High electric bills

valerian

valerian

valerian

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can anyone shed light on this
prior to aug2007 we paid £80 month to npower
from aug 2007 in a different house with the same appliances it has gone up to £130 a month ????, surely the price has not risen that much
any suggestions welcome, except daft ones!
 
Have you checked you not paying an estimated reading rather than a real one, compared it to the meter/re (?) ??
 
Hmm... I too seem to have seen a sharp increase in quarterly electric bills...

I used to pay on average around £150 per quarter, seems to have now increased to nearly £200 for what I can only work out as the same units being consumed.

However, if you take into account a 15% increase, which is about average for all the major suppliers, I should be looking at £175 ish..?? So, quite where the additional £25 for me is being used - well I dunno..

I'm doing all I can to now save electric, saving bulbs, turning stuff off from standby, but honestly, its hard to know where the additional is going...

Thought it was just me, but speaking with family, they've all reported much higher then 15% increases..!! You do need to keep an eye on the bill though for the 'dreaded' E meaning estimate..
 
dafloppyone said:
dont any of you have meter card systems?, you pay x amount of power gas to be put on the keys and then you insert at home ?
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Does anyone have those? :eek:

Change to energy saving bulbs, check you're appliances aren't left on standby, and time your heating to come on when you're actually home.
 
EVH said:
Does anyone have those? :eek:
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WE do works out better as you know you dont owe anything but then again you get caught unaware and then have to drive to the shops (closest is 7 miles walking) plus it costs slightly more per unit
 
For the unannounced/suprise factor I'd rather the quarterly bills.
 
I was with npower and after the 15% increase they want my monthly bill to go from £50 a month to £116

now I know that I was using more that £50 each month and was happy to up it a bit but £116 :eek: have changed to swalec but I am not sure they are much better.
 
Having done both tokens and traditional metered quarterlies, I'd take the traditional method any day of the week.

It's no fun keeping one eye on a ticking-down counter knowing that there's still a week til pay day, and the other eye on the only shop that sells tokens before it shuts.

Surprised no-one's mentioned checking USwitch to see if you can get a better deal. I switched from NPower/BG to Atlantic and have saved a not-inconsiderable annual sum :)
 
i have one of those prepayment meter jobs, i hate it. paying 11.3pence per kWh was bad enough but now they just hiked it to 13.6, my parents pay half that on a proper meter.
and i get through about £8 - £10 a week depending on how much i game and do laundry. when i start my training course next week it should drop as i wont be using my computer all day every day.
 
DragonHunter said:
i have one of those prepayment meter jobs, i hate it. paying 11.3pence per kWh was bad enough but now they just hiked it to 13.6, my parents pay half that on a proper meter.
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No way mate, at best you parents would pay 8p per kwh plus with a standard one you norm have to pay a higher ammount for the first 800/1000 kwh
 
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