[OVO] - Is my metre over clocking and how can I check?

PurpleGoldFish

Hi All

Something is afoot and I'm hoping you wonderful people are going to be able to tell me what...

Essentially, I joined OVO on the 15th Feb and submitted the readings and I called last Thursday to find out the monetary usage over the 5 weeks to make sure I'm paying enough via DD. Anyways in the last 5 weeks I've used over 1000KWH overnight (econ.7). I am all electric, here so I do use more at night but looking at my old power bills I didn't even manage 800KWH in almost 4 months (12th Dec '10- 28th Mar '11) on the night rate, so something isn't right, nothing has changed.

OVO say they can do a metre test but I have to pay £89 for it! If it's a dud then they'll refund me, but before I do that I want to see if they is anything I can do to find out what's happening.


HELP!

macman

Seems to me that it's your previous year's billing that is extraordinarily low. To only use 800kWH for E7 night rate over 105 days through the coldest winter for many years cannot be correct, unless the property is barely heated. Similarly, 1,000kWH over the coldest weeks of ths year is not exceptional either.
If you give us your day rate consumption as well it might put it in context.
Were you maybe heating the property last winter by using panel heaters on day rate, rather than your storage heaters.
Is your hot water also heated on E7 night rate?
PS: it's a meter.

Terrylw1

Did you submit the reading to change supplier? Did you give your previous supplier readings?

If you gave readings to change supplier, are the are your bill? If not, it could be an issue with estimation if your previous supplier had regular readings off you.

Speeding meters are more common than ofgem let onsince the speed tolerances are set but before going anywhere near a meter test you and your supplier should take a good look at bills, readings, appliances, spikes & irregularities.

Need a bit more info off you to say really.

PurpleGoldFish

I only have one heater (Night storage) and my water is also heated through the night.

The Meter (thanks for the spelling, lol) was installed in Dec' 09 and obviously started at 00000. My rates are Day 10.7p - Night 5.8p (Plus £80 standing charge PA)

jakirk

obviously started at 00000.

Did it? Mine didn't.

What are the actual readings on your meter now?

PurpleGoldFish

jakirk wrote: »

Did it? Mine didn't.

What are the actual readings on your meter now?

Yup, mine started at 00000.

Night 09505
Day 04901.

Closing nPower Readings/Opening OVO readings

Night 08576
Day 04813.


P.s Thanks for taking the time to have a look at this. :j

PurpleGoldFish

macman wrote: »

Seems to me that it's your previous year's billing that is extraordinarily low. To only use 800kWH for E7 night rate over 105 days through the coldest winter for many years cannot be correct, unless the property is barely heated. Similarly, 1,000kWH over the coldest weeks of ths year is not exceptional either.
If you give us your day rate consumption as well it might put it in context.
Were you maybe heating the property last winter by using panel heaters on day rate, rather than your storage heaters.
Is your hot water also heated on E7 night rate?
PS: it's a meter.

Even if the 800KWH for 105 is low, it still means the meter isn't working properly though, doesn't it?

macman

No, you're making assumptions. More likely to be a misreading or an estimated earlier bill I'd have thought.

PurpleGoldFish

Nah, can't be mis-reading, I do the readings every quarter. Even so from Dec '09 (00000) to 15th Feb (08576) divided by 26 months average 326KWH per month.

macman

An average of 3,912kWH pa for an all electric house is incredibly low. So if it was misreading then it appears to have corrected itself.
What might be more relevant is your last years consumption (i.e since the very low winter readings).

PurpleGoldFish

I don't have last years to hand - but I would consider myself to be a low user - There is only me [and the cat, but she doesn't use it often ] - and everything is energy efficient - Lights are 1 watt bulbs, Cooker, Fridge, DVD Player and TV (LED) are A rated, even the broadband router is an energy saving one.