When I had teenogres in the house, I found sub-metering their bedrooms and setting an energy budget then docking their allowance for excess consumption soon made them realise that someone has to pay the bills.
I'm sure that the older one would have realised that he could run an extension lead from the landing and 'bypass the system' so I rewired their bedroom sockets with BS546 and put round pin plugs on all their electrical tackle.
Haha... needs must...
I think I'm giving the wrong impression here though. The family are pretty good with energy consumption tbh although I know my bills are a lot higher than most regular contributors. We've done a lot over the last year or two to reduce consumption but to continue with the reduction would mean asking them to scrabble about behind the tellies and computer last thing at night and first thing in the morning. I would probably do it to save a few more quid a month but I don't want to be a meanie and ask them. See, I'm a big softie 😂.
The low hanging fruit has been picked so as long as we maintain the savings then I'll be happy enough 😊
I'm an Eon Next dual fuel customer with no particular expertise but have some time on my hands that I am using to try and help out a bit.
I could tolerate a few odds and ends on permanent standby but coming in from work at 8pm to find the older one got in from school at 4, left the TV, Xbox, stereo and bedroom light and ceiling fan running and then gone out with his friends every day. The younger one wasn't so bad....at least he came in, switched all his clobber on then sat in front of it playing for four hours!
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.
I could tolerate a few odds and ends on permanent standby but coming in from work at 8pm to find the older one got in from school at 4, left the TV, Xbox, stereo and bedroom light and ceiling fan running and then gone out with his friends every day. The younger one wasn't so bad....at least he came in, switched all his clobber on then sat in front of it playing for four hours!
I was paying 4.5p a unit and no standing charges back then...2008 or so. And gas was 3p. But a 3 bed semi with two teenogres was costing about the same a month as I'm paying now 🤣
Rounded-up to 5p per unit to include your admin fees for ease of calculations when deducting from the pocket money 😉😂
Rounded up to the nearest whole pound. They used that much!
That's a good call, the cooker hood. But I just checked mine (18 months old) and it's LED already so nothing to be gained there for me. But swapping the fridge bulbs for LED saves a few pennies.
I thought about fridge lights. That would be a very long payback time. That said, I've just checked since typing the last sentence. When I opened the main fridge door the consumption only went up by about 2w. I had a butchers and it already has an LED so I think I might have done that when the bulb blew. When I opened the overspill fridge in the utility room the consumption increased by the predicted 25w. The door doesn't get opened for much more than a minute or two every day so I'll likely wait until the bulb blows. Mind you, the seed has been planted now so who knows 🤔
Aside from Estimated Annual Consumption there is also Your Estimated Annual Cost that shows at the top of your statement. I had my latest statement today and my total estimated annual cost is £3037.18. Subtract my credit balance of £665.85 and I get £2371.33 that I should need to pay over the next 12 months. That should come to £197.61 per month.
When I signed up to my current contract my DD was set at £197.15 so really close to what I work out it should be. My DD has just been increased to £215.09 from next week. My contract ends in June so presumably the extra bit is to ensure I don't owe them anything at all, and maybe even be in credit, when it ends. They can't look at the next 12 months payments as they don't know if I'll stay with them beyond June. It adds a new dimension when advising people how to calculate what their DD should be when they think they're being over-charged due to their DD being increased mid-contract even though they're in credit.
I guess we have to trust the algorithms they use to set the DD appropriately.
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