Anyone’s electricity bills not going crazy?

[ThatsNotMyCrown]

I want to start by saying this isn’t a boast post.

I keep seeing everyone saying their electricity bills are sky rocketing to exorbitant levels, but mine haven’t. I don’t have gas, I have oil (which has gone ridiculously expensive) but my monthly electricity bills have barely changed. Everywhere I look it’s in the press that bills are going to be thousands of pounds, people on Facebook are talking about washing clothes in their bathtubs room save on bills. People on here saying they make £60,000 a year but can’t afford the lights on. But is this for everyone? I can’t work out if I’m the odd one out that my electricity bills haven’t gone crazy, or if it’s just that the people who are speaking out are the ones who have the issue and most people don’t and aren’t entering the discussion?
like I said, I’m not boasting, I’m just trying to work out if I need to start panicking about my bills for the future?

the £66 credit will be good as we only use about £57 a month on prepayment electricity.

It will certainly helps us pay for gas too! Which is about £5 a week for dishes, showers and heating.

Our house is just a 2 bedroom but we do WFH and have kids who like gaming

“You're not comparing your most recent (summer) bills with the year round picture are you?”

There’s not much difference between summer and winter electricity bills IME - not when the heating is oil.

If one is for twice as long as the other of course it will be much higher or am I misundrstanding

Bill 1 is 195 per month, bill 2 is 203 per month so pretty much the same

I find him intensely irritating, I can't watch him at all.

Mine went down by £60 last month, God knows how but I'm not complaining. Will be interesting to see how it goes this month and of it's ok I'm putting the bloody heating on 😂

It’s not on a fixed fee and I give metre readings every few months.

for the people saying about summer/winter months, I’m on oil so it doesn’t make that much difference. Water and heating coke from the oil so it’s just lights on when it gets dark earlier for us

I’m pleased to see it’s not just me! I was worried they’d catch on to me and I’d get a huge bill 🤦🏽‍♀️

I find him intensely irritating, I can't watch him at all

Not just me, then. Don't get the ML love at all.

I cannot stand ML. He seems quite reactive and talks (well he shouts!) like he's trying to sell double glazing. Whenever I see him I mute the TV.

There was a thread about him the other day.

This seems like are really small amount to be in credit at the start if winter if you want to pay the same amount all year around. We are £600 in credit and have still increased our direct debit. Our bills based on actual usage are three times as much, at least, in the winter compared to the summer.

No you're not misunderstanding, that's why I mentioned it.

I am however confused at how some of my bills are only 2 months apart and others are 3 or 4 months. I always thought quarterly meant 4 bills a year, spaced evenly.

Well I'm certainly noticing it on the smart meter. Usually I average £2.50 a day both gas & elec but since the new price increases I'll be somewhere between £3.50-£4 a day and that's without heating so I'm probably looking at £6 a day once I start heating my house and we get a real cold snap even more.

So on a per month basis without heating my bills have gone from £75 to £120 which is a 60% increase

The shouting and the speed at which he talks always reminds me of a salesman who wants to get you locked into a deal without thinking about it calmly; which is why I don't listen to what he says. He's provoking emotional reactions.

Our unit price for electricity was 15p this time last year. It is now 36p. The only way my electricity could stay the same would be if I used significantly less. You might be surprised by your next bill if you have only just cone off a fix.

Ours is up by £100 from this time last year. Not as much as some but we have oil too which has also gone up.

I was pleasantly surprised to find our electricity (old prepayment meter) is only predicted to go up by £268 a year and with the £400 we will be paying less for electricity.
However our heating is biomass wood pellets which have increased in price by 45% since January.

We have a 4 bed detached house ,Pleasantly surprised £180.00 .Had a credit of £350 .00! Have paid the same rate throughout Summer ,this rate also includes £400 from Govt .so all in all better than expected!

Is 36p really the cap for electricity? I’m being charged 46p and 11p at night be edf. My smart meter was scary yesterday

The economy 7 rates may have a higher day rate than the price cap rates

Mine is hardly going up at all, and I'm thinking am I missing something?? The general consensus is that everyone is going to be in massive trouble with bills, but I'm not seeing that at all. On top of that, my energy provider seems to have made a massive mistake and wiped out two years of energy usage when they installed my new meter, meaning I am currently over £1200 in credit, and they have therefore reduced my DD to £1 per month!!!! Added to that, I have just received my first credit of £66. It's like they're throwing money at me. What am I missing???? Are they going to realise their mistake and come after me to pay it all back?!

Have you checked your balance? My dad thought their bills hadn't gone up because their direct debit had remained the same. In fact, he was just unknowingly racking up a £2,500 debt.

We're all-electric. We have a 16-panel PV system, a battery system, solar thermal and a good air source heat pump. Also triple glazing. We get around £2000 pa in FITS payments for the PV and will do so until 2035. The income is index-linked, so will go up with inflation, and tax-free. From April till around now we have generated most of the electricity we need (it's been a particularly sunny year here) and our bills have been around £20 a month. As it gets darker and colder our usage will rise, but our home is very well-insulated and cheap to run and I'd be surprised if we ended up paying more than £100 a month for six months. The FIT (£2000) will cover it. Our DD is set at £45 and because we're so non-standard we're under no pressure from our provider SSE to put it up.

Obviously we're in the privileged position of having been able to pay around £45,000 to future-proof our home but we've been green for years and we work on the basis that if we can keep our outgoings as low as possible then when we retire our pensions can be spent on having fun rather than worrying about bills. I wish this option was open to everyone.

Mine has gone up purely because we got an electric car a week after the last review in April so we were paying about £70 per month less than we should have been paying.
In my friendship group it seems to be about a 30/70 split with 70% paying a lot more than say a year ago.

I am however quite suprised how little some people were paying in the past. In our old house ours were regularly £200 or so on gas in the winter and £80 on electric (4 bed Edwardian semi stone built) - in this house so far (80s 4 bed detached) even having had the heating on timed for a week now I can't see it would be much different- probably a bit less, even if I allow for a 30% rise in both . Big difference is great internal doors, good windows, double glazing- better situated thermostat etc. I'm always suprised when people say they were only paying £110 for both- even on a 2 bed flat or small house .

Are you with British Gas? They're shocking for irregular bill periods🙇🏻‍♀️

we're only into day 3 of the Oct Price Cap, which has been set at a lower rate than they'd said it would be and April was a price hike, but over summer so people didn't notice as much.

I mentioned this on another thread or maybe on the MN Facebook page (or somewhere!) and another Mumsnetter really shot me down aggressively for it

"You WILL be on your knees. Mark my words. The government really want us to suffer"

It scared me actually. I felt like I had royally screwed up my prepayment meter somehow but I haven't...

I was wondering if there’s less of a difference on prepayment as the rates were higher in the first place?