2000 eu bill for 2 months

pipina

HI lads,just want to cry as i got my last e bill 1987 euro for 2 months usage,my normal bills are arround 140/160 euro,is it actualy possible that 3 bed house has usage of 11230 kw in 2 months?there was kango used 1 day when fire place was repaired bud otherwise normal usage.please will some 1 help me?yhank you :mad:

micar

pipina wrote: »

HI lads,just want to cry as i got my last e bill 1987 euro for 2 months usage,my normal bills are arround 140/160 euro,is it actualy possible that 3 bed house has usage of 11230 kw in 2 months?there was kango used 1 day when fire place was repaired bud otherwise normal usage.please will some 1 help me?yhank you :mad:

Did you submit a meter number recently?

Check the current unit usage on the bill against the unit reading on the meter itself. If there is a error, the contact your electricity company.

Bruthal

Seems unlikely that sort of usage is correct in a standard house.

Almost looks as if a decimal place is wrong in the meter reading or something. Were the 1/10th units read as units by mistake?

It is possible that if the last few bills were estimated then, you might have been under-charged till now. If the current bill is one that was from a reading not estimated.

PrzemoF

Check if the meter matches what is on the bill.
Check meter on the previous bill or two.

Do you have electric heating? I can't imagine anything else using enough energy to make a bill like that.

Quick calcs shows that you'd have to have 8kW connected 24/7 for 2 months. It is impossible, so it must be a billing issue.

PrzemoF

PrzemoF wrote: »

Check if the meter matches what is on the bill.
Check meter on the previous bill or two.

Do you have electric heating? I can't imagine anything else using enough energy to make a bill like that.

Quick calcs shows that you'd have to have 8kW connected 24/7 for 2 months. It is impossible, so it must be a billing issue.

Something is definitely wrong. Either this bill is way too much or your last few have been way too low. Checking your meter should tell you.

pipina

Hi thank you,there was no mistakes made as i reporting every 2 months amount of kw online,i contacted airtricity and they said that everything looks correct,what should I do now?

pipina

I am not use eletric heater or anything like this,

SCOOP 64

Has to be something wrong €2000 for 2 months, 3 bed house.

brightspark

It is possible, but highly unlikely..

11230 units is a little less than leaving an electric shower running 24/7.

How does the reading you took for the bill compare to your current reading?

micar

Do you have an online account? If so, check the previously submitted readings.

Something is wrong and like the other poster, a digit seems to have been added making the bill 10 times what it should be.

It's very easy to submit a wrong meter. I did that with my gas bill and it came in a €600. I got the correct units used and sent it in and a revised bill was issued.

You need to have a look at the actual meter outside your house.

pipina

that is reading history,i thing the first number just flip on

Reading
24hr Z00006820 31 Mar 2014 Customer 49367 kWh
24hr Z00006820 25 Mar 2014 Customer 49315 kWh
24hr Z00006820 23 Jan 2014 Customer 38542 kWh
24hr Z00006820 27 Nov 2013 Estimate 38022 kWh
24hr Z00006820 20 Nov 2013 Customer 37937 kWh
24hr Z00006820 21 Oct 2013 Actual 37576 kWh
24hr Z00006820 27 Sep 2013 Estimate 37428 kWh
24hr Z00006820 20 Sep 2013 Customer 37342 kWh
24hr Z00006820 27 Jul 2013 Estimate 36672 kWh
24hr Z00006820 20 Jul 2013 Customer 36591 kWh
24hr Z00006820 27 Jun 2013 Actual 36323 kWh
24hr Z00006820 25 May 2013 Customer 35805 kWh

pipina

,only electric we use is light,1 pc 1 laptop,wash mashine ,back boiler pump whitch is on thermostat and i know when is on,and oil heating,whitch is on for 30 min every morning,otherwise gas hob oven +maybe some ironing and usual home work arround,im realy done...

glenkeo

hi hope these fig stay in there rows it looks like the reading on 25/3/14 is 49315 should be 39315.

DATE DAYS BETWEEN READINGS METER READING UNITS USED UNITS PER DAY
31/03/2014 6 49367 52 8.666666667
25/03/2014 61 49315 10773 176.6065574
23/01/2014 64 38542 605 9.453125
20/11/2013 30 37937 361 12.03333333
21/10/2013 31 37576 234 7.548387097
20/09/2013 62 37342 751 12.11290323
20/07/2013 23 36591 268 11.65217391
27/06/2013 33 36323 518 15.6969697
25/05/2013 0 35805 0 0

.G.

