How much is your energy bill?

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We moved into our first home in September last year, we were previously in a rented house paying £80 a month for gas and electric. Our new home is with Bulb and we are currently paying £152 a month based on the previous owners use, although I’ve calculated our actual use for the past 6 months has been around £109 a month. Our new tariffs mean our bill is going up to £267 a month.

I did shop around for a different energy company when we moved but because we’re new home owners an

Fixed rates do not have to be capped. The variable rate does. That's why the variable rates are all currently cheaper than any fixed ones. But the variable ones will keep increasing as the price caps do.

The cap on the variable rate differs by region.

[quote oreo2020]@dementedpixie your capped unit prices from April are lower than EON currently offers me i.e. 34.66 for electricity and 8.57 for gas unit?
Are they not meant to be capped then? [/quote]
Capped rates only apply to standard variable rates not fixed rates. The capped rates vary a little by where you live too

I am paying £113 per month. Scottish Power say that I will pay £1020 more per year from April. That would seem to be an extra £85 per month, or a price hike of 75%. I’m an intelligent person, but haven’t been a bill payer for very long, and I’m pretty much baffled.

@YesILikeItToo your 75% increase seems like a good deal compared to mine over 120% increase

I pay £74 / month for gas and electric. Am currently over £200 in credit.
This is fixed till June this year.
Then it says I will pay £270 / month.

That can't be right, can it? Over 300% increase?

I've always submitted readings.
2 bed mid terrace with just me and DS.

@oreo2020 How are these figures meant to relate to the 57% increase to the capped rates announced? I have to say that as I was on the variable rate, I thought my bills would change by about 57%. It's hard to avoid the conclusion that the power companies don't actually want you to understand how it all works.

SVR here, pay on receipt of the bill.

5 bed house, 2 adults, two preteens. Heating as little as we can get away with.

Most expensive months was December at £170 for dual fuel.
January £150
February £141

Switched heating to 30 minutes morning and 1 hour evening so we'll see if that makes a difference.

We're both low paid so it's very worrying.

4-bed terrace - we're on an Octopus tariff that aims to be a spread out over the year with as little need for change as possible - it's gone from £180 to £220 as of this month. So evidently we're not that badly off compared to some people. I'm wondering, given the £400 figure a few people have given for similar sized houses, if it's just the spread out tariff or maybe we're just miserly with heating?

We're paying around £335 pcm with Scottish Power even though our tariff was fixed until end of 2023. An equivalent tariff would be £700~ according to their app.

I need to call them though as apparently we used £2 gas on Saturday despite not being here and having turned off the boiler, that's way more than the standing charge. Either I don't understand how it works or something is going wrong.

We only have the heating on for 2 hours max daily, I don't know what else we can do.

We moved from a small three bed terrace to a large 4 bed semi in October and our bills tripled even though we were on a pre-pay tariff before. We can just about afford it but it's worrying as I think it'll go up even further - originally they set my direct debit to £120 pcm and then found I was £900 in debit after three months!

£62, variable. Small three bed semi, two people. Heating has been turned down another degree to 15 (three hours a day) to use the minimum I can comfortably get away with. I find I don't notice a degree at a time.

I'm shocked by how little some people use their heating!

Mine is set at 19 degrees pretty much all day, every day during winter. It goes off at night, but the house never falls below 15 degrees.

I've just fixed with eon - £140 per month for a 3 bed semi

5 bed house, DH wfh, £300 a month.

Mine is set at 19 degrees pretty much all day, every day during winter. It goes off at night, but the house never falls below 15 degrees.
We aren't home in the day, so I only have it on for an hour in the morning, then when I get home for two hours. DS could press plus one hour if he was cold (he often sits in the park with friends after school so I don't have it set earlier) but he really doesn't feel it. The house is well insulated and only drops a few degrees.

I am with Eon Next and am fixing from next month and the fixed tariff is the same as their variable rate. Therefore in October our bill won't go up. I consider that a good option.

I don't understand how some people's bills seem to be sky-rocketing. Ours is going from £124 a month (fixed since last March) to £214 in April. Five adults in a three story house, heating on 6 hours a day and multiple pcs, x boxes, TVs all running.

Just gone up from £200 to £270. 4 bed terrace, both adults WFH, electric car. So this is our gas, electric and majority of local driving which seems pretty reasonable compared to some on here.

I moved into my current house in August 2021. Was previously in a 4 bed semi and energy with Bulb variable rate. I had solar panels and only paid £32 per month.
When I moved I started a two year fix with Eon (now Eon Next). They wanted to set the DD at £75 but I refused as I felt that was too high. My house is a 4 room single storey bungalow. Of course in August last year there were no clear sign this energy hike was coming. I am paying £53 per month. Over the winter my bill has been between £45 and £50 per month. My account is in credit by £95 at the moment which will increase as the weather gets warmer. I am not reducing my DD though as it will help when my fixed rate ends in August 2023. I'm trying not to think what I will have to pay then. I live alone on a small NHS pension topped up from the equity released from my house sale, which has to last until I get my state pension in 2026.