Comparison of electricity cost

Mstty

@Effician

Yep what Effician said. 

Have you got your 1st April rates for day and night rate @Rhion

Robin9

@Rhion  Can you have a look at the actual meter please (the one in an outdoor meter box or in the garage - not the IHD toy in the kitchen). There should be a label on it giving an installation date and initial readings (Probably 00000.0)


Apart from the 31st March have you been reading your meters monthly ?

As Smart meters are generally no more than 8/9 years old the consumption is suggesting day use of over 5500 and night of over 10000 (which ties in with @Mstty -  day particularly is well above average

Rhion

Hi @Mstty

Thanks for the feedback from you and all. 

Here is a March statement from 2021 and would be grateful if you could confirm on this! 

Cheers

Rhion

Robin9

10800 at 22p for the day is £2400 ; 6700 for the night is £1200   plus VAT s o yes over £300 a month.

#WOW to your daytime usage !


A lot of estimated readings - start giving them monthly 

pochase

I get even to over 400£ per month at the new rates from April.

10814KWh day and 6721KWh night for 399days (25/2/21 to 31/3/22 actual reads).

If I use the rate for my region of 38p day and 19.52p night plus 138 standing charge it would be 5560£ for a bit more than 13 months or 418£ per month.

For the last 13 months it was already over 225£ per month in average (calculated half at 8.33p/17.8p and half  12.88p/22.5p plus 5% VAT).

So yes the 380£ per month might even be a bit to low for the direct debit, but no the 380£ energy use is not normal bit very high.

You need urgently to find out for what you use this much electricity. The increase in October might see you well over 500£ pm, maybe even near to 600£ if we are unlucky.

Mstty

@Rhion the calculations are above from @pochase so yes £380 is perfectly reasonable you really need to look at why you are using so much energy in the daytime.

As you have an economy 7 rate what are you currently using on the night time rate as you should try and cram as much usage in that period as possible.

What heating have you got?

wild666

Try turning everything off that is not been used, I did that in my flat after Avro went under and reduced my electric from 2200 to 1400 kWh and the gas from 1750 to 900 kWh. There is only three items that stay on 24/7 and they are the fridge, freezer and router everything else is off at the socket if not in use.

Gerry1

Try some basics to make sure there's not an error somewhere.  Post some photos of the meter (preferably with bar codes and meter number redacted).  Do the Meter Sanity Test, look at the meter and see when it changes rate (watch out for a 'split shift' where there are two hours at day rate overnight), and make sure the day register is the one that increments at noon.