when I get up my smart meter says that I have already spent £1.50 when the usage rate is only 8p per hour! nothing comes on in the night that would warrant a huge increase in cost! Does anyone know if it adds the standing charge overnight?
The standing charge appears on my IHD in the small hours of the morning and shows over £2 by the time I get up.
the standing charges (combined Gas and electric - EPG) might be £5-£6 per week, so less than £1 per day.
Current Eon Next and EDF customer, ex Zog and Symbio. Don't think dual fuel saves money and don't like smart meters. Chronologically Gifted. If I offend let me know by private message, but I’ll continue to express my opinions nonetheless.
Add on the background usage through the night, the hour of water heating in the morning and the fact I’m not a really early riser and I’m greeted with about £2.40 on my IHD.
I have submetering on several of my power circuits, so can measure consumption of my nighttime 'background loads'. Between about midnight and 8 am, two freezers and a fridge, the landing light and the small items like charging phones, topping up the laptop, the router etc. set me back around 4kWh, or roughly £1.40. With the standing charge added on, a couple of quid showing on the IHD come breakfast o'clock is not at all unreasonable.
Last edited by retrotecchie; 03-11-22 at 13:44.
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.
In the interests of energy efficiency and me getting a half decent night's sleep (ha, fat chance) I no longer leave the light on all night, but now have a plug in motion sensitive night light on our very small landing. Rather than have a constant low-ish light on all the time, I now have a cold white LED that just irritates me on an irregular basis due to random nocturnal movements of the dogs and her indoors. It's a constant reminder that I really should invest in a 'round tuit' and get round to hanging a few internal doors.
Might keep the 'planes out, too, come to think of it...
I've never lived in a house with no internal doors before. We now switch lights on and off as we move around the house, whereas we used to use lighting to make the house look homely regardless of rooms being occupied or not. Flo Soap liked to leave the bedside lights on in the evening because it looked nice, even though we were downstairs... and that was before I fitted LEDs practically everywhere.
To illuminate the way between rooms, we leave an LED 5W table lamp on in a room off the landing and in a room off the hall. 10w total for a few hours in the evening in the interests of safety sits well with me.
This place hadn't been occupied for nine months before we moved in. The original doors were taken off their hinges to allow lifting of floorboards upstairs in order to provide access for new heating pipework and electrics. It all went right down to the wire with the works and we needed to be in by Christmas so they left the doors off for me to rehang at my leisure. The old doors are now shelves in a shed. I bought new doors in January...just haven't done 'em yet!
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