And since I moved out and turned off everything, it went up €50 in 5 days. 🥳 I emailed [cru.ie](https://cru.ie) about it since I tried calling and emailing Panda to no avail
Something is very wrong here, my 2-bed apartment (electric heating) bill for 2 months would rarely be over €200, even in winter. The current readings are actuals so it’s not an estimate issue.
My December – Feb for a 2 bed duplex was €390 – my highest ever electricity bill, not even estimated!
Absolutely bonkers that it’s gone up about 45% YoY for the same usage basically.
You’ve used nearly a years worth of electricity there in 2 months, what are ye growing?
I called them there out of interest and there was literally no waiting time before I got onto a human being.
Growing weed?
Charging an EV?
Crypto mining rig?
Running tumble dryer for every single wash?
Is there something plugged in or turned on 24/7 somewhere that’s eating juice?
Is this common? (I’m trying to find out everything before our move next year. I’m sorry to ask so many questions all over this sub. Just don’t want to be ignorant or burdensome when we get to Ireland. Y’all have already been so patient and kind)
The crazy thing is that these are actual readings. If that’s true and not a mistake on the bill, the meter recorded this usage. Both the previous and latest are listed as Actual.
I have a three bed that doesn’t even have a BER rating and it’s 135 month for both gas and electricity (albeit only me) what you are paying us insane / have you asked your land lord ? . I have a fixed rate with my provider that changes every 4 months – used bonkers to switch.
That’s all good but do let us know if the harvest turns up good.
Turn off everything in apartment and see if meter is still turning
Your day time tariff is 10c per kwh higher than it should be. Move to a different company every year, they do all the work amd you will get a new account offer of 16c per kwh. That 10 c drop per kwh would make your bill at minimum 220 euro cheaper.
Over 2 months in a 3 bed house we use 1400kwh. 720kwh of this is for a mining rig.
Storage heating is a killer if it’s on during the day so check that first.
Your unit rate is about 10c above the normal!
Yeh your problem is your with panda power, absolute cunt of a company.
Christ. We’ll be going back to candlelight if this keeps up
Don’t worry,every thing will be grand sure aren’t we getting a 100 euro off the gubberment
I got a similar bill last year, but to be fair the previous months had been estimated and I reckoned they’d underestimated the previous then hit us.
I lived in a two bed 70sqm apartment. Building built in 1997. Ground floor, above a car park, and cold as fuck. And I got that bill despite it still being cold as fuck. So even spending 800 euro on heating (mostly) still wasn’t exactly balmy.
Don’t use a nightsaver plan when most of your usage is during the day!
28% discount?? Where 😆
You were warned about leaving the immersion on 🤦
Is your landlord’s name starting with Y and ending with e? Are you based in a town starting with H and ending with N? If so contact me asap, i’m the previous tenant and your landlord is taking you for a ride.
I was always told this is what would happen if you left the immersion on
Aside from the fact there is something mad happening with your usage,
Your rates are absolutely extortionate, go to switcher.ie when your contact is up in march and change provider.
I plugged in your current supplier, night saver meter and average usage and it came back with electric Ireland energy saver 26.
12 month contract, 19c day rate 9.3c night rate including VAT. That’s a fair saving over what you’re on now….
No idea why you have a night saver. If the units are correct (it even the ratio) it would be much better to be on a single tariff rate.
I think mine is 18cent a unit. If you were on that your unit price (before standing charges) would have been €574 vs €705 you were charged.
So much for the government giving everyone 100 off their bill.
Mine was €376 for a 2 bed apartment too over same period and before that I paid about €100 for a few months. Overall for the year probably around €1K total
How many Christmas trees did you have?
Turn off all electrical appliances? Happened to mate, turns out it was the fridge. Had malfunctioned.
A bit late to the party, I’ll add my two Eurocents. As far as I can tell, the bill is for three months, not two, so the average is under 300 per month. I used to pay around 400 per month for a 2-bed Celtic Tiger apartment in winter months, which was so poorly insulated that we were running the storage heaters and extra electric heaters 24/7. That was 7 years ago, when electricity was far cheaper. We also had a timer on our boiler that would allow us automatically heat water in the afternoon as well, to do the dishes in the evening. Based on the structure of your power consumption, I’d assume a mix of storage heaters charging during the day and immersion left on for a little too long.
Turn off every single thing in your apartment and see if your meter is still moving. If it is, get an electrician in. They can see exactly where the draw is from.
A neighbour growing weed tapped into you lighting circuit in their floor?
I’d say you have storage heating and Esb time clock is set wrong
I own a four bed cottage in Mayo, €75 a month. It’s not a modern warm place , just central heating (Kerosene) which is €200 pm.
I’m not sure I’m any better off than you provided that panda bill covers heating.
4 bed converted stone cottage…..oir Christmas bill was 268.90. That is just madness
Got a similar bill myself. I don’t see a discount on your bill. This happened me. I was out of contract and the 41% discount dropped off my bill. If I resigned back up, a smaller discount was retrospectively applied.
Try that.
Best of luck
I think something like this is happening to everyone, my mam is just after getting a 5k bill for the past 6 months. They’ve sent her a bill every month and she’s payed it, dunno what’s going honestly
I live in a 4 bed house with my dad and our electricity isn’t even a quarter of that. There’s definitely some dodgy wiring in your apartment mate
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Estimated for a while ?
