excessive electricity bills form EDF

lab0486

Can anyone help, I'm new to all of this moved into my first flat a few months ago.

I seem to be getting excessive bills from EDF energy, this is the most recent one, All utilities are no gas in the property electric, cooker, heating etc.

I have all the usual stuff running in the evening, broadband, tv etc.
Is this normal, from what I am reading on here, the usage seems to be huge.

Electricity charges 02 Feb 12 - 11 Apr 12

Tariff: Deemed Economy 7
previous latest units kWh split price total
Day 02 Feb 12 to 11 Apr 12 17637 19251 1614 1614 at 14.87p £240.00

Night 02 Feb 12 to 11 Apr 12 7237 9006 1769 1769 at 5.43p £96.06

Standing Charge 70 days at 18.00p £12.60

Total electricity charges £348.66

There must be something running causing 48.32 kWh per day usage, where do i start looking! I need to reduce these bills!

vuvuzela

Are the meter readings estimated or actual ?

lab0486

They are actual.

Thanks

[Deleted User]

:eek: That's high...

For comparison our all elec detached 100 odd year old bungalow was £78 over same period.

House maintained at 20c [by ASHP] come rain or shine...

I think you need a monitor to go round the house to see what items are using to narrow down the high consumption...

jalexa

lab0486 wrote: »

I'm new to all of this moved into my first flat a few months ago.

I seem to be getting excessive bills from EDF energy, this is the most recent one,

I don't entirely follow. How many bills exactly? The most recent one is 70 days and you have only been in a few months.

How did the previous bill compare with the most recent bill?

How many storage heaters do you have (and use)? Do you top up your heating with day rate electricity?

How much of your water heating is night rate and how much is day rate?

lab0486

I have been there 6 months and the previous 70 day bill before this was the same also with the average usage being 48kwh per day

The property has ceiling heating so i believe there is just 1 water storage heater. Yes I do top up heating with day rate electricity


How much of your water heating is night rate and how much is day rate? not sure, how can i check this,

Thanks

jalexa

lab0486 wrote: »

The property has ceiling heating

Sadly there is no merit in having the ceiling heating on overnight. Do you know how the ceiling heating is controlled?

there is just 1 water storage heater

Ideally there should be a water heating timer set to heat the water on night rate? Can you identify the timer?

Yes I do top up heating with day rate electricity

Unfortunately heating with day rate electricity is not cheap. That said, if you are satisfied with your comfort levels, your overall usage is not that excessive though I'm surprised at 25kWhr/day overnight without storage heating. Find out the reason for that.

EDFInsider

lab0486 wrote: »

Tariff: Deemed Economy 7

Have you actually signed a contract? Or is it still in name of Owner/Occupier?

Deemed Prices are higher than even standard prices, will let anyone else help on usage guides

dogshome

"Deemed Economy 7"

Just might help - My son took on the tenancy of a house and on his first bill from EDF, the Gas tariff was titled "Deemed Gas", whilst the Elec tariff was "Standard"

When checking the bill I found that the cost of the "Deemed Gas" was higher than EDF's Standard tariff - Phone calls to EDF went nowhere as the reply was that all new accounts were on a Deemed tariff

It took me 2 hours of blundering around EDF's website to discover that tariffs that carry the word "Deemed" in the title are in fact business tariffs that apply to new accounts moving into Commercial Premises, which of course the people manning the Domestic help desk knew nothing about

It took a letter of Complaint to get EDF to recognise their mistake and re-bill with both Gas & Elec on the Standard tariff - which included a cash sweetner to compensate for the error

lab0486

Thanks i will check the tariffs, i do also have a storage heater also set would that account for the nightly kwh usage

jalexa

lab0486 wrote: »

i do also have a storage heater also set would that account for the nightly kwh usage

Quite likely. Must just be about warm enough to switch it off and see.

BTW, take daily readings not wait for a bill.