How much has electricity price increased in % ?

Snooze

Hi,

Does anyone know where there's some official 'blurb' on how much electricity prices have increased over the past 2 years please?

I rent a flat for work and the exterior security lights for the parking area are hooked up to my meter (it's an old development). The management company has some agreement in place with the landlord's where they pay them for this 'arrangement' and in turn the LL passes the cost onto the tenant.

The lighting consists of a single orange tinted 'floodlight' onto the parking area, and a florescent light just outside mine and my immediate neighbour's doors. Both of these are controlled by a light sensor and are only on when the ambient light level is low.

The 'agreed' amount by the management company for 2009 was £96.36 according to my LL. I was expecting this figure to have increased for the 2010 period but I've just been informed that it's the same amount. I am pretty sure that electricity prices have risen quite substantially since then but I've been unable to find any percentages/official figures. Can anyone help with official 'blurb' so that I can go back to my LL and tell him to try again?

Thanks. :cool:

chris1973

Does anyone know where there's some official 'blurb' on how much electricity prices have increased over the past 2 years please?

Just Google / Google News a search for 'Electricity Price increase' and you'll probably find two news reports for last year alone, one of around 9% at the start of the year, and then another one of upto 20% towards the end, so thats over 25% for a start. Of course the actual percentage will depend on the actual supplier in question, as the actual percentages do vary slightly from supplier to supplier, although like sheep they follow each other.

The management company has some agreement in place with the landlord's where they pay them for this 'arrangement' and in turn the LL passes the cost onto the tenant.

What is actually stated on YOUR tenancy agreement?. It doesn't matter one bit what arrangement the LL has with the management company, the tenancy agreement is between you and the LL, if there is nothing on the agreement about additional charges for amenity or security lighting, what they are, and how it is to be paid / shared then sucks to be him!, because i'd be telling him to shove it somewhere where no SON light would light.

What else is / could this 'amenity' supply be feeding?, a plug for visiting workmen's kettles perhaps?, a nice christmas tree with lights in the grounds during the festive season?. Metered supplies are rarely put in just for two lights, there could easily be a consumer unit on this meter somewhere, feeding other circuits and a couple of sockets used for kettles, drills, vacuum cleaners etc etc, all at your expense.

If you want to work out the rough running costs, a small floodlight style SON light will consume about 85W (allowing for losses through the internal control gear) and the Fluorescent would probably be no more than about 70w - 90W for a 5 or 6 foot single tube - again allowing for losses in the control gear.

Personally, i'd be asking the LL for a copy of the actual bill from the Electricity supply company, or at least a look at it, to see if the consumption matches the few lights which are supposedly running off it. People do take liberties with essentially 'free' (to them) electricity.

Whilst there is nothing wrong, or new with LLs charging tenants for the Electricity used by shared internal amenity / security lighting, it is normally recovered from the tenants by way of some kind of 'fixed' monthly service charge added to the rent and all tenants would pay the same service fee.

For a 70w SON light and standard fluorescent, I wouldn't expect the bill to be much, where shared between two tenants. Of course it will be higher at this time of year, due to the longer nights, but this should be balanced out during the summer when its light until 10pm and dawn again at 4AM