Electric usage and cost advice?

gazapc

macman said:

gazapc said:

macman said:

A DD of £470pm tells us that he's probably heavily in debt on his current DD, as, even under the October cap, his DD should not be that high. It's being set to recover debt, unless there is a reading error.

How did you figure that out? At the 55 or 60p rates being thrown around in the other thread for fixes, 10,000 x 0.55 = £5,500 = £460/month. So plausible if a standard rate tariff.

Obviously a different answer if they have correctly used night heaters.


OP, the method of heating via electricity has been and still is very expensive. You can fiddle around the edges with LED bulbs, appliances etc... but the heating will be the big draw. The amount used is very believable.

My suggestion would be, to as quickly as practical identify any measures to improve the insulation of the building. Then you need to optimise usage without leaving them in the cold e.g. don't heat unused rooms.

Since there are 3 rates and presumably 2 meters, it is not a single rate tariff. It's E10 or an equivalent system. Which is why I asked the OP for the name of the tariff.
He's about to transition onto a new tariff and has already been quoted £470. The price cap figure doesn't arrive until end of August.

Ah yes, my mistake for not reading properly.

Hopefully the OP can get a better rate than the fix Octopus recently offered on economy7 which was a 72p day rate, 50p night rate.

macman

There are no options on E10, as only the legacy supplier will support it. You go with whatever they offer, or re-meter.