simple gas elec cacalation advice

essexbob

as a simple cost guide can you just divide bill by units used surely this would provide simple comparison to moniter daily costs without the whole kwh thing if so posting simple units costs would help everyoneone compare their bills and gas elec usage.

penrhyn

Electricity units are Kwh.

Yes you could, or use a site like https://www.imeasure.org.uk and produce pretty graphs.

grahamc2003

essexbob wrote: »

as a simple cost guide can you just divide bill by units used surely this would provide simple comparison to moniter daily costs without the whole kwh thing if so posting simple units costs would help everyoneone compare their bills and gas elec usage.

Wouldn't work because most people are on (at least) two rates - Tier one rate for the first couple of hundred units, and tier two for the remainer.

So for example, for electricity, if tier one is 25p/kwh and tier 2 is 10p/kwh, then the average rate of a persons usage will vary between 25p and something like 11p depending on usage. Add to that E7 rates, different tariffs for the same product in different areas and a multitude of different tariffs anyhow, then different discounts for various things for different lengths of time, and you have the confusion marketting the suppliers want, making comparisons quite difficult (and making your proposed method pretty useless for that purpose).

Premier_2

essexbob wrote: »

as a simple cost guide can you just divide bill by units used surely this would provide simple comparison to moniter daily costs without the whole kwh thing if so posting simple units costs would help everyoneone compare their bills and gas elec usage.

Yes. this would work fine with Ebico, but I don't know of any other supplier that offers such a simple tariff.

Robert2009

It all depends.

I work out how much 1 kWh of electricity and 1 kWh of gas are by dividing the yearly bill, say £400 for 4000 kWh of electricity which gives roughly 10p per kWh and £560 for 18000 kWh of gas which gives 3.1p per kWh of gas.

You could get a more accurate figure by calculating how much you use at tier 1 per day (900/365 for electricity from e.on) then add on usage at tier 2. same with gas, but at the end of the day it still comes out on average what I have posted above.