4 electric Meters = 4 standing charges = HELP!!

rsbarrington

One property ( couple of old cottages and shop knocked together ) means we have 4 electric meters & 4 standing charges - apart from massive cost to rewire mains any suggestions on approach to SSE please????

molerat

Rewiring of some sort is the only option.  You likely have 4 supplies with 4 meters and 4 fuseboxes supplying different parts of the property. Moving fusebox feeds to another meter could be a way of removing meters but will have to be at your cost and the supply capable of carrying the extra load.

pochase

Welcome to the forum.

This has been discussed recently for somebody who had a second meter for his garage.

If you have four independent meters that supply different buildings you will need to pay 4 standing charges or rewire so that you only need meter.

As SSE will need to pay the standing charge per meter themselves for example for the SOLR process and green levies I don't think there is anything to convince them to pay it for you.

Astria

If you are considering rewiring I would wait until next year because as it stands at the moment, you could be eligible for 4x£400.

MWT

Astria said:

If you are considering rewiring I would wait until next year because as it stands at the moment, you could be eligible for 4x£400.

Only if they are also on 4 separate accounts...

pochase

Can you move the meters to different suppliers to get the £400 for each? Or can you only move the complete account?

I mean if that are cottages different people might move into each of them.

Xbigman

Surely its just a case of an electrician running a cable between the 4 meters and not a complete rewire? Once three of the meters are doing nothing you can have them removed. I would have thought £500 to £600 would be about right. The saved standing charges will almost pay for it in a year. At least get a quote and see where you stand.


Darren

MWT

Xbigman said:

Surely its just a case of an electrician running a cable between the 4 meters and not a complete rewire? Once three of the meters are doing nothing you can have them removed. I would have thought £500 to £600 would be about right. The saved standing charges will almost pay for it in a year. At least get a quote and see where you stand.

Earthing is often an issue, and hopefully these days, you'd struggle to find an electrician willing to do this without bringing the rest of the building up to code and that is not likely to be cheap.

QrizB

rsbarrington said:

One property ( couple of old cottages and shop knocked together ) means we have 4 electric meters & 4 standing charges - apart from massive cost to rewire mains any suggestions on approach to SSE please????

Rewire and do it properly.

(Whoever did the conversion should've dealt with this, which makes me wonder if they were a cowboy and a rewire will be best all around.)