Inexplicable electricty usage

Digondda

I moved house in February and have been monitoring my electricity usage.

I appear to be using 10-11 Kwh every 24 hours, which I find totally inexplicable. My electricity usage monitor and meter are in agreement on usage. Occasionally there is a day where 6-7 Kwh is used.

The high usage seems to be overnight and during the daytime - when i am asleep or at work - as well as during the evenings when I am home. It's often high for the 24 hr period when I have not been at home at all...

I thought it might be my old freezer so have changed that for a small A+ rated one (fridge is also A+).

I don't have electric heating or water heating. I don't have a TV.

I use the kettle a maximum of twice a day, the small dishwasher every other day, the iron & oven once a month, the vacuum cleaner, oven & breadmaker once a week.

All light bulbs are low energy. I have a laptop and use it for maybe 5 hours a day. I have a BT home hub 3 but can't imagine that uses a lot of electricity (can't find any info on how much).

I live alone, and am energy conscious. I can account for around 2-3Kwh a day. Any suggestions as to what might be happening?

neil9313

Immersion on 24 hr?

Turn everything off including fridge/frezzer for 2mins, whats the monitor say?

thriftymanc

Can you ask your electricity company to send someone round to look over the meter? It could be faulty and need replacing, my parents had to get their meter replaced last year, they got one abnormally high bill one month and the meter had basically just got stuck turning at a set speed instead of reading the actual usage, the meter was replaced and the difference refunded. Or could your meter actually be connected to someone else's supply? That happened to a friend of mine, she was the only person living in her house and worked away a lot but her bills were huge, it turned out her meter and her neighbour's meters were the wrong way round so she'd been paying the bills for a family of four!

Digondda

Ni immersion - water heated by combi boiler.

Tried turning everything off for 5 mins, now all back on and monitor now not giving 'energy now' reading, so maybe monitor is faulty.

Meter looks new but will contact supplier to raise concern.

Electricity monitor says I have used 12kwh in last day, 53kwh in last 7 days, 278 in last 30 days.

Will take meter readings every 12 hours and check again that meter and monitor figures compare.

molerat

When you had everything turned off was the meter showing any consumption i.e. red light flashing / dial turning ?

There are 2 ways of turning off
1. Turn off each appliance in turn and see what the energy monitor reads as you gradually turn everything off. Eventually it should read 0.
2. Turn off at the switch on your fusebox and check the meter, this will show if there is any tap between your meter and fusebox.

Flick the monitor off and on again it will probably come back ok, mine does this.

misterbarlow

some of the older energy monitors are as bad as only 50-60% accurate...