Cost of Gas per unit - help please

sunshine_girl_2

Can anyone help me with a rough idea of the cost of gas per unit please?

I am living in a 2 bedroom rented flat as a stop gap between selling and buying a new property, and have just received an invoice for gas from the landlord. He is charging £297.55 for 241 units of gas, so 123.46p per unit. This equates to almost double what I was paying for a 4 bedroom house last year. I have put the question into google but cannot find a straightforward answer, only masses of comparison sites! Any help would be very much appreciated.

Premier_2

sunshine_girl wrote: »

Can anyone help me with a rough idea of the cost of gas per unit please?

I am living in a 2 bedroom rented flat as a stop gap between selling and buying a new property, and have just received an invoice for gas from the landlord. He is charging £297.55 for 241 units of gas, so 123.46p per unit. This equates to almost double what I was paying for a 4 bedroom house last year. I have put the question into google but cannot find a straightforward answer, only masses of comparison sites! Any help would be very much appreciated.

It depends what units you are looking at.

1 kWh is about 3.5p (give or take a bit)

However, meters don't measure kWh directly.
A metric meter unit is about 11 kWh

But an old style imperial meter unit is about 33 kWh, so if this is the case then your landlord's cost is approximately correct.

As the landlord is not permitted to profit from the resale of the energy, you could ask him to show you the original invoice.

Consumerist

sunshine_girl wrote: »

He is charging £297.55 for 241 units of gas, so 123.46p per unit.

What do you mean by a "unit"?

(a) 100 cubic feet (hcf) recorded by an imperial gas meter
(b) cubic metres (m3) recorded by a metric gas meter
(c) Kilowatt-hours (kWh) the unit of energy.

Gas is charged by the kWh but there is an additional standing charge which varies considerably from supplier to supplier.

macman

He needs to bill you per kWh, not per cu m or 100 cu ft.
Gas is billed in kWh's, not by volume.
If it's 241 cu m, that is 2,738kWh, so he's more than doubling the typical rate.
If it's 100's cu ft, that's 7,750kWh-about right.
So we need to know which.

sunshine_girl_2

Many thanks for taking the time to reply. Sorry Macman, no thanks button on your post but thank you! The meter is imperial so sounds as though it could be correct, just incredibly high! Thanks again.