Yeah looks like you read it wrong or submitted it wrong on the 25th of March.Nothing could use that sort of juice in 2 months. Got a pic of the meter reading right now?

Your meter readings up to then show your usual usage,if your usage habits haven't changed your consumption won't have either.

Wildlife Actor

Go up into your attic and check if you have a few hundred potted plants that you didn't know about, and a dude sitting in the middle of them.

pipina

no ,i check many times ,number is correct ,it looks like first number flip from 3 to 4 ,

.G.

Maybe you're reading the second digit as a 9 instead of a 0. Other than that I can't see how your usage increased so much if you haven't used anything you don't normally use.

pipina

no,same usage

pipina

http://postimg.org/image/xlu26xe8j/

Jimdagym

Pippina, were your readings from May 2013 to Jan 2014 estimated?

micar

could be a fault with the meter?

Could it have gone from 38999 to 49000 rather and 38999 to 39000?

micar

could be a fault with the meter?

Could it have gone from 38999 to 49000 rather and 38999 to 39000?

pipina

No i always sending actual mumbers,what should i do now?

Doolittle51

It's simply not possible to use that much electricity without noticing. 10000 units in 2 months is the equivalent of having more than 3 electric heaters on 24 hours a day.
I guess it could be a faulty meter. The meter is the property of Electric Ireland. You could get in touch with them to see if such faults ever occur. They have a forum here, one of the reps might look into it for you:
http://www.boards.ie/ttforum/1349

pipina

thank you for help

makfli

April to January last year my average usage per day was 20 units ( 3 bed bungalow). I queried with Airtricity and they tell me the average consumption per household is 10/12. I now take readings daily to build a database and I have my average down to 14/15 I think mainly because I changed out approx. 50 x 12v halogen down lighters to LED. However average still too high and I cant pin down where it is going.

SCOOP 64

makfli wrote: »

April to January last year my average usage per day was 20 units ( 3 bed bungalow). I queried with Airtricity and they tell me the average consumption per household is 10/12. I now take readings daily to build a database and I have my average down to 14/15 I think mainly because I changed out approx. 50 x 12v halogen down lighters to LED. However average still too high and I cant pin down where it is going.

Dishwasher/Washing machine?
My Dishwasher broke, i didnt get it fix for a 3/4 months ,this did make a difference, but some people say this wont make much difference , but wrong, if on once day, Dishwasher fix now but do hand wash more often to keep bill down.

pipina

in my case we talk about minimum of 190+kw p/day,

PrzemoF

kW - unit of power indicating momentary electrical power usage. i.e. a kettle has power of 3kW

kWh - unit of energy usage i.e. I used 200 kWh last month.

A 1 kW device switched on for one (1) hour uses 1 kWh of energy

A kettle of 3kW power switched on for 2 hours 6 kWh of electrical energy and so on.

I guess you wanted to say 190 kWh per day, so 190 kWh / 24 h gives 7.92 kW of electrical power.

It's roughly the same as an electric shower - it would have to be running non-stop to clock 190 kWh per day.

Have you tried to contact your electricity provider and make a complain that the meter is broken and it went from 38999 to 49000 instead 39000 kWh?

bodhi085

Are you sure the rest of the neighbourhood isn't hooked upto your meter!

pipina

yeap thats what i want to say,my reading meter jump in two months for 10890 units...looks like first number turn from 38999 to 49000,i hope they will accept complain..

893bet

Def a meter issue. Even if you look at the last week (25th March to the 31st march) then the usage has normalized with only 52 units used over that period.

Fred Swanson

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Bruthal

PrzemoF wrote: »

kW - unit of power indicating momentary electrical power usage. i.e. a kettle has power of 3kW

kWh - unit of energy usage i.e. I used 200 kWh last month.

A 1 kW device switched on for one (1) hour uses 1 kWh of energy

A kettle of 3kW power switched on for 2 hours 6 kWh of electrical energy and so on.

I guess you wanted to say 190 kWh per day, so 190 kWh / 24 h gives 7.92 kW of electrical power.

It's roughly the same as an electric shower - it would have to be running non-stop to clock 190 kWh per day.

Have you tried to contact your electricity provider and make a complain that the meter is broken and it went from 38999 to 49000 instead 39000 kWh?

Maybe the mrs likes long showers.

pipina

man from esb give new meter reading...waiting for resolution,airtricity send remainding to pay bill,

frankmul

Make contact with airtricity about why you can't pay and what is happening. They can insist the esb networks disconnect you for non payment and the esb networks hands are a kinda tied. They will have to disconnect. If you are talking to them, there is less risk of this happening.