Electricity Bill! Help!!

olliekatryna

Me and my partner have recently moved into a flat in sheffield. we pay approximately £50 a month for our uitility bill, we only have electric, no gas. i have received a bill and upon close inspection, the meter readings are out by approximately 4000 kWh. i dont want to tell the energy company as that would suggest that we have used this extra 4000 but we havent! we do have the heating on a bit, but when we arent home nothing is left on. i worked out the average was 55 kWh per day, research suggests that is extremely high for a 2 bed flat. please help, im so confused !!!
Thanks ollie

savemoney

I think unless you are a very low user that £50 a month for all electric flat is very low it should be around £80+ easily

How do you know you haven't used that amount?

If you dont tell them it will come back to haunt you

55kWh per day isnt that high for all electric if you are still using heating. Are you on a economy 7 tariff as normally the storage heaters will use electric at night and store it for daytime use

I use around 14kwh per day just for light, showers etc and have gas CH. I pay £85 per month for both

BargainGalore

Rough guess you use around £6.60 per day or £46.20 a week based on 0.12p per kwh could be much higher if you not on right tariff

Cardew

What research suggests that 55kWh per day is extremely high in winter?

Even with gas an average bill is around £1200 a year. An all electric flat will be considerably more(depending mainly on the use of heating and hot water)

4,000kWh is approx £400 spread over how many months?

JasX

1-make sure the reading you took when you moved in was accurately used by the electricity company as your start reading (if you didn;t take one you might be a bit stuffed).

All electric flats can use huge levels of electricity if their heating/water systems aren;t setup efficiently (my boss recently had a £1400 bill over 3 months for getting this wrong)

Find you immersion heater/water heating system and check its off/at least on a timer thats set sensibly/only comes on if you absolutely need it and to the minimum temperature you need

Same for your heating system, if possible have everything off for 24-48 hrs and see if that brings your useagge right down and work up from there

olliekatryna

i agree i would have used more through winter, however like i say, we are careful with our electricity, i have just again checked my meter, and there is one digit different in the meters serial number compared to my electricity bill :S does this have an effect? i just thought it was high compared to what i was paying before, im sure ive not used 4,000 extra units on top of what i was before in 3 months. my 3 previously quaterly bills i have used no more than 1,100 units in 3 months, so thats 4 times as much sorry if im just being stupid, thanks for all ur help so far, but i still feel a bit confused lol
ollie

anniecave

Don't think of it in terms of what you've used on top of an existing bill, because the existing bills may be estimated and therefore wrong.

Think of it in terms of what you've used over a given period.

What exact date did you move into the flat? What was the reading at that point? What is the reading now?

I used to live in an all electric flat, and i can confirm that we used to use a lot over winter.

KimYeovil

olliekatryna wrote: »

[...] upon close inspection, the meter readings are out by approximately 4000 kWh. i dont want to tell the energy company as that would suggest that we have used this extra 4000 but we havent![...]

Pesky shoemaker elves. It wasn't so bad in the olden days when they did things by hand so it was only the odd candle that was run down but now the thieving goblins sneak in at night and use power tools and watch plasmas whilst working - it's just not on!

olliekatryna

the last bill i recieved was apparantly an actual reading, that was what confused me, as i thought 4000 kwh was a lot for just under 3 months. especially as the bill before (Through winter) was only 1100 for 3 months. it just seems to be difficult to believe that i used 4 times as much since winter finnished, when i had the heating on nearly constantly through winter :S