Why is the energy club cost estimate so inaccurate?

Patr100

I'm a relatively low gas user on Ebico zero.
I enter the Kwh annual count from last 12 months provided by ebico which is 2963. Ebico estimate I pay about £149 a year, which is about right.
Yet the energy club on the same Kwh figure says I am currently paying £422 a year!

If this is so inaccurate to start with , how can it get comparisons right?

Xbigman

Are you sure the tariff you've selected is correct. IE not the prepay tariff?



Darren

Flt._Lt._Biggles

Patr100 wrote: »

I'm a relatively low gas user on Ebico zero.
I enter the Kwh annual count from last 12 months provided by ebico which is 2963. Ebico estimate I pay about £149 a year, which is about right.
Yet the energy club on the same Kwh figure says I am currently paying £422 a year!

If this is so inaccurate to start with , how can it get comparisons right?

Usually it's as a result of GIGO

My guess is that you are hoping to compare the price of gas tariffs, but have input the figures for electricity.

:doh:

Patr100

Nope, none of the above. All the tariffs inputs etc are correct . My pure kwh count for electricity is actually lower than that for gas so accidentally inputting that would not have given a bigger figure. What confused me is that when summarising the figures , it lists a cumulative annual/monthly figure for both gas and electricity even if you are not a dual fuel with the same supplier but with two different suppliers.
Would have been helpful to split them in the summary page as tariffs end at different points.

Flt._Lt._Biggles

Patr100 wrote: »

Nope, none of the above. All the tariffs inputs etc are correct . My pure kwh count for electricity is actually lower than that for gas so accidentally inputting that would not have given a bigger figure. What confused me is that when summarising the figures , it lists a cumulative annual/monthly figure for both gas and electricity even if you are not a dual fuel with the same supplier but with two different suppliers.
Would have been helpful to split them in the summary page as tariffs end at different points.

Any more clues (like telling us the exact data you have input; postcode, usage data for each fuel, etc), or are we expected to keep guessing? :cool:

Not sure what you mean by "tariffs end at different points" :huh:
Ebico Zero is a never-ending tariff.

Pretty sure you only get one DD collection per month on Ebico Zero too, so not sure why you want the costs split.

But if you click on 'feedback & info', that will give you the individual annual cost of each fuel (for the tariff you have selected)
Divide by 12 for the estimated monthly collection amount.

Patr100

Flt._Lt._Biggles wrote: »

Any more clues (like telling us the exact data you have input; postcode, usage data for each fuel, etc), or are we expected to keep guessing? :cool:

Not sure what you mean by "tariffs end at different points" :huh:
Ebico Zero is a never-ending tariff.

Pretty sure you only get one DD collection per month on Ebico Zero too, so not sure why you want the costs split.

But if you click on 'feedback & info', that will give you the individual annual cost of each fuel (for the tariff you have selected)
Divide by 12 for the estimated monthly collection amount.

I just already answered my own question. Read my answer again.
This the cumulative figure but AS I SAID includes both electricity and Gas from two different suppliers, hence the confusion.

Flt._Lt._Biggles

Well done, I don't think anyone would have come up with that explanation without you explaining it to us :T

I know I would certainly not have come up with that explanation as it displays differently on my computer



I've used different consumption figures (and probably a different supply region) so the costs are different, but the format is what I refer to.

If you only want to compare gas tariffs, you can select this within the CEC, and you will only be shown your cost for gas.