My Energy use Diary

annie123

Thanks CW, Will stop looking for something that doesn't exist, and do the same as you do then

setmefree2

nykmedia wrote: »

That means my weekly average has dipped below the magical £20! I've made it to £19.86

Top banana

cw18

Just logged into my G&E account to check they've changed my tariff (following my call to them yesterday), and it appears they've also dropped my Direct Debit AGAIN! So last month was £60, this month (taken yesterday) was £53, and from next month it's £47 !!!!!



EDIT: Just checked my account for the last year.
After they took my payment on 01/09/2008 I was £159.88 in credit.
I then made 3 payment of £72.50
Then there was a small payment of £1.74 (help towards cost of running an oxygen machine we had for DH)
Then I made 8 payments of £60
So total payments of £699.24
On 31/08/2009 (ie. just before my 1st Sept payment) I was £150.58 in credit

So my actual bills for the last year total £708.54

So payments to 31/08/2010 should now be (1*53)+(11*47)=£570
Which means that (if my bills stay exactly the same) I'll end up just £12.04 in credit on that date - and then see a huge increase to £59/month just as my income crashes again in September 2010 :eek:

A_fiend_for_life

B and B no change really.

No heating yet but I'm sure it's not far away. I'm hoping for an Indian Summer.

Frugaldom

Hi Leccie meter watchers

Here's this week's imeasure report, not looking good on the 'badge' ftont with an E and an F but am pst worrying as it's impossible to do much about it when comparing with only 2 others and not knowing if they have central heating.

Your household's total energy spend over the last 39 weeks is £704.52 (+ standing chages).

For week ending 6th September, 2009 your household spent £10.79 in total.
Electricity A Rate: £8.63
Electricity B Rate: £2.16
Electricity C Rate: £0.00

Average is still dipping, now at £19.67 per week when I add on the £1.61 standing charge. If I can do without the heating for a few weeks longer then that should help reduce it further but I don't think it's very fair of Scottish Power NOT to reflect and reductions on our prices because we are on a prepayment meter. What's everyone else paying per kWh daytime at the moment? I'm still on 12.88p

A_fiend_for_life

Hi Nyk.

I'm on single meter - 13.06p exc vat, 13.72p inc vat with ebico (no standing charge).


I was checking this out yesterday to see how SP standard prepayment compares with online and quarterly billing. Average consumption prepayment dual fuel was around £1300 per annum where as the cheapest online tariff was around £950. :eek:

For my consumption if I went over to SP prepayment I would be paying 25% more for dual fuel.

I'm a little baffled with this as the only social tariffs - Age Concern and Age Concern Two (no reflection on my age) - are 50% higher than Ebico for my consumption. No other tariffs are overtly 'social' tariffs for prepayment meters. Er - no reflection on yourself.

Frugaldom

FFL - I was wondering if it would be cheaper to have the prepayment meter replaced by a standard meter, assuming that I could get the landlord to agree to this, but SP reckon we are on the best deal. Is your 13.72p per unit the same cost per unit all day & night? I'll work out what my average unit costs overall and see how it compares.

A_fiend_for_life

Yes, same price day and night single meter - sorry long post.

ETA Note Ebico's prices include the standing charge so the tariff price is what you pay.

What prices are you getting for an estimated annual consumption?

setmefree2

A_fiend_for_life wrote: »

I'm hoping for an Indian Summer.

Me too Warm here in London but very grey:o

Frugaldom

Thanks for the figures, I appreciated your post.

I've just calculated the figures on imeasure against my actual figures using the meter. Because it was a brand new meter when we moved in here, all the figures on it relate to our useage, so it was pretty straight forward. I can now confirm that for our purposes - 2 adults working fulltime from home relying on electric storage heaters during winter - our overall average unit cost works out at 9p per kWh because it's split between standard daytime rate (12.88p), night rate (5.84p) and storage heater rate (5.14p). I could reduce that greatly by living a nightshift lifestyle but that's no good where livestock is concerned. Maybe I should get up even earlier and do all the batch cooking, jam making and breadmaking etc before dawn? :eek::rotfl:For now, however, I'll just count myself lucky that I do have that option if things should ever get that tight financially.