Smart Time of Use tariffs

I'm still struggling to work out how people are using so much electricity that their current bills are well over £100 a month!

My own bill is a lot less than that and yet, as I say to my OH, if a light is on it doesn't matter if you're a single person on your own or a family of 5 you're still using the same amount of electric to light that lamp! Same for using the cooker, it doesn't matter if you're cooking a meal for a full household or just one person. If the cooker is on for an hour then it's on for an hour. Again, same with the TV etc doesn't matter if it's one person watching or twenty!  The only difference I can work out is perhaps the washing machine having to wash more clothes and I guess heating more hot water? A friend of mine tells me that his mate's electric bill was over £350 for the month but again I have to ask, how is he using that much in the first place? Surely it's time for him to reconsider his consumption of electricity? Do they have all their lights on 24/7? 

It can only be heating Lisa. If you're all electric and especially if you've taken out those old fashioned storage heaters and replaced them with the modern, green digital, internet enabled 100% efficient day rate panel heaters. Or tumble driers if you haven't got a garden.

The other way to think about that is to take that  however many hundred per month, divide by the no of hours in a month (about 700 depend on the month  bit ) and compare to the cost per kWh.

so £350 month ->> 50 pence per hour

But  one unit is about 30p under the current cap here as reverse calculated from £1000 for 3100 kwH per year (so much easier if they gave a per unit rate).

So these folk average about 5/3 of a kW (1,6kW ) non stop - between 6 and 7 amps of steady load equivalent at 230v.
Quite possible with immersion heating water and electric room heat. And a lot of folk do stupid things like heat the house and open a window.

M

The other way to think about that is to take that  however many hundred per month, divide by the no of hours in a month (about 700 depend on the month  bit ) and compare to the cost per kWh.

so £350 month ->> 50 pence per hour

But  one unit is about 30p under the current cap here as reverse calculated from £1000 for 3100 kwH per year (so much easier if they gave a per unit rate).

So these folk average about 5/3 of a kW (1,6kW ) non stop - between 6 and 7 amps of steady load equivalent at 230v.
Quite possible with immersion heating water and electric room heat. And a lot of folk do stupid things like heat the house and open a window.

M