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Energy readings? Am I being a bit thick here?

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pistachioshells · 05/12/2022 11:36

Can anyone help me understand my British Gas meter readings and how my consumption is calculated please?

On my electricity readings (there's a pic attached), my most recent reading was 05060. If you deduct the previous reading of 04966, that gives a correct consumption of 94kWh.

The gas readings however seem strange to me! For example, most recent meter reading is 01805 and the previous reading was 01775 which would seem to be a difference of/consumption of 30 kWh but on the BG website, it says 334 kWh.

I'm probably being really thick and missing something here but can anyone help me understand why the consumption on my electricity seems accurate but it's different on gas? I would just assume you deduct one number from the other in order to work out the amount of kWhs?

Energy readings? Am I being a bit thick here?
Energy readings? Am I being a bit thick here?
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Guardsman18 · 05/12/2022 11:42

Have you had a look at last month or previous months? (Thicko here too!)

pistachioshells · 05/12/2022 11:50

Ahhh, thank you! I was assuming the gas meter reading was recording in kWhs but obviously I have to convert it. Thanks. That's really helpful!

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Notanotherone6 · 05/12/2022 14:25

Gas readings are often in m3. So many people get caught out by this. Multiply by 11 and it'll roughly give you it in kWh.

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