Average Electricity Costs Poll

*Louise* · 12 July 2006 at 2:35AM

azka wrote:

I live in a 4 bedroom house 3 kids 2 adults. my average monthly electricity bill is about £18 and gas is £27.

How the heck do you manage that???

*Louise* · 12 July 2006 at 2:38AM

I don't know what these companies are up to...I was comparing my bill with my mum's....mine was £170 for 3 months...hers was £100 for 4 months

We are both with the same supplier...she has 2-bed house, I have 2-bed flat.

Also, there was a few times in feb/March when I visited and she had her heating cranked up to 25C!!!!:eek:

I must be doing something wrong...but I can't for the life of me figure what.

bonnie_2 · 20 July 2006 at 2:54PM

my gas has just gone up to £71.50 a month from £39 a month in 2003 my usage hasn't changed at all. my electric is £35 a month total £106.50 a month on power, time to go back to the dark ages i think.

oldwiring · 20 July 2006 at 6:04PM

*Louise* wrote:

I don't know what these companies are up to...I was comparing my bill with my mum's....mine was £170 for 3 months...hers was £100 for 4 months

We are both with the same supplier...she has 2-bed house, I have 2-bed flat.

Also, there was a few times in feb/March when I visited and she had her heating cranked up to 25C!!!!:eek:

I must be doing something wrong...but I can't for the life of me figure what.

Rather than compare the amount paid which could be based on estiamtes with adjustments for previous years' under/voerpayments, and therefore not an accurate measure, I think you should compare actual readings. You'll then know how your usage compares. Another thing is insulation, whehter your flat is as well insulated as mum's house. If mum's is insulated to more modern stnadafs than yours that could also make a difference. I'd suggest.

newg_2 · 13 August 2006 at 11:11PM

oldwiring wrote:

Rather than compare the amount paid which could be based on estiamtes with adjustments for previous years' under/voerpayments, and therefore not an accurate measure, I think you should compare actual readings. You'll then know how your usage compares. Another thing is insulation, whehter your flat is as well insulated as mum's house. If mum's is insulated to more modern stnadafs than yours that could also make a difference. I'd suggest.

until now i had not realised how stupid we have been. We live in a two bed house and we have been paying way too much from what i can tell, we have storage heating which during the winter was not used that often, i thought our bills where so high becouse we have a tumber dryer two computers and two laptops. We pay £280 a month. £3360 a year. im calling the electricity comp tom!!

Donegal_Paul · 14 August 2006 at 4:02PM

Well today the wifes been stung by Powergen for £403!!!

Looking online at my bill we still owe 1200 quid!!

Last year we were paying £25 a month, I put it up to £50 a month to clear a backlog they said we owed, but now, im left with a 1200 quid bill after this 400 has gone out which we cant afford!

Heres a cut and paste from Powergen, its in reverse order.

Date Charge Balance
30 Jun 2006 251.42 1695.65
24 Mar 2006 661.53 1594.23
22 Dec 2005 379.33 1082.70
20 Sep 2005 108.11 853.37
25 Jun 2005 490.18 895.26
30 Mar 2005 191.87 483.08
20 Dec 2004 232.04 369.21

This is a 3 bed house with usual white goods, electric cooking, computer and laptop. No tumble dryer.
Heatings gas.

Anyone think this is too much?

Im going to start a different thread elsewhere re the fact they have not told us they were going to take out 400 quid instead of the 50!!!

EagerLearner · 14 August 2006 at 4:08PM

rubix_76 wrote:

I lived in a flat with some friends, and shortly after I left (It wasn't my fault honest :A ) they had some problems with their economy 7.

Everything in the flat was Elec, and to cut a long story short the timer that switched to the lower rate to heat their night storage heaters wasn't working so they were being charged FULL-WACK for their elec, the guy KEPT calling their provider and it took them ages to sort it out and get some money back.

Rubix

I had the same - paid Seeboard £33 a month for ages for Economy 7 heating, then suddely they wanted £850 (one-off bill) - after months of calls and a complaint to Energywatch, bill was reduced to £350 Including the latest bill. Result for the consumer, for once :T ! If we'd been a little old lady, she'd have had no choice but to pay the big corporate!

Donegal_Paul · 14 August 2006 at 4:18PM

Just had a look at http://www.aepuk.com/need_info.php#3 and am gobsmacked to see

"The average person in the UK uses 1,930 'units' or kilowatt hours (kWh) of electricity per year. The average household uses 4,478 units of electricity. "

so, 4,478 units a year? OK, lets say im above average, (2 kids, 3 bedrooms etc) even rounding it up to say 6000 a year?

If thats the case how can Powergen be saying i used 8858 units in the quarter ending 22 march 2006!!

I just dont understand this!

EagerLearner · 14 August 2006 at 4:30PM

Donegal_Paul - see my post above - they DEFINATELY make mistakes - it's up to YOU to force them to explain themselves or re-calculate their costs. My £850 shocker bill was estimated (they had not corrected our fault meter despite numerous calls). We called and called. Finally, someone suggested we run through a checklist of what we used (this is how they calculate estimates). For the record we had Economy 7 heating, using the following electrical items:

- Washing machine
- Bath / shower
- Kettle
- Oven
- Lighting
- TV
- Computer

They had us down for much more -just a few of which like the following were ticked on their screen:

- Dryer!
- Microwave!
- Dish Washer!

These added loads to our estimated bill, but we then complained to Energywatch, once they'd looked into it Seeboard 'reviewed' their figures!

Donegal_Paul · 14 August 2006 at 6:44PM

you'll never guess what!!!!!

The prat thats been reading the metre since 2004 has been reading the economy 7 and the normal numbers the wrong way round!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So, instead of being behind 1600 quid, we are only in arrears 130ish!!

PHEW!

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