EDF Electricity Bills seem very high!

rosienoo

I'm not sure how to explain this. I'm on a smart meter which is clearly metric, but my bills seem excessively high so I'm wondering if I'm actually being charged for imperial units instead?  We are currently living in a 1 bedroom single storey annex, just me and my husband but seem to be being charged for that of a 4/5 bedroom house. The annex used to have a very old imperial meter, so I'm wondering if our bills are having the ?? 2.832 multiplier added ?? I've looked to see the average a 1 bedroom 2 person property would normally use which seems to be approx. £650 per years worth of Electricity.  We are being charged for £2,700 per year.  Our bills are not estimated and the smart meter readings are the same as the bills.   We have a dryer, which we rarely use, an oven we have been rarely using, we've switched all the radiators off at the beginning of April and switched to a whistling kettle for the hob (bottled gas). How do I work out whether we are still being calculated on an old imperial calculation?  Any help appreciated.  Thanks

MeteredOut

What does your bills say you are being billed?

Please provide the kWh usage from your bill and the meter readings - telling us £ values means little.

Robin9

Can you confirm that you are all electric (except for a bit of bottled gas)

I think you are confusing gas and electricity meters -  gas have a conversation factor to get kWh, electricity is as you read on the meter.

£650 for electric may be correct in a property that has gas for heating - but I think you are all electric and that's a different game and £2700 a year may be quite possible depending on your type of electric heating.

Have you old type storage heaters or a very slim panel heater or water filled rads and are you on E7 or single rate ?

BarelySentientAI

Metric and imperial are only used for gas.

Looking at an average electricity bill will not be helping you.

RelievedSheff

If you are using electric panel heaters or blow heaters to heat the property then there is every possibility that you are using that amount of electric. It is more expensive to heat a house with electric rather than gas. (unless you have heat pumps)

Can you give us your annual usage in kWh?

Talking in pounds and pence doesn't help as we do not know how much you are being charged per kWh.

Scot_39

As above there is no conversion factor for an electricity meter.

As you say bottled gas for hob assuming your not on mains gas.

Their have been posts of users in 1 bed flats consuming upto £400 pm in winter months - electric is often at least double gas - but could be far worse on a poor heater / tariff combination.

£2700-c£220 ave SC at current average SR of 24.5p/ kWh equates to roughly 10,000kWh pa.

That's a lot - but not unbelievably so - I use just sub Ofgem median electric profile class 2 now its dropped ftom 4200 to 3900kWh but heat to min temps like 17lr/ 15 rest.  To heat to 21/18 on a cold winters day would likely cost 45% more according to Dimplex heater rating calcs.
And my neighbours - 2 occupants rather than 1 - either side use closer to 8000kWh - in modern 2 bed terraces.

It all comes down to how hot you keep home, how well insulated and the heater types and tariff.  Some flats need little heat - e.g. if not ground or top floor and good sun exposure.

Storage heaters and hw immersion tank which feeds shower, charged / het on a good E7 off peak rate often tge cheapest.  If exclude ashp type tech , as arguably generally not suitable for many flats.

So need to know more 

Tariff / meter type
Hw heating - full sized immersion or on demand / mini tank
Shower - cold fed electric or from immersion tank
Radiators - do you mean night storage or live fed on demand panels or electric boiler wet ?
Actual kWh consumption annually you say £2700, but typical with and without heaters and if dual rate on and off peak consumption over recent months may be more informative
How hot do you keep the rooms in deg C.

Robin9

A little concerned about your use of bottled gas just so you can boil a kettle.   Others may like to comment but electric may be cheaper. Bottled gas will also produce water vapour resulting in  damp..

Is the bottled gas connected to a gas cooker or to a ring ?