Panda Pounded
And since I moved out and turned off everything, it went up €50 in 5 days. 🥳 I emailed [cru.ie](https://cru.ie) about it since I tried calling and emailing Panda to no avail
Something is very wrong here, my 2-bed apartment (electric heating) bill for 2 months would rarely be over €200, even in winter. The current readings are actuals so it’s not an estimate issue.
My December – Feb for a 2 bed duplex was €390 – my highest ever electricity bill, not even estimated!
Absolutely bonkers that it’s gone up about 45% YoY for the same usage basically.
You’ve used nearly a years worth of electricity there in 2 months, what are ye growing?
I called them there out of interest and there was literally no waiting time before I got onto a human being.
Growing weed?
Charging an EV?
Crypto mining rig?
Running tumble dryer for every single wash?
Is there something plugged in or turned on 24/7 somewhere that’s eating juice?
Is this common? (I’m trying to find out everything before our move next year. I’m sorry to ask so many questions all over this sub. Just don’t want to be ignorant or burdensome when we get to Ireland. Y’all have already been so patient and kind)
The crazy thing is that these are actual readings. If that’s true and not a mistake on the bill, the meter recorded this usage. Both the previous and latest are listed as Actual.
I have a three bed that doesn’t even have a BER rating and it’s 135 month for both gas and electricity (albeit only me) what you are paying us insane / have you asked your land lord ? . I have a fixed rate with my provider that changes every 4 months – used bonkers to switch.
That’s all good but do let us know if the harvest turns up good.
Turn off everything in apartment and see if meter is still turning
Your day time tariff is 10c per kwh higher than it should be. Move to a different company every year, they do all the work amd you will get a new account offer of 16c per kwh. That 10 c drop per kwh would make your bill at minimum 220 euro cheaper.
Over 2 months in a 3 bed house we use 1400kwh. 720kwh of this is for a mining rig.
Storage heating is a killer if it’s on during the day so check that first.
Your unit rate is about 10c above the normal!
Yeh your problem is your with panda power, absolute cunt of a company.
Christ. We’ll be going back to candlelight if this keeps up
Don’t worry,every thing will be grand sure aren’t we getting a 100 euro off the gubberment
I got a similar bill last year, but to be fair the previous months had been estimated and I reckoned they’d underestimated the previous then hit us.
I lived in a two bed 70sqm apartment. Building built in 1997. Ground floor, above a car park, and cold as fuck. And I got that bill despite it still being cold as fuck. So even spending 800 euro on heating (mostly) still wasn’t exactly balmy.
Don’t use a nightsaver plan when most of your usage is during the day!
28% discount?? Where 😆
You were warned about leaving the immersion on 🤦
Is your landlord’s name starting with Y and ending with e? Are you based in a town starting with H and ending with N? If so contact me asap, i’m the previous tenant and your landlord is taking you for a ride.
I was always told this is what would happen if you left the immersion on
Aside from the fact there is something mad happening with your usage,
Your rates are absolutely extortionate, go to switcher.ie when your contact is up in march and change provider.
I plugged in your current supplier, night saver meter and average usage and it came back with electric Ireland energy saver 26.
12 month contract, 19c day rate 9.3c night rate including VAT. That’s a fair saving over what you’re on now….
https://switcher.ie/gas-electricity/comparison/electric-ireland-energysaver-26-electricity-nightsaver-urban-direct-debit-online/?years=1
No idea why you have a night saver. If the units are correct (it even the ratio) it would be much better to be on a single tariff rate.
I think mine is 18cent a unit. If you were on that your unit price (before standing charges) would have been €574 vs €705 you were charged.
So much for the government giving everyone 100 off their bill.
Mine was €376 for a 2 bed apartment too over same period and before that I paid about €100 for a few months. Overall for the year probably around €1K total
How many Christmas trees did you have?
Turn off all electrical appliances? Happened to mate, turns out it was the fridge. Had malfunctioned.
A bit late to the party, I’ll add my two Eurocents. As far as I can tell, the bill is for three months, not two, so the average is under 300 per month. I used to pay around 400 per month for a 2-bed Celtic Tiger apartment in winter months, which was so poorly insulated that we were running the storage heaters and extra electric heaters 24/7. That was 7 years ago, when electricity was far cheaper. We also had a timer on our boiler that would allow us automatically heat water in the afternoon as well, to do the dishes in the evening. Based on the structure of your power consumption, I’d assume a mix of storage heaters charging during the day and immersion left on for a little too long.
Turn off every single thing in your apartment and see if your meter is still moving. If it is, get an electrician in. They can see exactly where the draw is from.
A neighbour growing weed tapped into you lighting circuit in their floor?
I’d say you have storage heating and Esb time clock is set wrong
I own a four bed cottage in Mayo, €75 a month. It’s not a modern warm place , just central heating (Kerosene) which is €200 pm.
I’m not sure I’m any better off than you provided that panda bill covers heating.
4 bed converted stone cottage…..oir Christmas bill was 268.90. That is just madness
Got a similar bill myself. I don’t see a discount on your bill. This happened me. I was out of contract and the 41% discount dropped off my bill. If I resigned back up, a smaller discount was retrospectively applied.
Try that.
Best of luck
I think something like this is happening to everyone, my mam is just after getting a 5k bill for the past 6 months. They’ve sent her a bill every month and she’s payed it, dunno what’s going honestly
I live in a 4 bed house with my dad and our electricity isn’t even a quarter of that. There’s definitely some dodgy wiring in your apartment mate