Working out usage.

Turn_to_Grey

Hi Moneysavers,
Well, I now have one years worth of usage for my electricity & gas, and as nPower have upped the prices, it's time to shop around I think. The questions I need to answer are, the comparison sites ask for your annual consumption in kwh. The 'leccy readings are in kwh, is this correct ? And the gas readings are in units used, to convert to kwh there is a formula but a quick guesstimate is to multiply by 11, is this correct ?
Thanks in advance.

HappyMJ

The bills you have in your hand should have done the calculations for you so you should also have your gas usage is kWh. But yes the answer is multiply by 11 or 32 depending on meter type.

macman

Your meter will state if it reads in imperial units (100's cu ft) or metric (cu m).
However as HappyMJ says, your actual bills already give you the conversion to kWh, as that is what you are billed in.

Turn_to_Grey

Thanks for the speedy replies.
The readings are from the meters, as I take readings on a weekly basis and graph the results, sad I know. I've not had a bill since last year, so my readings are the years results from my own readings. :beer:

macman

Then you just need to convert the gas units to kWh's using the relevant conversion factor for your meter.
Why have you not had a bill in over 8 months though?

Turn_to_Grey

On line billing and mislaid the log in........! This has now prompted me to sort out the log in. The figures on the bill were not a million miles from my own calculations.

hecate20

As a generalisation, a unit on an imperial gas meter will be about £1.50 and on a metric meter about 50p

moonrakerz

Turn_to_Grey wrote: »

I now have one years worth of usage for my electricity & gas, and as nPower have upped the prices, it's time to shop around I think.

Turn_to_Grey wrote: »

I've not had a bill since last year, so my readings are the years results from my own readings.

As you haven't had a bill "since last year" - how do you come to the conclusion that nPower is possibly a lot more than everyone else ? ALL the energy companies have increased their prices.

AND......... stand by for a LARGE bill when you ask to leave nPower...........