If you read my post immediately prior to yours, you will see I have given you a description of your 826 meter time code and explained that you have a non-domestic meter and a non Economy 7 tariff pattern.
Peak periods are daytime weekdays and your off-peak periods will be evenings and weekends, but I can't tell you what the specific hours for the periods are. As I say, it's a non domestic metering arrangement, not Economy 7!
In all likelihood, peak will be somewhere in the ballpark of 7am to 6pm Monday to Friday and off-peak will be anything outside of those times.
Now, if E.On next are billing you at an Economy 7 tariff then likely you will be rather better off than on actual Economy 7 as you have more off-peak than on-peak hours.
E7 is 7 off peak hours, seven days a week for a total of 49 hours, leaving 119 on peak hours. Under your metering arrangement, you are likely getting 55 on-peak hours and 113 off-peak hours, but that's just picking numbers out of the air based on my guess as to your hours.
Why this exists in what appears to be a domestic bungalow is a bit of a mystery, but there are a couple of plausible explanations.
1, A previous incumbent ran a business from the property and switched to a commercial tariff because the time pattern and tariff was more suited to their business usage.
2. I have seen this before. If the property was part of a development that was local authority owned or housing association or managed by an umbrella organisation, it could well be that a number of properties were 'pooled' onto a commercial setup. It may be that rents included utilities, but the management got a better deal on a group of properties under a business arrangement rather each property set up with an individual domestic account. If the rent's didn't include utilities, then the management would have been responsible for reading all the meters under their arrangement.
It would help further if you could provide the 2 digit supplier code. If this lies outside of the standard 10-23 range, then you do not fall under one of the regional DNO's but your setup was installed by a private/independent network or supplier. This would completely correlate with your 'out of the usual range' MTC code. This is the first two digits on the lower row of your MPAN number.
I am trying my best to assist here and I would be very surprised indeed if E.On Next could supply you with answers. They only do 'standard domestic' setups and anything else is outside of their scope or expertise. It may be that this supply has been inherited from one of any number of smaller or private suppliers that have gone bust or merged with other companies. The legacy information on non-standard arrangements would not have been inherited along with the customer base.
A photograph of the meter itself would also be useful. That may give me a little more insight.
To reiterate what @meldrewreborn said, neither he nor I have any 'official' connection with E.On Next. We both contribute where we can as unpaid volunteers. Young Mr Meldrew is a bit of a whizz at number crunching and logically worrying at a problem whereas I am rather more au fait with the technical aspects of electrical engineering. Between us and many of our other regular volunteers we chip in and offer suggestions or help where we can and I think I can speak for him when I say we both like to get to the bottom of these interesting mysteries!
Last edited by retrotecchie; 16-08-23 at 14:39.
Don't shoot me, I'm only the piano player. I DON'T work for or on behalf of EON.Next, but am willing to try and help if I can. Not on mains gas, mobile network or mains drainage. House heated almost entirely by baby dragons.
