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How much do you pay for electric on smart meter

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  • HedgehogRulez
    HedgehogRulez Posts: 303 Forumite
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    We pay £50 a month if that’s of help? 🤷‍♂️
  • QrizB
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    1993j said:
    I'm am currently with utility warehouse for my gas and electric on a smart meter on pay as you go. I'm currently paying around £130-140 monthly on my electric, I'm not using anything excessive either. Is this high? What do you pay? We are in a 3 bed house and there is 2 of us 
    Putting aside all the discussion of tariffs and costs, £130-140 a month - £1600 a year - is somewhat above what id expect 2 people in a 3-bed house to be spending.
    The standing charge is £200 a year, so it sounds like you're spending £1400 a year on electricity - which is about 5400 kWh.
    The national average dual-fuel household only uses 2700 kWh/yr, so you're using double that.
    You need to look closely at where it's all going.
    N. Hampshire, he/him. Octopus Intelligent Go elec & Tracker gas / Vodafone BB / iD mobile. Ripple Kirk Hill Coop member.
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  • QrizB
    QrizB Posts: 20,377 Forumite
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    I note that the OP hasn't commented on this thread yet, so we might never learn more about their electricity use or whether they've been able to reduce it.
    N. Hampshire, he/him. Octopus Intelligent Go elec & Tracker gas / Vodafone BB / iD mobile. Ripple Kirk Hill Coop member.
    2.72kWp PV facing SSW installed Jan 2012. 11 x 247w panels, 3.6kw inverter. 34 MWh generated, long-term average 2.6 Os.
    Ofgem cap table, Ofgem cap explainer. Economy 7 cap explainer. Gas vs E7 vs peak elec heating costs, Best kettle!
  • hareng
    hareng Posts: 622 Forumite
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    QrizB said:
    I note that the OP hasn't commented on this thread yet, so we might never learn more about their electricity use or whether they've been able to reduce it.

    Correct, probably another sucked in by Utility Warehouse doctoring the figures or taking average usage of area (meaningless) to their favour, they all do it.
    Such a shame how these companies work in £ rather than actual usage, some you cannot input actual usage or make it almost impossible to do so.
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