High Electricity Bills!

victor2

I you don't have your bills going back a year, you should be able to find them in your online account. In those statements you'll see the meter readings and which ones were estimates.
If you don't have any electric heating but do have mostly energy saving bulbs, you should find your electricity consumption is pretty constant over the year, with only a small increase due to the extra lighting used in winter.
From those statements, you should be able to work out your actual annual usage, assuming the starting reading was correct. It could be that EDF's high figure is due to them looking at the annual usage between a very low estimate and a current actual reading you have provided.

janiec

Thank you all for your very helpful posts.
I have been back over the bills, which seem to only be created from one meter reading to another? The ACTUAL KwHs we have used over this last year is 6498. This puts us above Ofgem High User.
As mentioned there are only two of us and I work four days a week in an office and my husband works in London 3 days a week. We don't have underfloor heating, saunas or a swimming pool......I was actually asked that by EDF today!! We live in a small 2 bed terraced house.
Cannot for the life of me work out why we would be classed as very high end users?
Janie. :eek:

Lube

10 units a day isnt that bad not high but not low either we consume around that each and everyday and most of our appliances are AA or better rated and all led bulbs in house no halogens. We dont have immersion heater and shower are fed off boiler and we cook by gas

My energy bill says

Your actual usage in the last 12 months
3,960.1 kWh

There are 3 adults at home and one of us is at home some days but only use computer

macman

Are you sure the immersion heater circuit is not powered up? Light left on it loft? Fishtank? Banks of halogen downlighters in the kitchen?

victor2

As the readings you show from May to October are reasonable, at an average of around 10kWh per day or 3,700kWh per year, the high usage must have been recorded before May.
It is unlikely you will identify the problem now - it could have been caused by something like you unwittingly leaving the immersion heater on for a very long period of time. Really, all you can do now is check your electricity meter regularly, such as weekly, and monitor your usage. If it suddenly goes up dramatically from 10kWh per day then you can start looking for the cause.

techno12

You could also borrow/buy an electricity usage device (the sort that clips onto the meter and wirelessly sends readings to a monitor).

I use the one that NPower sent out a few years ago and find it very useful - I find myself glancing at it often as it's in the corner of my lounge.

My baseline power usage is around 110w. This is stuff like router/fridge-freezer/boiler/alarm clocks/misc things on standby.

When I put the main TV on I see it jump to 250w or so (it used to jump to 350w until I reduced the backlight brightness, which improved the picture also, so a win-win)

matelodave

Our local library will loan an energy monitor for a couple of weeks for free or you can get one of your own - they can be quite revealing. A quick glance before you go out or go to bed can show you when stuff has been inadvertently left on


Have a shufti at this http://www.energyhive.com/dashboard/dave - it's our energy consumption being recorded. Around 250w overnight increasing in the morning when the heating kicks in with peaks when the kettle goes on

martinsurrey

Lube wrote: »

10 units a day isnt that bad not high but not low either we consume around that each and everyday and most of our appliances are AA or better rated and all led bulbs in house no halogens. We dont have immersion heater and shower are fed off boiler and we cook by gas

My energy bill says

Your actual usage in the last 12 months
3,960.1 kWh

There are 3 adults at home and one of us is at home some days but only use computer

really??

all you use power for is lights, computers, TV's, fridge/freezer, washing machines, and dishwashers.

with 3 adults each in a different room (so 3 lots of LED lights) for 6 hours a day, each watching a separate TV, each with a laptop on, that's around 2.94 KWH a day (I guess this is an over estimate).

2 fridge freezers is about 1.6, so thats 4.6KWH, so that leaves 5.4 KWH for the remainder, which is about 5 loads of washing a day at 40 degrees... seems to be something missing.

as a comparison, me and the wife cook on electric, but gas for heating and LED throughout, and we are at about 1900 units a year (and a lot of that is the hob).