Has Scottish Power Prepay Electric gone up by 30 percent

Atidi

10600kWh per year annual electricity consumption? :eek:

Where do you get that figure from as you say you are a fairly new customer? :huh:

As an example, that is more energy than we use in total (gas & electric) and we use gas for heating (space & hot water) - that's an old boiler that is probably no more than 60% efficient compared to electricity that is as near as dammit 100% efficient.

notbritishgas

Crikey OP, I have just worked out your annual costs and if I am correct your old costs were £1219 and your new ones will be £1503. I make that a 23% increase.

Atidi

notbritishgas wrote: »

I think the fire could be the reason day usage is high.

But 10,600kWh per year? :eek:

That's almost 30 kWh per day, every day 365 days per year.

So that would require that heater to be on two bars 15 hours per day, every day to use that amount of electricity.
Yes, everyday, even right through all the summer months where ambient temperatures could be as high as 80, 90, even 100 F

Atidi

notbritishgas wrote: »

Crikey OP, I have just worked out your annual costs and if I am correct your old costs were £1219 and your new ones will be £1503. I make that a 23% increase.

They could make a huge saving by reducing consumption and maximising their use of the cheap, low rate electricity

greengarnet

These figures come from an NPower annual consumption statement from just over 12 months ago when we were with them. I don't know why it's so high but it has always been that way since we moved in over 10 years ago. We had the old token metre exchanged for one of the new key metres by NPower and nothing changed consumption wise. I just know it costs what it costs. I've watched the metre, turning things off then back on again one at a time and as notbritishgas says, it does indeed seem to be the electric fire. We have to have it on at least one bar which barely takes the chill off our largish 18ft by 12ft living room, we're very high up in a concrete built flat and it's very cold in here even in the summer sometimes. We never and I do mean never put on the stone age night storage heaters because we tried one of them years ago and it nearly cleared the metre of credit. I've had them in to check the metre also because I thought it was wrong somehow but was told there was nothing wrong with it. We are watchful about what we have on but nobody ever believes we are or that it costs us so much.

notbritishgas

greengarnet wrote: »

These figures come from an NPower annual consumption statement from just over 12 months ago when we were with them. I don't know why it's so high but it has always been that way since we moved in over 10 years ago. We had the old token metre exchanged for one of the new key metres by NPower and nothing changed consumption wise. I just know it costs what it costs. I've watched the metre, turning things off then back on again one at a time and as notbritishgas says, it does indeed seem to be the electric fire. We have to have it on at least one bar which barely takes the chill off our largish 18ft by 12ft living room, we're very high up in a concrete built flat and it's very cold in here even in the summer sometimes. We never and I do mean never put on the stone age night storage heaters because we tried one of them years ago and it nearly cleared the metre of credit. I've had them in to check the metre also because I thought it was wrong somehow but was told there was nothing wrong with it. We are watchful about what we have on but nobody ever believes we are or that it costs us so much.

If you really really NEVER use the night storage heaters then you should not be on an E7 tariff as your day rates are higher than a normal tariff.

Atidi

greengarnet wrote: »

These figures come from an NPower annual consumption statement from just over 12 months ago when we were with them. I don't know why it's so high but it has always been that way since we moved in over 10 years ago. We had the old token metre exchanged for one of the new key metres by NPower and nothing changed consumption wise. I just know it costs what it costs. I've watched the metre, turning things off then back on again one at a time and as notbritishgas says, it does indeed seem to be the electric fire. We have to have it on at least one bar which barely takes the chill off our largish 18ft by 12ft living room, we're very high up in a concrete built flat and it's very cold in here even in the summer sometimes. We never and I do mean never put on the stone age night storage heaters because we tried one of them years ago and it nearly cleared the metre of credit. I've had them in to check the metre also because I thought it was wrong somehow but was told there was nothing wrong with it. We are watchful about what we have on but nobody ever believes we are or that it costs us so much.

Well there you go.

Admission to just how wasteful you are being. Thank you.

Atidi

notbritishgas wrote: »

If you really really NEVER use the night storage heaters then you should not be on an E7 tariff as your day rates are higher than a normal tariff.

Brilliant moneysaving advice for this user :beer::money::cool:

Based on their current declared usage and E7 tariff, it will cost them £1503 per year when the new prices come into effect.

Change to a single rate tariff and it would cost them £1547.

:doh:

greengarnet

Atidi wrote: »

Well there you go.

Admission to just how wasteful you are being. Thank you.

No, thank you for your kind words. I have Raynaud's disease on top of arthritis and getting too cold is screamingly painful. I have so much pain sometimes that I've come close to killing myself before now. Maybe I could somehow try willing my hands and feet to not feel the cold induced agony till the middle of the night when the electric would be cheaper. So yes, I admit to "wasting" electric by having some heating on during the day in a flat with all the characteristics of an icebox.

Wywth

greengarnet wrote: »

I'm shoving £35 a week in the damn meter as it is (being all electric), we can't afford to pay £13-£20 a week extra once it gets really cold for our electric and this is well freaking me out.

Good news, if Atidi is correct in their calculation

Atidi wrote: »

Based on their current declared usage and E7 tariff, it will cost them £1503 per year when the new prices come into effect.

That equates to less than £29 per week or more than a 17% saving! :j:money::T:A