Electricity Sky High???

[evedawn]

Ok so someone pleaaaaaaaase tell my maths is wrong.

We appear to be using 200 units of electricity per day (we don't have any gas supply so all heating showed etc are electric)

My rate per unit is 0.92


Does this REALLY = £20 per day!!!!!!

[factor-fiction]

I doubt very much it's going to be £20 a day! 92p a unit seems wrong.

[Tilly2]

Are you reading your meter or is this on your bill?

[factor-fiction]

Surely it's 9.2 p a unit

[evedawn]

Yes it's just less than 10p (9.2p) can some one pleas do the math

[Tilly2]

well, that's £18.40. Are you sure you're using 200 units a day? How do you know?

[whiskeryron]

9.2 X 20 = £1.84

WR.

[Old_Geezer]

0.92 in pounds or pence is not 9.2p

If your units are consistent and you have quoted the right figures then 200 x 0.092 = £18.4.

I think you have something wrong.

[evedawn]

It's a property we just moved to and I'm going by the metre reading taken myself. When I signed up with energy supplier (they know we only have electric no gas) they estimated £49 a month so I worry about how much extra it will he

[Old_Geezer]

Well your figures suggest a quarterly bill of £1,679.

Check your units.

[evedawn]

When I read the digits on the metre I'm guessing each digit is a unit eg 00987 = 987 units?

[Tilly2]

£49.00 would equate to something like 17 units a day, I think. Maybe you are not reading the meter correctly. Is it a digital meter or a dial meter?

[evedawn]

It's a digital meter

[factor-fiction]

Lat year I used 20 units a day on average (probably 25 in Winter, less in summer), so i think yours will be 20 units @9.2p = £1.84 a day.
That seems on the low side to me so I think there will be a fixed daily charge on top. My supplier charges 60p a day standing charge.

[evedawn]

Yeah I
Just can't see how it is 200 (approx) per day but that is what the reading is telling me when checking between yesterday and today!

[Old_Geezer]

I don't have a bill in front of me to check but I was just wondering if the meter was, say, kWh and the bill in some other standard unit ?

[evedawn]

Yes I wondered that old geyser but is one Kw = 1 unit

[factor-fiction]

It can't be 200 units in a day.
But one day may not be representative anyway. If you deduct the original reading from when you moved in from the current reading and divide the result by the number of days since you move din you'll get a better picture

[Old_Geezer]

Then I can only suspect you may have missed where a decimal point is. For instance is the meter reading per day not 20.0 ?

[Tilly2]

evedawn,we have a digital meter and I've just been outside (in my dressing gown, flippin freezin') to check it for you. You need to ignore the last two digits.
When I've got dressed I will go and have a proper look but I do know that it has a decimal point before the last two digits and you need to read only the first , I think it's five numbers.
I'll get back to you in a few minutes. It's time I got dressed anyway.

[evedawn]

Ahhh Tilly you are kind to do that in the cold . Thanks!!! I've checked ours though and I simply don't see a decimal ??? X