Tomato Energy Lifestyle Tariff... Smart Meter related question

QrizB

Steve139 said:

As I mentioned I'm currently with EON and paying 25.76p/kWh Unit Rate and 67.88p/day SC!... for an all electric property the heating costs are killing me!

How is your property heated?

An all-electric property would normally have storage heaters or (if built/modernised recently) a heat pump.

If you've got panel heaters or an "electric combi boiler" then you're stuck with high heating bills.

Steve139

Can someone please send me the Google Play Bright App link... also what is myWatts that I've seen mentioned and what is the Google Play link for that as well please?

QrizB

Bright:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.co.hildebrand.brightionic

Steve139

@QrizB... the block of flats was built in 2012 and the flats have wall mounted electric convector heaters, they are not storage heaters and there is no combi-boiler, just an emersion heater to heat the hot water only. It's my first ever electric property and never again!... stuck with it for the time being until I can sell up... having separate electric wall heater in each room is ridiculous!

Steve139

I think I found this Bright App, it's the one below by Hildebrand Tech?

Newbie_John

Nothing stops you from automating it..

Although as said earlier - investing in storage heaters may work best for you long term - they cost £800 but charge at cheap rate and release it during the day.

QrizB

Steve139 said:

@QrizB... the block of flats was built in 2012 and the flats have wall mounted electric convector heaters, they are not storage heaters and there is no combi-boiler, just an emersion heater to heat the hot water only. It's my first ever electric property and never again!... stuck with it for the time being until I can sell up... having separate electric wall heater in each room is ridiculous!

It's a shame that the builder (or possibly the previous owner) went cheap on the heaters. You'll see a link in my signature that shows how much more expensive single-rate electric convector heaters can be compared to storage heaters.

Steve139

@QrizB... it's the builder Miller homes, all the their properties up here in the NW seem to be built this way, it costs them less to build. I will look into the storage heaters but suspect right night it's not something I can afford to do ie swap all the wall convector heaters with storage heaters, so focusing on switching suppliers for the tie being.

By the way do you use this myWatts thingy and do you have an app link for it?... I found the webpage below but not app itself on google play.



 

QrizB

Steve139 said:

By the way do you use this myWatts thingy and do you have an app link for it?... I found the webpage below but not app itself on google play.

Sorry, I'm with Octopus not Tomato, MyWatts is Tomato's app/website and I can't give any Tomato-specific help.
Hopefully there will be someone else along to assist.

Steve139

QrizB said:

Steve139 said:

By the way do you use this myWatts thingy and do you have an app link for it?... I found the webpage below but not app itself on google play.

Sorry, I'm with Octopus not Tomato, MyWatts is Tomato's app/website and I can't give any Tomato-specific help.
Hopefully there will be someone else along to assist.

Ok no problem, and thanks.