£1958 electricity bill for small 2 bed apartment?

[Aprilsund]

Is that really high?
How much do you pay for similar?
Just been told my bill will be going up around £181 per year

Not sure how I'm going to afford that

90 a month in the warmer months, circa 120-130 once the hearing goes on. Extended 3-bed semi

That's combined gas and electric

Estimate for the next year

I will have to check that,I'm not good with this sort of thing. Not used to doing it myself 😂

According to that you are using about £40 of electricity every week. That really seems huge. Are you leaving an immersion heater on all the time?

That's crazy money.

I pay £60pm for gas and electric, 3 bedroom house, terraced, just me. I'm here all day, every day because I'm disabled and can't work.

Mines £180 a month so sounds right. We are two people in a 2 bed bungalow which is same as a flat really. We have gas heating and shower.

Around £163 per month for Electricity in a 2 bed flat is HUGE when it doesn't include Heating and hot water. Massively over what you would expect. We live in a 3 bed semi-detached house and our Bill for both Gas and Electricity comes to more or less the same. We are retired, so home most days, for a lot of the day. Electricity Bill on its own in our house is around £100 a month - and I run a CPAP machine and a fan every night, use a lot of tech and run a tumble Drier 1-2 times a week on average.

I think you need to speak to your supplier and ask them to do a meter check.

My electric on a gas and electric house (2 bed) is £35-£45 a month. It doesn't vary much over the year. Shower is running on gas.

I'm paying £140 a month for a 4 bed, it varies a lot depending on age of property

Do your showers run off your electric or gas because electric showers are often the most expensive use of electricity in your standard residential property?

Check you airing cupboard. I had a scenario where I had 2 switches - one for hot water all the time and 1 for Economy 7 which only kicked in at night. I had them both switched on for a while when I moved in and got a very nasty shock!

You don’t have a range cooker do you? They suck electricity like you wouldn’t believe. The tumble dryer would be your main culprit. I agree it does sound like an immersion heater button turned on but when I have had to do that twice in the last three years, it was vastly higher ~ £350 a month and then cooking on electric as an extra cost.

Is your boiler old and does it switch off and on all the time if your flat is old and doesn’t retain heat? That also sucks a lot of electricity away. Top floor flats will also use more energy than middle floor flats due to heat loss through the roof.

Electric showers are also surprisingly expensive to run.

But, as the PP said, we need kWh. From at least one bill and a time period given to us. Before you contact them to say there is a mistake.

That's a lot
Mine is around £50pm (gas heating/shower/hob) and I have an electric oven, dehumidifier, WFH and a heated airer (no dishwasher or tumble dryer)

This give the direct debit estimates

how much electric do you use per annum?
how much is the cost and standing charge?

msny people stating they pay £130 or whatever a month, but not giving usage ? It becomes meaningless

Electric oven - swap to air fryer and slow cooker where possible, this will greatly reduce your electric consumption. Plan meals around slow cooker and sides by airfryer

tumble dryer only for emergency use! Get an airer and open window over night. Spin on 1400 spin after washing cycle has finished

It does seem a lot - we pay 145 a month for combined gas and electric in a three bed house with an electric car.
On the standard tariff not an electric car one.

Yes my equivalent letter from octopus says

4500 day (so 12 units)
And 2400 night (so 6.5 units)

The night is just hot water (all year) and heating 6 months (plus washing machine dishwasher if we run overnight -however I tend to avoid washing machine overnight in a flat so avoid disturbing other people)

That's 2 bed flat. Plus 40p standing charge per day.

You can cook proper meals in air fryer too

Do you never read your meter, OP?

How long have you lived there?

You'd think after all this time of the energy cost crisis people would have cottined on to the fact that the DD is meaningless but still we have pages and pages of posts with essentially random numbers

What's the point people?

@Aprilsund are you submitting actual readings?

We're 2 adults in a 3 bedroom terrace. Dishwasher on every day, gas water and heating, don't use the tumble dryer unless it's unavoidable, airfry where we can so minimal oven use. Combined bill is around £130 per month.

And of course where you live makes a difference.

London electric costs more than other regions.

Are you being funny 😁, just in case you aren't

The standing charge differs from region to region but the price of the units is determined by who you buy them from not where you live.

www.uswitch.com/gas-electricity/guides/why-are-energy-rates-different-by-region/#:~:text=Which%20areas%20in%20the%20UK,highest%20average%20energy%20unit%20rates.

Uswitch seems to agree prices vary based on the where you live.