preypayment meter - extortionate!

unreal83

Hi everyone. Typing this on my phone, just moved into new rented property so no net yet.

Anyway, have prepayment electric meter, have put on£ 45 since moving in 9 days ago and
Meter now says 8.50! That's 4 quid a day. Have turned off storage heaters as too expensive to run but meter still going down so quick! Does this sound right? Am running a 2 bed flat, with normal amount of appliances on - this morning it dropped 1.50 in 3 hrs!!!

What can I do? No debt on meter.

k9cmh

There may be a debt that taken off from their side... yes it is more expensive. As your're being penalised for pre-payment. I would phone them and make sure there is no debt on it.

Joyful

You are not being penalised for having a PP meter. Most are charged at the same price as credit meters on standard tariff.

Make sure there is no debt on screen S and that you are using a reset key from the supplier( not the previous tenants).

Electric storage radiators are costly to run and it may all be down to that.

Meant to say that £4 per day is not too bad for heating and the other electrics at this time of year. People with Gas can easily be using £5 just to heat their homes.

spiro

Agree with joyful. Make sure you only you a key issued to you. Have you check the immersion heater is not on all the time?

As you say you have storage heaters you will probably be on an E7 tariff, this means night time (12-7 ish) elec is cheaper than usual but day time is more expensive so you need to watch what you use during the day i.e. use washing machine/drier at night.