Saving with British Gas Energy Smart

djhworld

Received my meter today (lucky I was off work today as the parcel man came at 1pm!)

Installation was a lot simpler than what I'd originally feared and it all seems to be working fine. My only gripe was the instruction to find out your tariff, it directs you to your online account but I couldn't find where it said my tariff prices anywhere.

Ended up having to ring them up in the end, but got there eventually. My tariff is on two tiers (1st 125kwh @ tier1 and thereafter at tier 2) - it's a bit odd how the monitor doesn't let you input this data so I've just gone for the average amount calculation and put the average as tariff 1.

I'm a bit intrigued on some things though, for example charging up my mobile phone or electric shaver. When this is on (and no other electricity is being used in the flat - i.e. the monitor reads 0.00) the monitor doesn't seem to change. I'm thinking this is probably because the charger uses something like 0.00035kwh or whatever which isn't displayed on the monitor - but does this amount still get totalled up in the background?

djhworld

Also I'd just like to add to the people saying "I'm worried about plugging it in"

According to the manual it says

"Running your electricity monitor for a whole year uses 0.25kWh, and will cost less than 1p a month. In comparison, boiling your kettle just three times uses more energy than the electricity monitor uses in a whole year"

I can believe that, the screen is just a simple LCD (similar to your average digital watch) and the amount of power drawn is minimal at best.

The only issue I can forsee with the damn thing is the addiction to watching it, I swear I've gotten up to look at it at least 3 times in the last hour!

hansi

lookin2save wrote: »

Me got the monitor as well!.. just for those not knowing what values to set on the monitor...check the online consumption hub they have on the British gas site..It has a 'reduce your bill' feature that tells you what values you need to set on the monitor based on how much you want to save and what tariff and pricing you are currently on!

Thank you. Very useful feature.:D