Strange Meter readings!

bafty_crastard

I've changed gas and electricity supplier about a month ago. Got an email yesterday asking for meter readings.

I sent meter readings when the supplier changed. My electric meter read 36060 kW/h. Today when I've submitted my reading of 36613 it flagged up a problem. Looking on the website it looks like a meter readings been done 2 days ago of 36347.

How can I use 287 units of electricity between 9/11 and 4/12 then another 266 units from 4/12 till today 6/12?

Nada666

You didn't. You used 533 kWh between 9 Nov and 6 Dec. The other one was an estimate.

Probably.

Nada666

... then again, maybe not. If you have gas central heating you shouldn't be using 19 or 20 kWh per day of electricity.

Read your meter for a day or two and check how much you are using day to day.

bafty_crastard

I have gas central heating. Why would they estimate the day before asking for a meter reading?
I'll check the meter daily for the next few days and see what happens.
I'm dual fuel with them and there's no meter reading on the gas account apart from the ones I've submitted

dogshome

Even with regular meter readings by the customer, it's not unusual for the supplier to issue an Estimted bill before the customers meter read due date, (esimated readings have E prefix to the reading

bafty_crastard

There's no E beside the reading from 2 days ago

Jonesy88

I'd take another read tomorrow. If your usage between 4-6th is comparable to the 6-8th then it's a usage issue, you can work out how to reduce etc if you want to.

If the usage is more comparable to the 9/11 - 6/12 then it would probably point to the 4/12 read being incorrect, and you'd have consumption evidence to back this up.

Eta: for this to work you'd need to work out units per day used to compare everything.

macman

Did your supplier increase their price around 5/12? If so they may have estimated and flagged the usage at that date in order to bill each period at the differing rates.
Supplier and tariff?

bafty_crastard

Npower and fixed deal till March 2017

Checked meter again today 24 hours after yesterday's reading. We've used 16k/w since yesterday....but as it's the weekend we're all home so more things being used (laptops, washing machine, tumble drier) than normal when we're all out at work/college. I'll check it again same time tomorrow and see how it is then

bafty_crastard

Ok, used 23k/w in the past 24 hours :eek:

Although we're all home at weekends I seriously need to do something about how much electricity we use!

Washing machine, tumble drier and dishwasher all been on once today. Oven has been on a couple of times, kids had pizza at lunch and we roasted a chicken tonight. TV has been on for a few hours this afternoon. Will check reading again tomorrow.

lstar337

That's a lot of usage for 24hours.

That's close to what we use, and we have an all electric house with night storage heaters.

EDIT: That was in fact our exact usage for Sunday.