793euro ESB Bill WTF??

iii Stevo iii · 01-04-2008 5:38pm #1

A friend just got this bill:

General Units: 4327 x .1324: 572.89 euro
Night heating: 1548 x .0700: 108.36
Vat 94.30euro

over 63days.

nothings changed much since last 2 months, bill was around 140 then.

Whats going on?

Silverfish · 01-04-2008 5:42pm

How long has it been since his last meter reading / non-estimated bill?

iii Stevo iii · 01-04-2008 5:44pm

he said that your man came around a month ago.

Silverfish · 01-04-2008 5:48pm

Okay, and this was the bill he received from that reading.
It looks like all his bills up to now were estimated, perhaps because they could not gain access to read the meter.

Now its read, and he owes the balance of units used.

iii Stevo iii · 01-04-2008 5:49pm

He's only being living in the house for 5months

Silverfish · 01-04-2008 5:51pm

And did he give a meter reading to the ESB when he moved in?

iii Stevo iii · 01-04-2008 6:00pm

The meter was read when he moved in. Could it be that the first bill was an estimate and this bill is the catch up?

seamus · 01-04-2008 6:03pm

If he's renting and he's got two meters, then I'd imagine he's in an apartment with storage heaters?

The HUGE number of general units indicates to me that he's using a lot of convection heaters and heavy appliances (such as washing machines/dryers and water heaters) during the day rather than at night.
When they estimate the usage, they would estimate it based on normal usage (don't ask me how they determine normal usage), where most people would use more general units than night units. On my last (non-estimated) bill I used four times more night units than general units. Stretched out over five months, I would probably use less than 900 general units.