AIBU to think more than £95 per month for gas is too much?

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So I live in a two bedroom flat with my daughter, my gas bill has been £95 per month during the summer months for gas alone (electric is separate) and I called edf to discuss this and they advised that the £95 per month is not even covering my full bill so at the moment I am in debt with them.

How on earth can my bills be more than £95 per month I didn't have the heating on atall through the summer.

Or is this similar to what other are paying? I just find it shocking

I had a similar problem in my old house. I was being charged ridiculous amounts when I couldn't possibly have used that much, (summer, so no heating on or tumble dryer) and after months of phone calls to useless British Gas, they finally sent someone out to check the meter. It was faulty. They were trying to charge me £158 a month!!

That seems very high but you might be on a dreadful high standing charge per day?

I am with Scottish power with a smart meter 3 bed house I pay £92 for gas and electric

how do smart meters cut bills beyond giving you access to a slightly lower priced tariff?

the meter didn't do it, you suddenly realised how much you were wasting. The line that smart meters save money is an enormous lie.

if OP comes back with unit prices it will be interesting.

Smart meters do nothing that you can't do yourself without a calculator or spreadsheet.

It's not hard to work out what's using all the electricity, it's whatever heats things up, so water heaters, radiators/heating systems and possibly some types of lightbulbs if you have a lot of them.

They gave me a better deal to get one installed. It’s marketing. Then when the deal is up I will shop around

HTH

I work for an enery company, there are many reasons your payment might be so high. First thing to check is that you're giving regular meter reading so the bill is accurate, rather than estimated. Need to look at your running balance over several bills as the payment may be higher than the amount your using to cover debt from winter or even years ago.
Sometimes old and inefficient appliances can have a massive affect on bills like very old boilers. Water heaters left on accidentally or hot water running all day if you don't have an ondemand type boiler.
There's really lots and lots of reasons including a mistake in the prediction of how much energy you use.
If you want to pm me I'm happy to try and look at it for you :)

I'm in a 2 bed apartment and pay £45pm for gas and electric so yes, seems high

Smart meters cut the bills cause the power company can't carry on claiming you are using double what your own records say.

(Not bitter... not me, no...)