New Gas Meter - More Usage!?

Cardew

Xbigman wrote:

Sorry for the shortness of my first post. As others have said, metric meters 'units' are a third of the size of imperial units, so your meter readings will be higher.
Check your last bill, if the price of your gas was between about 8p to 12p a unit (lower rate if two tier) then you were probably imperial.
Regards



X

Unusually I think your arithmetic is out this time!(by a factor of 10?

An Imperial unit is in the region of 30kWh and an Metric unit 11kWh. So gas at 2.5 -3.0p/kWh will be 80-90p a unit.

Cactus_Jack

I work for an energy company (not BG), if a customer is suspicious that the meter isn't operating correctly we usually suggest to take two meter readings seven days apart, and call in and speak to our consumption team to discuss if it sounds rght, etc. Any indication the meter is faultly and we book an appointment.

It might be an idea to get away from BG - bad CS from what I hear, and expensive.

Xbigman

Cardew wrote:

Unusually I think your arithmetic is out this time!(by a factor of 10?

An Imperial unit is in the region of 30kWh and an Metric unit 11kWh. So gas at 2.5 -3.0p/kWh will be 80-90p a unit.

Yes, sorry - shoot me

I must learn to post when I'm not talking on the phone at the same time.

I'm currently paying 25p a unit on metric at the cheap end on the scale, so 80p to 90p would be right for an imperial unit (possibly more if on a crap tarif).
Regards



X

PS. Blimey my gas usage this winter is low. Average over the last year is now down to 16.08 units a month. Global warming, I love it :blushing:

Gal

Cactus_Jack wrote:

I work for an energy company (not BG), if a customer is suspicious that the meter isn't operating correctly we usually suggest to take two meter readings seven days apart, and call in and speak to our consumption team to discuss if it sounds rght, etc. Any indication the meter is faultly and we book an appointment.

It might be an idea to get away from BG - bad CS from what I hear, and expensive.

:rotfl: Judging by that I would say you work for powergen.