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Think I'm paying for someone somebody else's electricity and I'm not even joking.

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Epicstorm · 11/10/2022 15:02

Our fuel bills have always been very high and I've long felt something isn't right.
Obviously the current hike in prices has brought this to the fore. I've contacted my fuel provider who say they aren't responsible for what's being charged to the meter. Our payments are twice what our neighbours pay (identical house, two retired occupants so circumstances very similar). Fuel provider says they estimate a much lower reading bases on the house size but the actual readings we give are much higher. We (like the rest of the country) have been very frugal with our energy use and I can't believe what they say we're using. Everyone I know pays a lot less than us even bigger families in bigger houses.

I wondered if anyone else has experienced anything like this and what you did? Did you find you were paying for something you shouldn't have been? Were you able to resolve the issue? I'm at a loss to know what to do. It isn't a smart metre by the way . I don't really want one and it would still presumably register any usage that wasn't ours. I'd be so grateful for any help.

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roses2 · 11/11/2022 16:20

Still trying to find out what the problem is. The other night our meter recorded 27 kw while we were in bed. .......That night we turned everything off at the mains except for fridge and freezer and used 3 overnight.....

Why don't you follow the advice and switch things on one by one and monitor hourly? It's clearly not a meter issue if your usage dropped when you switched everything off bar the fridge freezer.

TwinklingStarlight · 11/11/2022 17:12

Plug monitor on the various fridges and freezers would be the obvious thing to start with. Did you have any luck getting a better one?

At this point I think it would be worth running down the freezer and maybe going without for a month or so. It must be maddening but you can only gather evidence it's not you by switching things off.

I have read somewhere that freezers can go a bit mad in outhouses if the ambient temp is colder than they're designed for, and that can make them go into overdrive and be expensive to run. But even if that's true, it was ridiculously mild in Oct so that doesn't seem very likely. If it is one of your appliances, a fault looks most likely

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