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Cheapest way to use the immersion heater
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Woah....do not.. under any circumstances leave the immersion on all the time. They use a lot of electricity and are hugely expensive to run.0
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even using the 2 rate meter? using it during the night?0
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How much are you paying per kwh for gas? How much for off peak electricity.0
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ok let me do some research.
I am on the standard dual fuel trarrif
gas -
tier 1 7.160p per kwh
tier 2 3.410p per kwh
electricity
night flat rate 5.584p kwh
day tier 1 32.379p kwh
day tier 2 12.157 kwh
vat inclu0 -
Assuming you use enough gas to pay for all of the tier 1 kwh, you would be paying 3.4p per kwh to heat your water by gas, or 5.6p by electricity.0
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ok I understand that. I just really have to work out how much units are charged at tier 1.
only use the immersion heater while I am in tier one and then let the gas boiler do rest of the work when I hit tier two.0 -
Tier 1 applies to the first 670 kWh per quarter (2680 kWh per annum for Pay As You Go Energy™) and all subsequent consumption is charged at Tier 2.
thats is copied from British Gas website.
this gets very confusing now becuase bills dated dec says i have been charged first 749kwh at tier one and then my latest bills is 661kwh at tier one. either there has been a change in the amounts of units in tier one or I have been billed wrongly.0 -
thats is copied from British Gas website.
this gets very confusing now becuase bills dated dec says i have been charged first 749kwh at tier one and then my latest bills is 661kwh at tier one. either there has been a change in the amounts of units in tier one or I have been billed wrongly.
Different number of days in those quarters?0 -
could be then becuase I have always sent a meter reading just to make sure its all correct and I sent a new bill with the updates changing the number of days in a quarter. I need to dig up the past few bills now the online account only lets me go back 3 bills.0
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Woah....do not.. under any circumstances leave the immersion on all the time. They use a lot of electricity and are hugely expensive to run.
Within reason it doesn't matter how long you leave them on as they all have a thermostat which switches them off - just like your electric kettle. except the thermostat switches them off at a set temperature, say, 65C.
There really is a lot of nonsense talked about the huge cost of leaving on immersion heaters 24/7.
Whilst I am not in any way suggesting you should leave it on 24/7 the real difference between 24/7 and timed is not more than 1kWh to 2kWh a day.0
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