EON are charging me £90 a month for electricity, that seems insanely high to me?

niktheguru

MrH86 said:

Robin9 said:

Tell us about your gas heating please.  I presume a gas boiler in the kitchen - but what rooms do you have and have they radiators. Are those radiators turned on ?

Gas boiler in the kitchen. Radiators in front room and 2 of the bedrooms. I generally run very warm so I almost never use central heating, I've used it once in the past 6 months I'd estimate. My gas bill is always tiny and I'm happy with it, it's just the electricity that's destroying me.

As others have said, the electricity bill is destroying you because you aren’t using any gas!! Start using your central heating on a timer, bin the electricity meter and take meter readings regularly. all you need to do to check this is to take the meter reading from you IHD (the first picture you attached in this thread which has the meter reading on it) just for this week take a meter reading every day. Subtract the smaller number from the larger number (for both rates) and then calculate how much you’re spending. That way you’ll know what is the true cost of your electricity use.

MrH86

niktheguru said:

MrH86 said:

Robin9 said:

Tell us about your gas heating please.  I presume a gas boiler in the kitchen - but what rooms do you have and have they radiators. Are those radiators turned on ?

Gas boiler in the kitchen. Radiators in front room and 2 of the bedrooms. I generally run very warm so I almost never use central heating, I've used it once in the past 6 months I'd estimate. My gas bill is always tiny and I'm happy with it, it's just the electricity that's destroying me.

As others have said, the electricity bill is destroying you because you aren’t using any gas!! Start using your central heating on a timer, bin the electricity meter and take meter readings regularly. all you need to do to check this is to take the meter reading from you IHD (the first picture you attached in this thread which has the meter reading on it) just for this week take a meter reading every day. Subtract the smaller number from the larger number (for both rates) and then calculate how much you’re spending. That way you’ll know what is the true cost of your electricity use.

Yeah I'll just put the central heating on 1, the electric heater is already in storage lol, crazy to think how much that was costing me, I never thought it would be that much. 

macman

Good. Now, as a priority, get yourself off E7, it's really no use if you have gas CH and DHW. Unless you are nocturnal, you are using almost all your leccy at the peak rate price: about 500% more than using gas.  Which is why adding your 2kW electric heater into the mix made the bills so high. 
The uncompetitive tariff doesn't help, but it's the minor part of your misfortune. 

MrH86

macman said:

Good. Now, as a priority, get yourself off E7, it's really no use if you have gas CH and DHW. Unless you are nocturnal, you are using almost all your leccy at the peak rate price: about 500% more than using gas.  Which is why adding your 2kW electric heater into the mix made the bills so high. 
The uncompetitive tariff doesn't help, but it's the minor part of your misfortune. 

Funnily enough, I actually am. I sleep throughout the day and I'm up at night into the early AM.

MrH86

I did live chat with customer support who basically told me to run the online quote and said bye, so not super useful. The best option they have isn't that much cheaper than what I pay now, it just seems it's more of a direct debit saving.

Unit rate Normal 17.165p per kWh

Standing charge 24.501p per day
It's still quoting me £88 a month, but I'm guessing that's because of the heater, as I won't be using it going forward I assume the actual bill will be cheaper? It does say variable price on the tariff.
The cheapest I can find are Bulb, I've never heard of them though, are they reliable?
Unit rate 16.011p per kWh
Standing charge 20.87p per day
EDIT: I've read some horror stories about Bulb, so don't really want to go with them.

niktheguru

Have you actually used a comparison tool or are you looking on random utility suppliers websites. There is NO WAY bulb is the only cheapest supplier for you. There will be a fair few suppliers cheaper than bulb.

Have you tried https://energycompare.citizensadvice.org.uk/
Remember when using these, try a search first saying you have an economy 7 meter. (to give econ 7 rates) and then saying you don't have one (to give a flat rate tariff) and see what is cheaper.

MrH86

niktheguru said:

Have you actually used a comparison tool or are you looking on random utility suppliers websites. There is NO WAY bulb is the only cheapest supplier for you. There will be a fair few suppliers cheaper than bulb.

Have you tried https://energycompare.citizensadvice.org.uk/
Remember when using these, try a search first saying you have an economy 7 meter. (to give econ 7 rates) and then saying you don't have one (to give a flat rate tariff) and see what is cheaper.

Using that site the only one cheaper than Bulb is Nabuh Energy whoever they are, and they have awful reviews so I wouldn't go with them.

Robin9

Have you been able to determine your ACTUAL Annual Consumption (electric and gas) figures (in kWh NOT £'s)  from your bills ?   If so what are they please ?

phillw

Robin9 said:

Have you been able to determine your ACTUAL Annual Consumption (electric and gas) figures (in kWh NOT £'s)  from your bills ?   If so what are they please ?

I'm not sure that will help if electric heaters and immersion heaters have been used instead of the gas boiler.
I think you would have to go with "I don't know how much I use", or come up with an estimate.

Robin9

The benefit of using known figures  - even if they are now high (for electric) of low (for gas) is that's an even playing field.  As has been discussed above transferring to gas  will reduce the bills . Over time the DD will fall - providing @MrH86 gives monthly readings that is.