How much are your energy bills increasing post April 2024?

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Did your supplier email you to let you know?

Eon did, last week. From £116 to £174 a month for a 1 bedroom flat.
Utter joke.

2024? No idea.

For 2023 they’ve gone up £10, or down £57 if you count the governments £67 a month we got over winter

My DD has increased to over £300 for a 4 bed, and I’m still slightly in the red. I’m switching all lights off and the heating hasn’t gone above 17 all winter. It really is a joke.

Electric up £8 a year, gas down £1. They shouldn't change much as the epg is the same, it's a standing charge/unit rates tweak. Up £67 a month obviously but are we counting that? £83 for a three bed with two people.

Mine's staying the same. Can only guess it's because we've reduced our usage.

The big change is the lost £67, other than that then direct debits should only change significantly if coming off a fix or if you were previously underpaying compared to usage.

I'm not expecting to hear anything until the new price cap in July (when hopefully it'll reduce). I've submitted my readings though and can see we have remained within expected usage, our annual review isn't until September though.

We've worked out that electricity alone (not including hot water and heating, which are oil) will cost us around £9k this year...

Are you talking about your bill for usage or your direct debit?

by more than 100%

and we now have a smart meter

From April 1st my prices have changed as follows:

GAS
27.468p standing charge and 10.268p/kwh
(Was 26.841p and 10.277p/kwh)

ELECTRICITY
60.024p standing charge and 32.909p/kwh
(Was 49.021p and 33.763p/kwh)

As the £67 has stopped my direct debit is going from £220 to £287. I have adjusted my timer for heating and turned down the thermostat so hopefully my gas usage should reduce.

Surely time to invest in solar? Or are you in the far north with no sun? Our solar, when generating 0.2kw more than we are using we have a solar iboost that diverts the excess and heats the hot water, so the oil doesn't have to. We're 4 beds and currently using around 2700kw/year. (Oil we use about 750l a year - we cook on oil in winter, electric in summer, and everything is on timers, heating, hot water, etc)

My direct debit has increased by the lost £67.

My OVO electricity (on standard variable rate) from April is
Unit rate 31.92p per Kilowatt hour (was 32.59)
Standing charge 47.23p a day (was 42.29)

Your standing charge is a killer! Nearly £50 more a year for nothing!

Are you in the UK? At 34 p per kwh £9000 a year is over 2000 kwh a month.

We live in an ordinary 2 bed semi and like you don't need electricity for heating.

We don't skimp yet use 140kwh of electricity a month in the winter, this drops in the the summer.

@Nolongera yes, in the UK. It's skyrocketed (well everyone's has, I know)

Are you really using over 2000kwh of electricity a month? Where do you live, Downton Abbey?

Surely time to invest in solar? Or are you in the far north with no sun? Our solar, when generating 0.2kw more than we are using we have a solar iboost that diverts the excess and heats the hot water, so the oil doesn't have to. We're 4 beds and currently using around 2700kw/year. (Oil we use about 750l a year - we cook on oil in winter, electric in summer, and everything is on timers, heating, hot water, etc)

I'd love to, but it's listed so we cannot have solar panels. We've got an air source heat pump for our annexe, which is pretty good and is great for air con in the summer. But in the main house we use oil for the heating and hot water.

Talking about elec/gas prices without stipulating your usage is just a bit pointless IMO. This energy price crunch has really revealed how many people don't understand their energy bills or where their usage is going.

Discobeat that is an insane amount of elec usage! How are you getting through 2000kwh/m? That's industrial-level usage, not typical domestic.

For comparison we (large 5 bed house, elec cooker and showers) used max 500kwh/month before we fitted solar, now more like 230kwh/month from the grid. You could possibly make some very substantial elec savings by fitting solar and a battery and shifting some of your usage off peak.

Practically all our electricity usage is off peak rate as we have solar and a battery which we charge at night, so I think our electricity increases will be very minimal. (I appreciate fitting solar isn't an option for everybody which is a real shame as it can really make a dent in your energy bills)

Our elec prices (Octopus Go) will be going up as follows in April:
Standing charge up from 51p to 56p a day
(So 4p/day x 30 days in a month = £1.20 increase per month)
Peak elec up from 42p to 46p per kWh
Offpeak (nighttime) elec stays same at 12p per kWh.

We currently use about 230kwh of grid elec a month mostly at 12p/KWh off peak rate, so about £28 for that plus £15 standing charge, total about £45-50/m
We will use less grid elec over the summer months as solar kicks in.

Our central heating is oil so we are at the mercy of oil prices for that but I reckon we get through £200/m of oil in winter months and £40/m oil in the summer months so maybe £1500 oil per year, possibly a bit more.

Are you really using over 2000kwh of electricity a month? Where do you live, Downton Abbey?
Haha no, four bed house, with separate large annexe which is used daily, we're both retired so we're here pretty much home all the time. Children have elaborate gaming set ups and lighting in their room although they're out a lot. Lots of washing machine/dishwasher use due to multiple sports, big dog etc on top of the usual stuff. DH and my laptops are usually open all the time. Outdoor lighting - we're down a dark track so have lighting on our gates and sensor lights around the building until late. The oven is often on twice a day if not three, so we have pretty heavy electricity usage. None of it is major, but it all adds up.

Discobeat ah ok so elec for ASHP in the annex must be using a fair chunk of your usage - your £9000 elec is heating a whole other property too..!

Can you not ground mount some solar panels? Or put them on a shed roof?

Discobeat you could just fit batteries without solar panels and charge them overnight on eg Octopus Go when elec is 1/3 of the price per kWh.

It's definitely worth looking into putting them on the ground, although we're quite low down here so I'm not sure how effective the would be. We haven't got a shed, we have a couple of small outbuildings attached to our annexe, which came under strict guidelines when we were building it so it was 'in keeping' with the house. A friend has solar and it really does look great.

@Babamamananarama we looked into Octopus Go for our electric car but the daily charge added up so much that it was no cheaper than our standard British Gas account (we got pushed onto them when Bulb folded. Shame as we got cheap rate at night so charged up then)