Electric bill

[hughnique]

Finally had a call from EDF last week, the lady I spoke to was very sympathetic and said it was ridiculously high, anyway she said I could do a test on the meter, by turning everything off and then pressing the button twice, at which point I would see if the meter was registering any stray consumption. Tried that, firstly my meter has 2 buttons a +, and a -, pressing these only gave me a lot of figures as to the type of meter and the date and time. So Christ knows where this is going, I can't begin to fathom out where we get a doubling of the both HC and HP within a two month period, it surely has been a pretty mild winter, sure a few cold days but nothing exceptional. I can foresee that they will show me the bill again and request payment.

[RobertArthur]

@ Hughnique, turning everything off is a no current flow situation. Measuring nothing, or a stray current to somewhere else. See this diagram, easy to measure. More difficult is the calibration of meters, are they telling the truth. Not yet mentioned by the EDF lady.

[Hotrodder]

And they try to frighten us by setting high charges for a meter test that turns out there is nothing wrong.

[RobertArthur]

@ Hotrodder, hence my suggestion to experiment with a load of approximately known power, everything else switched off, for one, two or three hours.

[Liz]

We had our annual EDF bill today with the adjusted payment and a new payment calendar for the coming year. All reasonable considering in November we switched from oil to pac air to existing radiators - so no oil tank to refill and used more leccy.
I haven"t got around to linking our Linky meter to our EDF Espace Client to do daily checks. I see some of you do check daily, is this how you do it or is their another way? Our Linky is not in a convenient place for peering at every day

[L Austin France]

We had our annual EDF bill today with the adjusted payment and a new payment calendar for the coming year. All reasonable considering in November we switched from oil to pac air to existing radiators - so no oil tank to refill and used more leccy.
I haven"t got around to linking our Linky meter to our EDF Espace Client to do daily checks. I see some of you do check daily, is this how you do it or is their another way? Our Linky is not in a convenient place for peering at every day

Do it every week otherwise you'll end up a nervous twitching wreck every time you switch the kettle on.

[Liz]

I'm not the twitching type

[Doug]

We ignore all offers as our yearly EDF costs are below € 1000 well below the average according to EDF.

[Lori]

Our Linky is connected to our Espace Client and yes, that is how we check our daily use. And I do check it just about every single day, especially in Winter.

[A.N.Other]

I hadn't realised it had got so expensive in France, could be worse though I guess, you could live in Italy!
I won't comment on the price in Spain

https://tradingeconomics.com/france/electricity-price

I don't have an official Smart meter but do have my own with which I can observe usage in real time and it easily paid for itself in the first 2 or 3 months.

https://geotogether.com/product/minim-led/

I only pay for what actually use, no standing charges or the like. The downside is that I have no option for day/night rates etc, it's flat rate only and currently I pay €0.39/kWh.