Electricity Bill Madness

Nada666

Bluebirdman_of_Alcathays wrote: »

Sort out your consumption. You've used 5750 KWh in 4 months, average all electric households use 4700 KWh in a year. At the moment you're using somewhere between double and treble the national average.

??? 1,400 kWh for heating, hot water and cooking?

Bluebirdman_of_Alcathays

Nada666 wrote: »

??? 1,400 kWh for heating, hot water and cooking?

Yes.

https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/ofgem-publications/74735/tdcv-review-consultation.pdf

I've assumed the chap has a profile class 2 meter. Page 11 or 19 summarises.

Nada666

Bluebirdman_of_Alcathays wrote: »

Yes.

https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/ofgem-publications/74735/tdcv-review-consultation.pdf

I've assumed the chap has a profile class 2 meter. Page 11 or 19 summarises.

So the average user with gas central heating foolishly spending £1100 per year should switch off the gas to save £400 and spend only £700 per year through changing to electricity?

(4,700 * 13p = £611 plus £90 SC)

I'm missing something.

Bluebirdman_of_Alcathays

Nada666 wrote: »

So the average user with gas central heating foolishly spending £1100 per year should switch off the gas to save £400 and spend only £700 per year through changing to electricity?

(4,700 * 13p = £611 plus £90 SC)

I'm missing something.

So am I, further proof of OFGEM's ridiculous decision making perhaps? But I can't see how the figures say anything else.

In any case the OP is using far too much.

2013yearofthehouse

Nada666 wrote: »

So the average user with gas central heating foolishly spending £1100 per year should switch off the gas to save £400 and spend only £700 per year through changing to electricity?

(4,700 * 13p = £611 plus £90 SC)

I'm missing something.

I used approx. 3500kwh when I was all electric. I'd say slightly more than 1400kwh of that was heating/hot water. This was a small 1 bed flat with just me though.

My guess would be that perhaps the average for all electric is skewed by the types of properties it tends to be found in?

I would have thought a lot of all electric properties are flats, perhaps small 1 bed or 2 bed flats, outnumbering the houses (and perhaps even they tend to be smaller houses/bungalows), therefore making a higher percentage of users low usage users, with less space to heat and lower occupancy. In contrast, the duel fuel averages probably take in a much wider range of property sizes and types, including more larger houses with more occupants (obviously more space doesn't matter as they heat by gas, but more space often leads to more occupants) and less small flats.

That's just my wild guess though....

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EDF do a similar tariff, called a 20/20 meter, needs their own meter installed. Its a 12 hours on 12 hours off for low/high rates. I have the timings written down somewhere. so these meters do exist. Its not an uncommon meter.

CaptainMatt

Thanks for all the replies and suggestions. Yes my fault and an obvious typo that the cheaper rate should have been 11p and not the same as the peak rate.
Thanks Pheonix254 for the comprehensive advice and suggestions. I am looking into better tariffs which may help a bit but clearly isn't the route of the problem. In terms of use the immersion has been checked and off when not required, no heating when we are sleeping and only when absolutely necessary, no tumble dryer, cooler clothes washes and only off peak. Will have to use some deduction to see what combination of items are drawing this level of electricity.


Slightly odd that this tariff seems to have very little known about it. We have had lots of problems with metres in the past and charging so SSE said that they would put us on this tariff which was the best one!!??


I need to see if the radiators are really pulling that much power when on but the little smart reader I purchased can be a bit inaccurate and the radiators are hard wired to the wall and not plugged so it's had to use a plug in device to see what they use unless the is an alternative tool. If the metre reading dip significantly over the summer this may be the case...since we use them less it has gone down but as you can see from the last 4 months...not that much.