£70 a month electricity?

mharwood04

Id love an electric bill that cheap...mine is about £170-£200 a month with being all electric.

HappyMJ

macman wrote: »

Are you sure that your are on E7, which is typically available for 7 hours between midnight to 8am (not at 8pm, which is a peak demand time)? E7 is no good at all for a wet electric CH system, except for heating some stored hot water. But I think what you actually have is an immersion heater for your hot water-not an 'electric boiler'.
How could you possibly expect to heat, power and hot water an all-electric property for £29 a month? That's about a third of the average. Just not realistic I'm afraid.

It's a restricted hours tariff. Similar to E10.

sazpot

Last year we had a 2 bed flat on electric only, we were paying £80 ish a month. Just 2 showers a day, lights, washing maching, fridge freezer, tv and charging phones and a netbook. We barely even ate at home (more convenient to eat around the train station on the commute home) or used the heating as we had neighbours above, below, either side and across the hall, the only external wall was to an enclosed courtyard.

Your agent were being completely unrealistic! We pay £100 PCM for gas and electric for a 2 bed semi and I expect we may be in arrears slightly by the spring!

macman

HappyMJ wrote: »

It's a restricted hours tariff. Similar to E10.

But why only 25kWh recorded on the night rate, if storage heaters are being used?

HappyMJ

macman wrote: »

But why only 25kWh recorded on the night rate, if storage heaters are being used?

The 4,333kWh used on the heaters are on the heat rate. A different register that they called RHT Normal.

gneiss_2

we have been averaging about £3.80:j a day over the last year but thats just about to change due to the near 10% price increase, in july and august our daily electricity was around 82p per day thats with four adults in a small three bedroom house, we have an nibe air source pump plus radiators and a solar panel, we have only once had the immersion heaters on, soon after it was installed we switched them on to see what effect they had, not much that we noticed in the heating , prehaps a bit more hot water but what we did notice was that the cost shot up to over £8.00 a day:eek:so no immersion heaters, last winter here was mild,only -6deg., so we await this winter with some trepidation, will the ASHP need the immersion heaters as backup.
The new prices on E10 with scottish hydro are 18.17p high and 10.53p low, I'm dwelling on the idea of switching but the high prices here are put down to transmission (we have some huge hydro generation within miles of us and another costing £800 million+ in the planning stages so you would think that being with the 'hydro it would be cheaper:mad:)
What I think helps to cut our electric bill is we use LPG for cooking, 2*45kg bottles a year at £62 eachwhich works out at around 34p a day.
I'm working on reducing our energy bill but I think the energy companies are seeing how much people are saving (we had quite a refund) so they know how much they are losing hence above inflation rises:(

twinklerook

Hi - I'm really sorry to jump in this thread but I'm new and can't work out how to ask a new question to Helena.
Can anyone (or Helena) explain how I go about changing from a key and card service to a monthly meter? The house I'm about to move into (RENTED) have told me if I change I have to pay 'a few £100' to change it back. This scares me! If we don't stay many years its a large loss against the savings from lower cost on the monthly bill.

I'm already with eon, and I have a great tarrif which I don't want to loose any advise or links to threads which explain the cost of the change of meters will be much appreciated.
Kind regards
Gemma

daz378

i live alone in a tower block heating part of the rent electric cooker, pay about £41 pound a month , usage (with eon) between 8-9 kwhs per day, got a really old fridge over 10 yr old, that may not be to efficient .... does this sound about right .... 2 bedroom flat?

Richie-from-the-Boro

Elle7 wrote: »

Is this normal?!

We've just moved into a new house. It's a terraced house, in the middle, and it has two bedrooms. The heater is unplugged in one, there is no heating in the bathroom, there is two storage heaters in the big living room - nothing in the kitchen.

We have an electric hob and I believe the boiler is also electric, although that has been broken for the past 3 weeks. We do have an oil-filled heater on low downstairs most of the time because it's freezing and I've got bad medical conditions that flare up hugely when it's cold.

The boiler is on economy 7 - comes on at 8pm I believe, and heats up all the water for the day at night. Storage heaters do the same. We use the washing machine around three times a week, the dishwasher once a day/once every two days.

Our first E-on bill has just come. There was some trouble setting it up because we took 2 readings, as instructed over the phone, when we moved in. The letting agent took a photo but that only shows one reading. An electric man did read the meter after we'd been here for three days. They phoned last week to say that they really needed the third reading to calculate costs, but couldn't say what we could do if we don't have it. The old tenant didn't supply it - she left here with huge debts, including to E-on, and we still get lots of debt letters for her.

Anyway, first bill came today. 10th Oct to 8th Nov. It's estimated at £70.15, with £3.02 credit for prompt payment.

It says we've used 185 'day' rate kilowatt hours, 25 'night' rate kilowatt hours and 4333 'RHT normal' kilowatt hours.

We've also got a standing charge - 29 days at 6.84p each - only making up £1.98.

I'm baffled. We had expected it to be lower than this - the estate agent had estimated costs at around £29 a month. We were apprehensive about going somewhere with storage heaters but combined with all the other (sky high) bills for this place, we can't afford £70 a month! It's not even warm...I'm wearing three or four jumpers most days, and everyone who comes in comments on how cold it is.

Any advice? It'd be much appreciated!

Elle7,

- .. .. all electric, 93p per day [£29pm] . .. ... in November .. ..only in the Canary Islands
- you don't have a boiler, you have night store hot water at about 30% of the normal electrical cost
- you do have night store heating at about 30% of the normal electrical cost, which you are not using properly
- one reading is no use whatsoever, you need to read and submit once a month each month
- the only really additional expensive thing is the oil-filled heater on low downstairs
- you should be using most of your leccy at night, and least during the day
- but your using 25kWh night and 185kWh day, so your not using your space & water heating properly

Look you clearly have an E7 / E10 setup, and though you give your supplier 2 readings that doesn't of itself mean you are on an E7/E10 type tariff. Find out from 'Helena' exactly what you tariff is Elle7. Either you are not using your E7/E10 properly or even at all or you are on an 'aggregated' tariff from your supplier.

zzzLazyDaisy

10 years ago I lived in a modern, well insulated, small, two bed apartment with storage heaters. My monthly DD was £25, and when I left after 18 months I had £100 shortfall to make up.

Electricity prices have probably more than quadrupled since then. Your letting agent has completely conned you. I bet if you go back and speak to him, he will insist he said £25 a week - which would be much more like it.