£760 per month for energy!

[Veuvelily]

Dear God
It was £323.
There are 2 people living in this house

@Veuvelily

Dear God It was £323. There are 2 people living in this house

Do you walk around in your underwear with your thermostat set to 35°, your windows wide open, doing 2 x loads of washing and tumble drying it, and the hot tap running all day?

Because I can't think how else you are using that much energy. I live in a 3 bed, and there's me plus two teens. Our thermostat is set at 15°, we wear fluffy socks/slippers and jumpers, use blankets in the living room in the evening, take short showers and do 2-3 loads of laundry a week which is air dried. My monthly spend is under £100.

Wow! 4 of us in a 4 bed semi. 2 of us working from home so devices on constantly. And ours is going up from £118 to £200 a month. I thought that was bad!

Mine was £55 going to £119 and really can't afford that!
Do you have exotic plants in the loft by any chance 🤣

@LeggyLinda

I keep seeing posts like this (on here and other forums) and people generally comment by saying things like “crazy consumption” etc. but, without context it’s difficult to say whether it is due to upcoming energy increases, coming off fixed tariffs, outstanding balances or genuinely high consumption.

We have a relatively small 2 bed house (yes it’s old and can do with better insulation and stuff).
We have paid between £150-£200 per month for all electricity and gas over last 12 months. Previously we we in a fixed tariff and paid £155 dd per month. That ran out a while back and was overlooked.

So, we are on standard tariff - around £175 per month average (dd ups and downs as consumption adjusted).
We have just been informed that as of April this is likely to be around £650 per month. Same usage, same supplier, same tariff.

I don’t think there is any debt that is being included in that. Though will admit 3/4 bills are usually estimated.

Just a rant really. But please don’t criticise people with high bills and assume they are energy wasters.

Again, are you on a fixed tariff.if so your actual bill should not rise unless your consumption rises. But the energy companies are trying to increase peoples direct debits regardless so they can use customers credit as cash flow Work out your usage and actual bill carefully. Figur3 out annual usage. Di I’ve by 12 then go back to energy company and challenging the DD increase

I'm not sure what your quoting, are your figures per month or per quarter,
Are you quoting gas and electric combined or just one or the other,
My increase, (which nearly made me fall off my seat) was, for a 2 bed mid semi,
Gas up to 1020 per year (85/mth)
Electric up to 1450 per year (121/mth)
I am off work sick at the moment, hoping to return when health improves, so at the moment in receipt of universal credit which is around £80 per week, which will only just cover energy Bill's, which means we have to live off partners finances, which I might add is minimum wage
It's pretty fucking shit

For those questioning 680

22000 litre koi pond
10 man hot tub
Tumble drier on most day
And we never turn anything off

There is only two of us

But we also have a 4.4 litre Range Rover and a 3.0 litre merc so hey ho

I’ve been dreading to see what my new energy bill is going to be.
But £360? How are were you being charged that much before? I only pay £80 and I thought that was steep. I know I live alone but I have a 2 bedroom house and I have the heating on a lot.

I agree with others on here, the original £300 pcm for 2 seems a lot - I'm a single person, 1 bedroom flat, wfh so have TV or radio on as background noise all day, charging all my laptop, phone etc. I'm a bit tight with heating but cook three times a day and do several loads of washing a week and take big baths often and shower twice a day and I pay £100 tops. Would've thought it would only be a wee bit more - double most for 2 people.

If your company won’t give you a more sensible calculation, I’d talk to a different company (but steer clear of E.on, they are awful). I have a 4 bed detached, two adults and I have been paying £138 per month for gas and electricity. I am expecting a huge increase, but nowhere near your past payments!

I literally don’t know how I’m going to afford my energy bill it’s gone from just under £1,200 a year to nearly £4,000 a year! 3 bed townhouse, nobody in all day, washer on 2-3 times a week, same with dryer, pegging my washing out now weather is nice, tv on in the evening, heating was on for an hour each night.

Seems very high to me
4 of us in 5 bed victorian heat sieve
Annual usage is 4750kwh for electricity and 30,000 kwh for gas.

When we move to a variable tariff that will be about £300 per month.

Seems incredibly high. We’re in an old and big 5/6 bed house and lours has just gone up from £200 to £300 a month. 4 people, 2 home all day long.

We are a family of five in a four bedroom, detached in the Scottish Highlands (think cold and damp). Two adult sons and a teenager and all the IT that goes with them. Ds2 works from home and dh and I are home all day. One to two washes and tumble dries every day (although a load hung out the last few days), five showers and a fair bit of cooking.

