House & Home Shock Electricity bill

my electrical bill for a 1 bedroom unit came in at $499 for a quarter !!!!!

Couldnt believe it ...........Usually between $200 and $300

Rang Energy Aust only to be fobbed off with excuses and this was one

“ This time we read your meter .......usually we go off averages “.

I still cant see how it can be $499..... these people are robbers and thie8ves

I paid it when iwas promised a 17% discount on paying within 7 days but triple the price on my normal

 

They were using estimates at my house due to meter access and my having dogs. I submitted actuals and my bill catch up was almost $900. Last read saw it drop down again to about $300 again.

 

seem a lot for 1 room, but electricity has gone up around 15-20% this year but if you got solar then your feed in price also gone up to match so you got solar no electricity price rise.

 

Im shocked its been an hour and we havent had this thread derailed into a pun thread.

pinkboy

 

It's about time we saw some good conduct in threads like this.

 

Hes just keeping us up to date on current events

 

Check for faulty switches, we had power bills over $1,000 per qtr at our last place, I replaced a faulty light switch and they dropped to around $350 per qtr.

 

Sorry, I've been in meetings, too busy causing mayhem and averting disasters to get involved in derailments.

@geoffw @wylie - put me in the sin bin.

 

If you have an electric hot water system, check that hot water is not leaking from the PTR valve. This was the cause of a sudden marked increase in a electricity bill for a friend I have who lives in a one bedroom apartment. Fixed it by just manually exercising the valve a few times.

 

@MyDarlinghurst - Suggest you tabulate the last 3-5 bills. Seems to me they have been doing estimates all this time.... Is the current reading correct? If yes then I agree, they are doing catch-up.

 

Any chance you've bought a cheap heater from K-Mart recently?

 

We are the opposite. Had a few estimated bills then one for around $200 as we had obviously been overpaying.
Marg

 

2.4KW? thats bloody massive Our house consumes 0.5 - 1.0 for everything most of the time, each air con unit only throws another 0.2 - 0.3 on there most of the time. Our hot water seems to spike us significantly though (like an extra 3.5KW as soon as we turn the shower on) which is weird being that it's solar hot water.

 

We have it on 22 degrees on the thermostat, it's a split system (there are 5 seperate ones in the house). I don't know what power rating they are.

I only know how much power we use through the Tesla app.

I will whack it down to minimum temp tonight and check a before and after.

Of course it's open to interpretation as my PC is also always on and that can fluctuate and the Fridge Freezers can also fluctuate.

The tumble dryer consumes a lot but that is to be expected.

Through the night when just the always on things are running we sit around 0.4 - 0.5 KW, we don't even get through a full battery before the sun comes up again the next day. Unless it is a really bad day we don't really pull anything from the grid (we push plenty back to it though)

 

So this is my house about an hour ago, computer, fridges and routers are running oh and kitchen lights.

 

And this is right now, fluctuations are fridges and freezers kicking in and out, PC doing stuff, we are not home currently so this is just General stuff, TVs on standby, multiple pi’s running and stuff. lights outside are on sensors so they could be running and stuff.

 

Here you go mate, at home watching tv with lights and big size tv and everything on as a baseline, then I turned the aircon on at 16 degrees ie force it to run hard, waited 5 minutes to let the battery refresh it’s consumption over wifi. 500 watt difference (double than when we have it on 22 degrees) FYI it’s bloody freezing in here now but was worth it in the interest of science .