Help! Why is my electricity so expensive?

[Deleted User]

Hi,

so you were using 11 units a day and only 2 units at night.

Switching off the On Peak Water should help, also you might find that your shower heats the water as you use it.

Take a daily reading to record your usage.

Former Spark Representative

Hello!


It sounds like you've had some good advice from forum members, but if you'd like us to look into this for you, please drop me a line using the email address in my profile.


We're more than happy to help


Kind regards


Jenny
Customer Relations Manager

adnanjanuzaj

wavelets wrote: »

Try an energy monitor to see where and when you are using energy

I think you've probably missed some things out (like the hot water) or underestimated how long you use some appliances.

Even if lights / tv / grill are on for longer than my estimates, shouldn't be so expensive? How much does it cost to have a TV on for an hour? Hardly anything I would think. It's a brand new TV with very good energy rating.

Water is off so will take a meter reading in a couple of days and see the results.

Nada666

£80 a month for E7 but would be about £50 a month on a standard one rate tariff. Your problem is you are a single person on an E7 tariff so are paying an extra 60% for each and (almost) every unit. Unless you want to use lots of lots of heating (unnecessary) you will be paying over the odds - you also want to pay by direct debit to 'disguise' the E7 distortion.

Probably better to switch to a non-E7 tariff. Depends on how much cooking and heating you want to use. Single person in a small insulated flat E7 is not a good idea.

adnanjanuzaj

Is it possible for me to switch to a standard one rate tariff? Would that mean getting a new meter fitted? I'm not sure I'm allowed to do that in this building but I can try to find out.

And I'm already on the direct debit tariff.

Former Spark Representative

adnanjanuzaj wrote: »

Is it possible for me to switch to a standard one rate tariff? Would that mean getting a new meter fitted? I'm not sure I'm allowed to do that in this building but I can try to find out.

If you contact us through the email address on my profile, I could help give you some more information about this


Jenny
Customer Relations Manager

Nada666

11 kWh per day

'Some' lights on six hours a day? So more than one? If standard 60 W or 100 W (say one of each) that's 1 kWh per day for a start. Add another kWh for cooking. Really, no showers or washing? Okay. Add another kWh for timers, internet, tv, and 1 and half kWh for fridge - that leaves only six and a half kWh being eaten up by seventeen hours a day hot water - that averages to 380 W - seems possible.

2013yearofthehouse

Applicances you may use, but didn't mention in your opening post:
Computer
Charging mobile phone and/or tablet
Internet router
Landline phone
Iron
Kettle
Hairdryer/styler

yangptangkipperbang

Your daily usage isn't outlandishly high - about 13 units a day. I am in a 1 bed apartment - all electric, full rate and E7. At the moment I am using (both rates) about 9 units a day. I do have an off peak heat store rather than an immersion which is quite efficient - that is all that the E7 is used for. Everything else is full rate; TV + Soundbar, PC (2 monitors), Cooker, Kettle, Microwave, Fridge, Freezer, lights, Sky, Phone, BB router.

The price you are paying per unit is VERY high - can you change supplier ??
I am with M & S Energy - using your figures and my unit charges I get a bill of £85 - a huge saving even before you start turning off the lights !

adnanjanuzaj

yangptangkipperbang wrote: »

Your daily usage isn't outlandishly high - about 13 units a day. I am in a 1 bed apartment - all electric, full rate and E7. At the moment I am using (both rates) about 9 units a day. I do have an off peak heat store rather than an immersion which is quite efficient - that is all that the E7 is used for. Everything else is full rate; TV + Soundbar, PC (2 monitors), Cooker, Kettle, Microwave, Fridge, Freezer, lights, Sky, Phone, BB router.

The price you are paying per unit is VERY high - can you change supplier ??
I am with M & S Energy - using your figures and my unit charges I get a bill of £85 - a huge saving even before you start turning off the lights !

Spark already told me I am on their cheapest available tariff.