Usage gone up horrendously

QrizB

44081 to 44082 in two hours is probably OK, assuming you've been in the house and using lights / kettle / TV or whatever.

The two photos you've posted, 44074 and 44081, when did you take them?

niktheguru

Why don't you take readings 24hrs apart. Then you can extrapolate for the month and see if your current usage is the same as you've been billed.

Despite submitting regular meter readings have your bills been using those meetings or been using estimates....we've sometimes seen this.

theoretica

It is 44082 now and was 44040 on the 19th - so 42 in 8 days, or the equivalent to 300 in 57 days, compared to 1233 in 57 days on the bill.  So I am looking at the May reading when you changed suppliers, and wondering if that was too low, which would make your use with the old supplier look lower than it is, and your use just after the change of supplier higher than it is.  But overall leave you paying only for electricity you have used. The May reading of 42806.8 clearly has some aspect of calculation/estimate about it as your meter doesn't read to .8  The system does occasionally do really odd things to meter readings on change of supplier.  When and what was the previous actual reading you have on record?

Tracytrace

Yes that’s true it doesn’t have the extra digit , I read it when I changed and it was 42708

Tracytrace

The first reading was Monday evening about 7.30 and the second was Tuesday at 4.40pm

Tracytrace

Just told Eon there’s no extra digit I.e the .8 and they said it doesn’t matter as the reads I gave and the one they have on opening with the .8 are very close , yes but where did they get the .8 ??!?!? Just made it up , I don’t trust them lol never had anything like this in all my life and it’s only started with them 😞 

Gerry1

Tracytrace said:

So in 2 hours it’s gone from 44081 to 44082??? Is this ok?

Yes, it's OK, but it doesn't mean you've used 1kWh: it might have gone from 44081.9 to 44082.0

It's similar to looking at a 4-figure digital clock, it might have shown 12:34 one moment and 12:35 when you looked at it again, but it doesn't mean that a whole minute has elapsed.  The time could have been 12:34:56 when you first looked and 12:35:01 when you looked again.

niktheguru

Has anyone actually seen pictures of the bills and whether these are actual or estimates. I know there is a post in page 1, but this never showed any bill pictures to me. 

I don't see us getting anywhere with this issue without seeing the last 3-4 bills, to work out what is going on.

Reed_Richards

Could it be this issue?  https://www.thesun.ie/news/333159/dodgy-meters-hiked-hundreds-of-irish-homes-electricity-bills/

QrizB

Tracytrace said:

The first reading was Monday evening about 7.30 and the second was Tuesday at 4.40pm

Thank you. 7kWh in just under a day doesn't sound too bad either.

Do you have your last EDF bills still? Can you take a photo of the bit with the meter readings on?