricity sounds high - you have used £70 a month PLUS an adjustment of £117? Do you have an immersion heater for your hot water, a power shower or use the tumble dryer a lot??

We are two and use £34 a month of electricity, all in as we don't have gas.

tony863

I know what you mean. We don't have a tumble dryer or power shower and our hot water comes from our combi boiler. Anyone else think my rates are high?

posted_2

As a guide, 2bed annual averages are around

15000 kwh gas - yours will be around 18000
4000 kwh elec - yours will be around 6000

so your usage is high, esp electricity

Electricity usage is pretty static, so the next 6 months will be similar to the last unless you reduce usage, gas should be significantly less (around a fifth of winter) when you turn off the heating over the summer.

Magentasue

tony863 wrote: »

I know what you mean. We don't have a tumble dryer or power shower and our hot water comes from our combi boiler. Anyone else think my rates are high?

Do you mean kwh rate or the number of kwh used? Both seem high to me if calculated over six months (182 days) averaging 17kwh a day.

We're a family of six - high users but try to be careful. Three bed house on three floors. We averaged 13kwh a day summer and 15kwh a day winter (Oct-Mar).

We're paying 15.6p for first 225kwh a quarter and 8.6p per kwh for the rest, including VAT.

bootman

I had my Atlantic gas bill over the weekend, what a shock.
We have lived here for years and been with Atlantic for years also. My bill came saying I owed an extra £234! for the 6 months Oct - April.

They are increasing my payments from £42 a month to £76.

I would not mind but were were not even that warm over winter. We double insulated the loft last summer as well, fat lot of good that seems to have done! put I my bills not reduced them.