gas usage doubled to 24,000kwh

[Susan H]

i had always worked around 12,000.
24,000 is the figures on my bills consumed.
i have spent ages going through them and adding up in a spreadsheet.
it went wrong in 2020 when they put in a weird estimate which suggested I would use 85,000 kwh per year!
so the "estimate" has been wrong ever since so difficult to gauge plus increased unit rates
however, i have now been through my "actual use" and it is adding up to over 24,000KWH.

 

[Susan H]

i had always worked around 12,000.
24,000 is the figures on my bills consumed.
i have spent ages going through them and adding up in a spreadsheet.
it went wrong in 2020 when they put in a weird estimate which suggested I would use 85,000 kwh per year!
so the "estimate" has been wrong ever since so difficult to gauge plus increased unit rates
however, i have now been through my "actual use" and it is adding up to over 24,000KWH.

hi
what is the digital meter calculation please.

 

[Chuck]

1.7 units x 2.8 x 1.02264 x39.1 /3.6 = 52.86 kwh

The factor '2.8' should not be in there. Maybe your boiler was running for 2.8 hours on the day in question? i.e. 52.86kWhr is the average usage over one day?

 

[Last Plumber]

sorry, yes only that gas appliance. Electric oven and hob.
does that usage sound alot for 45 mins for that boiler?

I had used following reading 4229.941 -4228.664 = 1.277 for 45 mins
or 1.7 units per hour
1.7 units x 2.8 x 1.02264 x39.1 /3.6 = 52.86 kwh
calcs from Octopus energy

thanks

I don't know what that 2.8 figure is for?

If you are converting from an imperial meter which measures cubic feet, then the conversion is not 2.8, it would be
0.0283168 (0.028 for short/ease).

 

[Last Plumber]

I think you have maybe written the calculation down incorrectly?

 

[Last Plumber]

So it used 0.52Kwh?
Agree?

 

[Last Plumber]

Maybe they have taken a reading thinking it was meters when in fact it is feet?

 

[Last Plumber]

There are 35.31 Cu feet in a Cu Meter

 

[Susan H]

hi
what is the digital meter calculation please.

someone may have hit the nail on the head!

bill says for 39 days
consumption 149.6 units (100s of ft3)

then there is the calculation 149.6 x 2.83 x 1.02264 x39.1 = 4701.2
4701.2 kwh used

but if my meter is digital (reading for example 04229.941m3)
does this mean they are converting a m3 reading which is already in m3 ? do you think?

 

[Chuck]

does this mean they are converting a m3 reading which is already in m3 ? do you think?

That explanation fits the information you have given us.