How much are your energy bills?

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Just that really - I'm interested to know how ours stack up as I suspect they are horrifically large.
How much are your energy bills? Are they separate or combined? How many people in your house and what is your house like?

our bill is £362.

We are currently using about £120 a month so building up a buffer for the winter

But does that DD actually tally with your actual usage? We are a 3 bed semi and 2 people and we used £50 of energy on the last month of our fix.

On the new SVR no fix we have are on track in July to maybe use £65 of energy . Our DD is advised to be £90. It will be more in winter I’m sure with the increase again but we have credit built up ready.

Gosh these seem low to me
I am very fortunate to be on an incredibly low fix until sept 24.

2 bed flat, single parent with one primary school aged child. The flat has electric only. I'm luckily on a fixed tariff until the end of February 2023 and pay £72.54 per month.

Does anyone have any idea roughly how much the bill is likely to increase to when the tariff ends? I appreciate that may be a silly question. I'm worried about being able to pay the bill if it doubles. I'm already struggling.

Your electricity is bonkers high! My household sounds very similar to yours. In June we used 87.2 kWh electricity and 29.6 kWh gas. In January (our highest month) we used 103.4 kWh electricity and 558.5 kWh gas. Multiplying the current rates by 1.65 to get an estimate of this January gives me about £60 for electricity and £65 for gas so £290 is really absurd.

We were paying £96 a month for electric, but recently had solar panels installed. Our online account hasn't been updated to reflect our decreased usage so I'm not sure what our new bill will be.

No gas where we are, so heat the house with oil. Probably averages out to about £100 a month. We do use the woodburner and fire too, up until recently we had a free supply of logs.

House is an old 5 bed detached, but a lot of work was done to it a few years ago and extra insulation was added.
Although our kitchen is quite big we don't have any massive open plan spaces to heat. Most rooms are quite small, which was typical in order houses. Our house seems easier to heat than my aunts open plan bungalow which has a huge double height kitchen/dining/living area.

End of row, 3 bed house. 2 adults, 1 teen. Fixed last year at £130 but we overpay £150.

We still have to give meter readings each month and use around £140 a month

Ours is £110 a month combined, 2 adults and 2 young DC in a 3 bed semi. We fixed in August 21 for 2 years so haven't felt the price rises yet.

@AbreathofFrenchair why overpay? You could just stick the money in a savings account until it’s billed and get a few pennies from it yourself instead of the energy company profiting

What rate are you all on?

2 up, 2 down terrace with 2 adults (one wfh 3 out of 5 days) and an 8 year old - all electric, paying £193 a month with Bulb. I'm putting aside an extra twenty each month in prep for the increased prices later this year, but it will hardly make a dent 🙄

Has anyone else having problems with the handover from Neon Reef to British Gas? We were paying about £270 a month until the price hike, during which time we shopped around and switched provider 3 times. Each company went bust. Our correct usage now costs around £400pm (and our direct debit is that amount) but despite having a smart meter BG have estimated a 3 month period at the changeover at way over (3 x the usual usage). Also they have been charging double night rate instead of half! We are still trying to sort it out but the upshot is they have overcharged us by £3k. What a shambles. Just wondering if that has happened to anyone else,

What rate are you all on?
We are on 28p pkwh +vat daytime and half that at night. Due to the balls up from British Gas I just posted about, we are very keen to switch to Octopus, but I'd like to get our bill put straight first.

Pay £230 but am using £160 at the mo

Ours has gone up from £350 to £820. Six people in a big house.

We live in an old (late 1800s) 3 bed semi. Single brick so no cavity wall insulation. We have an open fire and a log burner (so no gas fires). Our fixed rate tariff ended at the end of June and our bills have gone from £172 to £340 per month

Some of these seem eyewatering our bill was £63 on the svr. 4 bed semi.

Ooh, forgot to say 2 adults, 2 children

4 bed detached house; 2 adults and 1 teen
£128 a month and I have been told I'm paying too much!

My usage means that my annual payments currently total £2400, on a two year fix set in January. But I had a recent solar and battery installation so that was higher a few months ago and it will reduce further still. Our combined June bill was just shy of £50. 4 bed detached, 3 kids, ev and entirely electric kitchen.

We pay £180 a month.

2 adults, 1 toddler in a 4 bed semi detached house. I WFH 3 out of 4 days a week.

We’re with Octopus, we fixed in September ‘21 and tariff ends September ‘22.

Currently have £345 credit.
May-July we used £105 electric and £55 gas.

Going to allow the credit to continue building for winter so I don’t have to freeze my nipples off with no heating on whilst WFH!

5 bed semi but also have an Airbnb shed in back garden we power as well - it was about £170 combined per month now up to £350 I think. Horrific, how can they get away with it?

We pay £389, last month we used £283 which was 1239.37 KWH.
We're not paying anything near enough, in Jan we used 4021.11 KWH

We are using £5-8 per day electric. I'm actually very economical and careful so I think there's something wrong with either our appliances or the meter (although they say it is OK). We moved to a new house and despite living the same and having the same stuff our usage has quadrupled. We switched everything off bar the fridge, 2x freezers, fish tank and pond off for 2 weeks whilst we were away and the electric use still cost a minimum of £5 /day.
@PigletJohn is there anything we can do to find out what is causing such high usage as EDF aren't interested.
We had the whole house renovated so electrics, etc, are all new (5yrs ago) and old electric meter was moved outside and changed to a smart meter, although bills were unusually high even before we started renovating.
If I didn't know better I'd think we were paying for the street lighting (or something), but our street's electrical cables run overhead and they changed our meter so wouldn't that mean it's not possible?
We had our meter checked and it came within their tolerance (102%), but it did go backwards when all appliances etc was switched off (at fuse board), which I said was strange as he said it wouldn't move, but he said backwards didn't count.
Any advice appreciated.

2 bed flat, octopus, south east - actual usage elec £66 per month and gas £25 (June). It's doubled in the last year. We pay £160 per month to average out costs. I've given up using the tumble etc.