Expensive energy bill

Gerry1

schoolrunmum said:

I am currently paying £230 per month for electricity alone,in a large 5 bed detached.  That is just for power n cooking,heating is oil and Calor gas. Can't believe I'll be paying over £350pm just to keep the.lights on!

Better to start your own thread, otherwise untangling all the different answers soon gets very gets confusing.

There's a big clue in the BIB, and it certainly won't be just for keeping the lights on.  Any electric showers, hot tubs, fish tanks, pond pumps, electric towel rails, underfloor heating, fridges / freezers with dodgy seals etc?

Does the £350 match up with the kWh usage + daily charges from actual meter readings, or is it a catch up bill because the estimated readings were too low?

Aylesbury_Duck

schoolrunmum said:

I am currently paying £230 per month for electricity alone,in a large 5 bed detached.  That is just for power n cooking,heating is oil and Calor gas. Can't believe I'll be paying over £350pm just to keep the.lights on!

The number of occupants is more important than the number of bedrooms, but that's an astonishing amount of electricity consumption, unless you're on a very high standing charge.  My household of four (adults), all working from home, only consumes c.£90 a month on electricity at today's SVR prices and like you, we have alternative fuel source for heating, hot water and cooking.  What are you doing that's costing 2.5 times that?  Even if you're on a more expensive tariff, that's a large difference.