Electricity too expensive

penrhyn

I pointed out in my earlier post that you need to work out your annual electricity consumption, its pointless quoting how much you are paying.
Tesco's sell Owl monitors google for other choices, around £35, or free from your electricity supplier on some tarrifs.

teajug

victor2 wrote: »

Some electricity supply companies offer a free monitor, just look on the website for yours and see if they offer anything. If you are not within easy reach of the meter though, it'll be no use.
Another free way to check is to read your meter daily at the same time and see what you are using under different circumstances.
If neither of those are practical, you could consider a monitor to use in a single socket, something like this. You could probably get one a bit cheaper off fleabay. They can only tell you about the device plugged into them though, where something like the Owl monitor does the entire draw on the metered supply.
To quickly check if any other flat is drawing on your meter, switch everything off in your flat and check the meter - it should not be registering anything at all, even if left for 30 minutes or longer.

Thanks Victor2 for information, I will turn off everything tomorrow and see what happens, what should I look for on the meter to see if other flats are drawing on my meter and how would I know which flat it would be.:o

teajug

Penrhyn I have received a beakdown for my electric supplier and it say that my usage is 7.69.

Lemoncurd

teajug wrote: »

Thanks penrhyn for information do you know how much the monitor costs and where can I purchase one. The meter can be read and I pay by direct debit.

Some libraries loan monitors for free, ours always has some on display.

victor2

teajug wrote: »

Thanks Victor2 for information, I will turn off everything tomorrow and see what happens, what should I look for on the meter to see if other flats are drawing on my meter and how would I know which flat it would be.:o

If you have a mechanical meter with dials, the disc which you can see rotating in normal use should not be moving at all with everything switched off. If it's a digital meter, you need to read the display and then check it again after something like 15 minutes to see if there's been a change. You'll be looking at the fractions of units after the decimal point.
If there is any use, then you'll have to notify your supplier that there's a problem. It will be very difficult for you to establish where the power is going.

Best to do the check in the evening when other flats are occupied. You'll need a torch!:)

penrhyn

teajug wrote: »

Penrhyn I have received a beakdown for my electric supplier and it say that my usage is 7.69.

Sorry, what does that mean?
7.69 Kwh per day?
That would be around 2800 Kwh per year, which is around 800 Kwh more than i use in a three bed single household with gas CH.

2800 Kwh would cost between £300 -£400 (£25-£34 pm)per year depending on the tarriff.

macman

OP, the figure you need to confirm is your annual kWh consumption, which your supplier can tell you, or which you can calculate from your last 4 bills (just find last actual closing reading, then find another actual reading from a bill about a year prior). Deduct latter from former, and that's your annual consumption in kWh.
Without this figure, all is speculation.