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  • Brie
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    On average you were using less then our place during that period.  Granted we were here and had the heat on.
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  • jimjames
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    Evan3020 said:
    You only used about £665 in gas between Nov and Feb according to your own readings?
    29773-28924 x 11.2 x 7p = £665?
    Good point. So what are SP basing their £700 on?
    Remember the saying: if it looks too good to be true it almost certainly is.
  • pochase
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    Evan3020 said:
    You only used about £665 in gas between Nov and Feb according to your own readings?
    29773-28924 x 11.2 x 7p = £665?
    I think you are working with April figures here. It should be more like 4p, not 7p.
  • Evan3020
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    Then its only £380 between Nov and Feb?
  • pochase
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    edited 28 July 2022 at 4:56PM
    I would say so.

    OP can you please upload copies of your energy bills after removing everything that can identify you?

    Meter is m3, so a potential problem could be if ft3 is billed.
  • sammies3
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    MWT said:
    sammies3 said:
    ok so according to SP we used £700 for 1 week in Jan....
    Based on actual meter readings, or estimates?
    Unless it is actual meter readings then you don't really know what period it covered...
    They asked for a reading in Feb 22, when I contacted them about the high bill they went through it all and said that1 week in Jan it shot up, causing the £700 bill just for the gas

  • Evan3020
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    How can they know it went up £700 in one week in Jan when your own figures show you only spent £400 between Nov and Feb?
    28924 - 29773 Nov Feb?
  • pochase
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    What is the formula they are using to calculate the KWh for gas?
  • MWT
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    pochase said:
    What is the formula they are using to calculate the KWh for gas?
    Certainly worth checking that they are not treating a metric meter as Imperial...

  • theoretica
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    sammies3 said:
    MWT said:
    sammies3 said:
    ok so according to SP we used £700 for 1 week in Jan....
    Based on actual meter readings, or estimates?
    Unless it is actual meter readings then you don't really know what period it covered...
    They asked for a reading in Feb 22, when I contacted them about the high bill they went through it all and said that1 week in Jan it shot up, causing the £700 bill just for the gas


    If it isn't a smart meter, and you didn't provide weekly reading how could they say that?  Unless they mean they applied the charges for gas used over a longer period?
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