How accurate is your British Gas energy smart meter?

oldfella

mine is reading around 35% high

penrhyn

Top tip, move the sensor as far away from the meter as you can, along the cable.
Also make sure the faces of the ferrite are meeting cleanly.

No idea why it better , I've got an electronic electricity meter, possibly some sort of interference coming from it.

datostar

My Minim shows 684 kWh used over the last 30 days. The meter shows 454. That's a massive over-read of around 50%. I also started using an Eon monitor a few days ago. As of now, the Minim is showing 0.87 kWh and the Eon 579 watts. I don't suppose either of them are particularly accurate but I suspect the Eon is much closer.

skiprat1977

My British Gas monitor is reading a lot i think.

30kWh yesterday and that is without any water heater on and storage heaters off.

We are using a 400 watt halogen heater for our living room and nothing anywhere else,
Cooked one meal at teatime and have had the PC, TV on from 9am untill 10pm

Today with the water heater on during th night on its eco7 timer this morning the meter reads 20kWh.

Dont think i will be using the hot water heater much now, Maybe time to get a electric shower fitted instead of heating the tank up for a bath

PC/TV/Fridge are using 500 watts acording to the monitor.

I dont fancy getting another bill for 500 pounds this winter, last year our electric with scottish power was over 1300 pounds, hope british gas is cheaper.

penrhyn

If your usage continues at this rate then £500 seems a reasonable estimate, one Kilowatt hour costs me around 14pence.

You need to check the correlation between your electricity meter and your monitor.

Sorry error in the electric price it should be around 11p (inc VAT)

smjxm09

If you are paying 14p then my 9.5p with British Gas is a bargin.

Robert2009

is that with or with out VAT?

Bryando

I ended up binning mine. Found it no help what so ever, felt as if I would develop OCD over electricity monitoring!
Also found it very inaccurate to say the least.

smjxm09

Robert2009 wrote: »

is that with or with out VAT?

I was wrong it is 8.106 + 5%VAT =8.5p

This is click 6 which is closed for new customers

djhworld

I'm a bit concerned about my monitor, I don't think it's picking up some things in my flat

For example I have an immersion heater (for water) and a storage heater. I only usually put my immersion on in the morning for around 20-30 minutes before a shower and when I come out my monitor says that I've used around 2.5kWh.

However if I put my storage heater on at night it doesn't seem to pick it up at all, the next morning the monitor still reads that I've used 2.5kwH for the day so far (I get a shower every morning)

I did a proper meter reading earlier and I don't think the "monthly" amount reflects what I've actually used either, the 30day reading reads something like 215kWh whereas my meter readings read as follows

04 December 2009
Day 6462
Night: 12932

04 January 2010
Day: 6627
Night: 13286

Now I see that as a difference of 519 units between the two readings NOT the advertised 215 on the energy monitor.

Anyone know why the monitor is so far out? I'm thinking the storage heater not being read might be an issue - perhaps the 1 of the 4 "thick" cables that you're meant to attach the monitor-sensor to have different jobs and I've connected it to the wrong one?