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Just had my annual energy usage statement...

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Lovemenorca · 29/11/2019 17:00

And I am a little alarmed
One adult, 2 children. I mainly work from home. I really feel the cold so I do have heating on a fair bit.

£2339 since 2/12/17!

How does that compare with others?

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dementedpixie · 29/11/2019 18:45

But you put your spend at £2339 and that edf quote says annual spend of £1225. Are you in credit?

dementedpixie · 29/11/2019 18:47

What do actually pay per month?

Lovemenorca · 29/11/2019 18:50

Good point, just read £133 in credit

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Lovemenorca · 29/11/2019 18:52

Weird
I input the correct figures but it’s defaulted to that

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roses2 · 29/11/2019 19:09

£1k per year is pretty good especially since you say you work from home and use the heating a lot.

dementedpixie · 29/11/2019 19:27

How much do you pay per month?

CurlyMango · 29/11/2019 20:27

It’s the same as mine and I also work from home

Jenala · 30/11/2019 19:30

@Lovemenorca are you being deliberately dense? The e.on thing says a saving of £100 but if you look at the actual amounts you say your bill has been for the last year £2339 and this is saying it'll cost you £1225. That's over £1000 saving...

What's your tariff with Bulb?

user1486131602 · 30/11/2019 19:37

God! I have a small 3 bed detached, £80 pm electric and £87pm for gas.......what am I doing wrong?! 😮

DownstairsMixUp · 30/11/2019 19:38

Averaged out ours is about 70 a month for both. But we are in a very well insulated new build house. Barely have the heating on.

Rafflesway · 30/11/2019 19:50

Lovemenorca not sure if this will help but I am also a Bulb customer.
As far as I am aware Bulb only have the one tariff which is Vari fair.

We have a 4 bed/2 bathroom detached, 1980's, semi rural on top of a hill so very open. Good insulation. We are early retired and leave the heating on 24/7 from October to end of March. We leave the main thermostat on around 15 - 20 if it's really cold - and individual thermostats on each radiator at roughly 3. Gas fire in sitting room which is mostly on low from mid afternoon until around 11.00pm. (Can't bear being cold 😁)

Electricity - economy 7. I always put the dishwasher on during the night and about 80% of my washing too but use the tumble dryer -5/6 times per week - during standard hours.

Strangely enough I added up our 12 month's worth of bills yesterday and they total £1198 for dual fuel. I pay £95 per month and top up when necessary. I checked the comparison sites which claimed to make savings but when I checked the price per kw it was higher than Bulb. Standard daily charge virtually nothing in it. Even Octopus was slightly higher per Kw.

I am sticking with Bulb for now.

mencken · 01/12/2019 11:16

Bulb are of course not really green - it is the same electricity and gas as anyone else. They just trade meaningless credits and support 'renewables' such as windfarms (which are very far from green). They also claim 100% carbon neutral gas. What, even when you burn it? That's clever.

other suppliers of greenwash are available.

GiantKitten · 01/12/2019 11:25

I’m with bulb too so prices will be the same?
3-bed medium-sized Victorian mid-terrace
only 2 of us here most of the time now
thermostat generally at 18.5-19
timer on 7.30am-10.30pm

I can’t find our annual figure, but their projection for the next 12 months is £1202

GiantKitten · 01/12/2019 11:34

Our usage is

3286 elec
17320 gas

So we use more gas & less elec but only pay half as much Confused

@Lovemenorca There’s something wrong somewhere! Did you put usage or payments into the comparison site? The reduction shown is £100 per month, not per year - but that’s what you should be paying with bulb on your usage Confused

Are you sure £2339 is one year?

CoolcoolcoolcoolcoolNoDoubt · 01/12/2019 11:39

So you’re alarmed at your statement but not looking to make any changes to your usage? What a pointless thread 😂

BarbaraofSeville · 01/12/2019 12:17

Those usage figures look similar to ours as does the price if it's for two years, but you say it's for one year which puts you on a very very expensive tariff Confused or else your usage figures are way off.

TheCanyon · 01/12/2019 16:13

I think you must've made a mistake @Lovemenorca
Putting that usage into bulb gives a monthly payment of 106.26.

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