3000 Units out!

mrs.butler

Morning all, looking for some advice our utility bills have always been pretty low £27 per month electricity and £20 gas. Just had a rebate on the gas but it lloks like my electricity could be out by 3000 units (in their favour). I need to double check the meter reading and get back to them. If so am I looking at a massive bill?

I am with Southern Electric on their General Better plan, I have paperless bills and pay by DD.

If anyone has an idea of how much I owe it would be much appreciated, am now very worried. :eek:

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mrs.butler wrote: »

Morning all, looking for some advice our utility bills have always been pretty low £27 per month electricity and £20 gas. Just had a rebate on the gas but it lloks like my electricity could be out by 3000 units (in their favour). I need to double check the meter reading and get back to them. If so am I looking at a massive bill?

I am with Southern Electric on their General Better plan, I have paperless bills and pay by DD.

If anyone has an idea of how much I owe it would be much appreciated, am now very worried. :eek:

3000 * your unit rate = likely amount owed

Cheers

Cardew

Between £300 and £350 I would have thought.

macman

At about 10p per kWh, around £300. When did you last submit a meter reading though? That's under estimated by about 9 month's average usage.
Not surprising, as £564 pa is less than half the average dual fuel budget. Your DD's need adjusting up (as indeed they will be now).

mrs.butler

Thanks guys just what I need before Xmas. I last submitted a meter reading in April, and have just had a rebate on my gas. If I pay the whole amount off, will my DD's still rise?

macman

You really need to submit meter readings every 3 months to avoid big catch up bills.
Yes, because clearly your DD's are inadequate to cover ongoing usage. Leaving them the same will simply result in another catch up bill sometime next year. More advice can be given if you post your annual kWh consumption, but your DD should be that times your unit rate, plus standing charges, divided by 12.
Your gas account should have a sizeable credit at this time of year as we are going into the 3 months of peak consumption. If your rebate has just zeroed it, you'll be in heavy debt after the winter months, as £20 per month for gas CH and DHW is not nearly enough-that's only 65p per day!

mrs.butler

Thanks my gas account is £65 in credit still,a nd my electricity is about £50 in credit (so I thought!). I will see if I can find the relevant information in regards to my annual useage.

macman

That is nothing like enough gas credit I'm afraid. You could be using that in a month in cold weather.
Your annual kWnh figs are available from your bills or by phoning your supplier.

mrs.butler

Is this of any help?

YOUR ELECTRICITY USAGE -

Meter: S66C07481
Unrestricted units 43925 (E) 44307 382
Unrestricted units 44307 45677 (E) 1370
YOUR ELECTRICITY BILL
Your Tariff is General Domestic No Standing Charge
20 Apr 2011 - 22 Apr 2011
Standard energy units
12 at 14.95p each £1.79
Discounted energy units
370 at 11.52p each £42.62
Your Tariff is better plan General Domestic NSC
22 Apr 2011 - 13 Sep 2011
Standard energy units
586 at 14.95p each £87.61
Discounted energy units
518 at 11.52p each £59.67
14 Sep 2011 - 20 Oct 2011
Standard energy units
140 at 16.50p each £23.10
Discounted energy units
126 at 12.06p each £15.19
Less your Monthly Direct Debit Discount -£13.35
Total charges before VAT £216.63
VAT at 5.00% on charges of £216.63 £10.82
TOTAL CHARGES THIS BILL INCLUDING VAT £227.45

macman

That's simply your last electricity bill, April-October. I thought we were concerned with your gas consumption? You have used 1,752 kWh of electricity in 6m. If you want your annual consumption, you need to go back to the meter reading from a bill a year ago, or from a year since about 20/10/11. Deduct old from new, that's your annual consumption.
Same principle with gas, except you'll need to convert meter units to kWh using the relevant formula (basically multiply by 11 or 31 depending on whether your meter is metric or imperial).

mrs.butler

Sorry cant find that information on my online account, thanks for your help though. Seriously worried now.:eek: