Reply To: Extraordinarily high power bill

[Ian McChesney]

Hi Panapa
I think you have a significant issue with the accuracy of the power bills because most of them are estimates.

The power bill from the previous property is also not a good guide because the first reading on 17/4 was actual but the next reading on 16/5 was an estimate.

On the current property the reading on 6/6 was an estimate, 10/7 was an estimate, 15/8 was actual, and the latest 12/9 is an estimate. So it’s really difficult to work out what is going on (but does explain why the readings from each of the two meters were the same on some of the bills – the power company just being lazy with their estimates).

I note that the actual reading on the 2nd meter on 15/8 was less then the estimate on 10/7, so hopefully they got a discount on that part of the bill for July/Aug.

In terms of analysis of consumption I would suggest that you get the family to record their meter readings every day (at roughly same time) over the next week or so to get an idea of actual use at this time. From the power company you should also get a period of use between two actual readings as the basis for some analysis of usage patterns.

Best wishes
Ian

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