Electricity costs

[Paul_MTS]

It's come to the time when my tanks are getting mounting up on the elecy bills and so am having to start paying some towards them.

When i asked this question on a reptile forum it seemed i was paying OTT.

we're with Powergen (at the moment!)

I'm just wondering who your with and if you find them cheap?

our costs work out like

2.87p per unit for 7 hours at night.
9.63p in the day per unit, over 184 units it becomes 7.54p

and we're using aorund 3000 units in the day i think it was.

 

[smithrc]

Our house costs us just over £1 a day for the electric - that's with 6 tanks running and a PC permanently on.

3000 units is going to be about £30 a day... I hope you remembered wrongly!

 

[Paul_MTS]

£1 per day sounds alot better!!

3000 was for 1 quarter if that works out any better, but the bills have been something like 200 up to 300 some quarters.

so i now have to pay £100 per quarter.

 

[annka5]

Do you have electric heating, oven, immersion heater...? Loft insulation? Are a lot of things left on standby when you're not using them - i.e. still plugged in, just switched off at the unit, not the wall?
When did you last have the meter read - are the bills based on the company estimated use, or an actual reading?
£300 per quarter for domestic use seems very steep indeed...

 

[technium]

We have a key meter, easier to pay than big monthly/quarterly bills and it works out about £15 per week with a 6x2x2 and 8x2x2 tank and computer on all the time.

Were with Southern Electric if thats relevant.

nice too see you still here Paul.

thanks

T

 

[Bloo]

http/www.uswitch.com/ is a fantastic website that should help you find the best provider in your area - for any and everything !

 

[annka5]

A key meter..? Is that you put cash/ a card in to keep the power on? Those are HUGELY expensive (or used to be) - I had a rented flat with one and it cost about double per unit. This was in the Uk but was a long while ago.
If you can swap to monthly billing by direct debit, it really will work out significantly cheaper, regardless of supplier.

 

[technium]

A key meter..? Is that you put cash/ a card in to keep the power on? Those are HUGELY expensive (or used to be) - I had a rented flat with one and it cost about double per unit. This was in the Uk but was a long while ago.
If you can swap to monthly billing by direct debit, it really will work out significantly cheaper, regardless of supplier.

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I prefer key meter as it saves getting massive bills which you have to try and find x amount for at least I know where I am with one and too be honest dont find it any cheaper or more expensive than the normal billing methods other than direct debit is usually a few quid cheaper.

 

[Amber]

I'm with powergen too - I pay fifty quid a month by DD, this covers my gas use and electricty use combined (I run five tanks)

 

[Bloo]

I'm with powergen too - I pay fifty quid a month by DD, this covers my gas use and electricty use combined (I run five tanks)

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Mine's about exactly the same as yours - but we also have 2 x 24 hour servers and 2 other pc's (and all the gadgets that go with them) on most of the time. Not bad me thinks....

 

[smithrc]

our bill was £79 for 77 days (first in the new house)

 

[Bloo]

our bill was £79 for 77 days (first in the new house)

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Is that electricity only or electricity & gas ?

If only the former, then

 

[smithrc]

electricity only - thats only £1 a day...

 

[Paul_MTS]

there's not alot of things left on during the day that don't need to be, my mums a saving freak.

Maybe there's something going a drift in our system.

I'ved only currently got 3 tanks and 2 viv's.

i have 2x 300W, 3x 150W, 1x50W heaters. about 10 4ft light tubes on most the time, then a few pumps to run the tanks.

 

[houndour]

hmmm, i thought we were a bit bad at saving electricity. I have only one tank, but we have PCs and tvs (usually more than one) running a lot. I think our heater runs on electric too...anyways, our bill was £68 for 3 months. It's probably gonna go up next bill cos we're using a tumble dryer now.

oh and we're with southern electric.

i think it pays to shop around though. you tend to get stuck with companies sometimes cos it's too much bother to change.