Not sure if I'm paying too much for electric?

JFK1980

This is my first post, but have been reading for a while.

I've finally gotten around to giving nPower a meter reading for our electric, six months after we first moved in, due to the fact that I have been waiting this long to get the key off the landlord to access the meter in the hallway (it's a shared block of apartments).

However I was hoping that our balance would have been drastically reduced once they'd updated the reading, it appears not. We have no gas supply, so the electric heats the water and we have electric radiators and cooker too, but taking this into consideration I still feel that £53 a month is quite a lot for two people that generally spend all their time in the same room and usually only with the TV and a lamp on, plus cooking once a day. We only really used the heaters in moderation in the Winter too, and a fan from time to time in the Summer. Granted my brother (a student) is at home during the day more than I am, but he still only has his laptop and TV running.

So just as a comparison I was wondering what everyone else roughly paid each month in similar living situations. I was also wondering whether the water heater always being on might have something to do with it, though I have no clue how to adjust it and I only presume it's on constantly as we are never without hot water.

Cardew

Welcome to the forum.

£53 a month for all electric property with electric radiators is very low.

Putting your hot water on timed heating will make a small difference - perhaps a couple of pounds a month.(assuming you have a modern well insulated hot water tank)

Bear in mind that the average household - even with much cheaper gas - has a £1,300 pa bill.

Whilst your property is smaller, you have no gas, so to be paying 50% of average is fine.

JFK1980

Oh well, perhaps I was just being hopeful. Yet another bill to add to the list, sometimes wonder what the point of working is if you're only going to spend it all on being able to live in the first place!

Cardew

JFK1980 wrote: »

sometimes wonder what the point of working is if you're only going to spend it all on being able to live in the first place!

The alternative being?????

1carminestocky

If you are on npower's standard electric tariff it's almost 100% certain that you are paying over the odds, no matter how reasonable the amount you are paying is. You are clearly very frugal. Tme to get on the switching sites, methinks.

As an example, in my Yorkshire region 5000kwhs of leccy annually would cost you £681 with npower standard. It could be had for as little £459 with BG Websaver 3.

JFK1980

Cardew wrote: »

The alternative being?????

There is no alternative, that was my point.

It wasn't serious by any means.