Smart meter readings issues

joeirish

The ESB have recently launched their website app for electricity usage for those with smart meters. It shows a graph for both electricity used and electricity exported every half hour. There is also a spreadsheet that can be downloaded again showing half hourly usage. Energia who are my suppliers also had a graph to show half hourly usage wit different colurs for the different tariffs. But when I pointed out some errors they changed it so that it only shows total usage wiht no half hourly breakdown. However they have a spreadsheet you can download showing the half hourly usages.

BUT...

Both spreadhseets show different figures for the same time periods regardless of what day I compare. So either the ESB data is wrong (which apparently is what they get from my smart meter and send to Energia) or Energia is using some other data to calculate my electricity usage. I have emailed both and they are apparently looking into it. Just wondering if anybody else has compared their suppliers reckoning of usage with the usage shown on the ESB Networks website. And are they the same?

Thanks

10-10-20

Can you screen-shot the sheets and show us the differences? I'd be interested in seeing all of that.

joeirish

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119969303#Comment_119969303

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119969303#Comment_119969303

Hi

I've sent you two spreadsheets via DM. Let me know if you can read them and what you think. Cheers. Joe

eeepaulo

I found the same, i also switched last month so have figures from SSE BG and ESB for these dates

Bord gais and SSE are identical, ESB is about double (and wrong)

joeirish

So it looks like I found the reason. Energia provide their data as kilowatt hours (kWh) and the ESB uses kilowatts (kW). And as I understand it 1 kWh = 1 unit so this is used to calculate how much we are charged. Not sure what the ESB app is useful for. Realtime usage but one or two days out of date!!

sirmixalot

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058274919/smart-meter-readings-issues

What's the website address for this, If you are with another provider (Energia) can you still see your usage?

joeirish

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119974873#Comment_119974873

Hi the ESB website is https://www.esbnetworks.ie/

You'll have to create an account the first time and then you log in an choose My Energy Consumption. The Energia website no longer shows usage for the different tariffs. I've attached the current screen grab from Energia. As you can see it used to show the amount used in the different tariff bands but since part way through September this had dissappeared and all that is shown is the total amount used in grey.