We were paying £180 a month on a fix that has just finished and we are now paying £330 on a years fix. We would be less on the variable tariff but with prices (likely) rising in April and October I decided the fix was worth it for the certainty. £330 is a lot for us to find but I couldn’t find £500/600 so it seemed like the safest move.

Our winter usage for a 5 bedroom house, entirely electric (heat pump and solar panels) will be £1600 per month and summer usage is around £900 per month using April's new rates. We only bought the house a year ago and were told by the previous owner that the heat pump and solar panels meant that our bills were negligible and we even got money back from the energy company for generating for the grid. Hmmmm.... had I had any idea the real cost running a poxy heat pump I wouldn't have touched the house with a barge pole

@AnnieSnap

If your company won’t give you a more sensible calculation, I’d talk to a different company (but steer clear of E.on, they are awful). I have a 4 bed detached, two adults and I have been paying £138 per month for gas and electricity. I am expecting a huge increase, but nowhere near your past payments!

None. Of. The. Utility. Companies. Are. Quoting. For. Switches.

Fgs!

I thought mine was bad I am in 3 bed used to pay £100 a month gas and electric now they want £211 they decided that that's probably what I'd use even though they just refunded me £430 overpayment from last year that I had amassed. Supposingly they don't take that into account. They also recommend an extra a £11 just for the sake of it to get things back in good footing with the current crisis. "again despite me being refunded £430 and still having £100 credit. Think not told me them I'd increase to £150 for a few month then I'd work out what I was using myself and deduct or raise the amount then. They didn't want me too but I told them I'm not paying them just because they want me to amass money when the amount I was paying was already clearly too high.

I've used £0.47 electricity since 21st March cos I have PV and a battery. If yiu want to get out of thus mess start planning now. Zero VAT is likely soon too make this zero C tech much more affordable.

I feel liberated from this energy ransom because of it. Sadly I don't yet have air source heating, but I'm looking into it...!

@VanGoghsDog

My annual charge is estimated by Eon at £5,600pa, £466 x 12. No idea where you got your number from

It literally states that on your bill.
Your estimated usage and your estimated cost.

@Bozlem80

I literally don’t know how I’m going to afford my energy bill it’s gone from just under £1,200 a year to nearly £4,000 a year! 3 bed townhouse, nobody in all day, washer on 2-3 times a week, same with dryer, pegging my washing out now weather is nice, tv on in the evening, heating was on for an hour each night.

Do you know your usage in KWH?

I’m a single mum 7 kids in a tiny 3 bed cottage and I have to put £40 every 2 days on my electric key! That’s the cheapest rate I could get! Really don’t know how I am going to survive!

You’re being ripped off. We’re with British Gas and currently pay approx £180 a month. Due to increase to approx £290 a month. We’re on a smart meter so it changes each month. Our increase is 58%.

[quote cakeorwine]@VanGoghsDog

My annual charge is estimated by Eon at £5,600pa, £466 x 12. No idea where you got your number from

It literally states that on your bill.
Your estimated usage and your estimated cost.[/quote]
No, the bit you looked at was last year's bill I included as a comparison. It "literally" says now £466pm.

@Jaxhog

It depends where you live and what you live in. We're 2 people in a detached house on top of a hill in SE. Admittedly, we're both retired and at home, but we still pay around £200 a month (averaged over the year).

I umm-ed and ah-ed about fixing last August. Thank god I did. To fix now would cost £700! Even the new cap is better than this.

I had a thought when I moved into where I am... the website to switch addresses first asked how many bedrooms the house had, not how many people, the quote I got 3 years ago for my estimated usage was double my old home... same equipment, same number of people.... I did queuery this and got told by a lady on the phone what do I expect if I live in a big house? this house although same no of bedrooms, is smaller than previous one, more insulated and oil heating not electric, so go figure, I firmly belive they make up the prices as they see fit, it ought to be a set rate per unit of electricity used, regardless of how much they THINK you can afford to pay

@Booboobagins

I've used £0.47 electricity since 21st March cos I have PV and a battery. If yiu want to get out of thus mess start planning now. Zero VAT is likely soon too make this zero C tech much more affordable.

I feel liberated from this energy ransom because of it. Sadly I don't yet have air source heating, but I'm looking into it...!

What's a PV? I don't understand your post...can you elaborate?

it ought to be a set rate per unit of electricity used, regardless of how much they THINK you can afford to pay

It is a set rate per unit of electricity 🤨. They have no idea how much you "can afford to pay".