Electricity jump in useage?

bloodline76 · 30 Jul 2009 at 19:56

I just got my electricity bill and some how its jumped from 9.4kwh to 22.4kwh.

How would it more than double for the quater when we havent changed our useage in any way?

What could use that much up so quickly?

Thanks

Ascendancy · 30 Jul 2009 at 19:58

Is someone coming to read your meter? Or is this an estimated reading?

Jez · 30 Jul 2009 at 20:02

9.4kwh to 22.4kwh, huh? That would equate to a bill of around 3 quid :confused:

Destination · 30 Jul 2009 at 20:03

I must be missing something here.
Isn't a kWh a kiloWatthour, more commonly referred to as a unit. Charged for at around £0.16 per unit or so?

How can you be using so few units?

bloodline76 · 30 Jul 2009 at 20:05

Ascendancy said:
Is someone coming to read your meter? Or is this an estimated reading?

Someone read it.

aydin173 · 30 Jul 2009 at 20:11

gremlins

i had this problem a few weeks back, a good chainsaw sourts this out.

Jez · 30 Jul 2009 at 20:23

bloodline76 said:
Someone read it.

Whats the actual usage for the quarter? The above is about 3 quids worth!

bloodline76 · 30 Jul 2009 at 20:40

Jez said:
Whats the actual usage for the quarter? The above is about 3 quids worth!

Thats the hourly rating isnt it?

Jez · 30 Jul 2009 at 20:44

A KWH is a unit which represents the consumption of a 1KW drain for a period of 1 hour. 22.4KWH is nothing...

jak731 · 30 Jul 2009 at 20:45

Is that your average daily/weekly usage or something? You would expect to use around 500kWh a quarter maybe more or less but not 20kWh, unless you've been on holiday for 3 months with almost everything switched off.

malfunkshun · 30 Jul 2009 at 21:24

20?

my last bill was a bit over 1800kwh

bloodline76 · 30 Jul 2009 at 22:59

jak731 said:
Is that your average daily/weekly usage or something? You would expect to use around 500kWh a quarter maybe more or less but not 20kWh, unless you've been on holiday for 3 months with almost everything switched off.

Yes sorry that is daily average over the quarter

( |-| |2 ][ $ · 30 Jul 2009 at 23:06

bloodline76 said:
Yes sorry that is daily average over the quarter

Quite a lot then. Was the reading for the previous bill from an estimate? Perhaps they were estimating short for a while and now it's been corrected?

Jez · 30 Jul 2009 at 23:06

Yeah, sounds like a correction and you probably used somewhere in between for the whole time. They will now bill at the higher amount to offset the underpayment from before

jas72 · 30 Jul 2009 at 23:15

correct. I was happy as I'd used 1000 kwh less this year only to see that the price increases still meant i owed them more

further rant in belgium its taxed at the luxury rate of 21% VAT how they think its a luxury I don't know. They say its because you can now power your home using sun and wind

Hades · 30 Jul 2009 at 23:31

Cannabis farm?

BigglesPiP · 30 Jul 2009 at 23:34

What are the starting meter readings/estimates on both bills?

OllyM · 30 Jul 2009 at 23:52

jas72 said:
correct. I was happy as I'd used 1000 kwh less this year only to see that the price increases still meant i owed them more

further rant in belgium its taxed at the luxury rate of 21% VAT how they think its a luxury I don't know. They say its because you can now power your home using sun and wind

21% VAT

We only pay 5% reduced rate VAT on domestic electricity

bloodline76 · 31 Jul 2009 at 02:19

Jez said:
Yeah, sounds like a correction and you probably used somewhere in between for the whole time. They will now bill at the higher amount to offset the underpayment from before

Ok thanks guys. So hopefully the next one should drop back into place, as I will be making sure they get a reading or i will over pay next time.

Caged · 31 Jul 2009 at 02:51

jas72 said:
correct. I was happy as I'd used 1000 kwh less this year only to see that the price increases still meant i owed them more

further rant in belgium its taxed at the luxury rate of 21% VAT how they think its a luxury I don't know. They say its because you can now power your home using sun and wind

Balls can you power a home from sun and wind. Maybe if you had a few hundred acres to install turbines and panels, and enough cash to buy it all. But then it would still be cheaper to just buy electricity.