I'm with power ni and I've just got my yearly statement. £1566 on electric for 2 adults and 1 child in a 3 bedroom house 🤢 last year we used £821. Nothing has really changed, apart from a baby monitor, we've actually been actively trying to cut down our energy usage! Sockets are always turned off, tv is rarely on, our oven is oil. We've swapped all bulbs for more energy efficient ones.

It just seems insane to have doubled almost. Can any one relate or shed some light why? First picture is 2024 and second is 2025.

by Kayls_33

23 comments

  1. The unit price is practically the same. Did you use a similar amount of units?

  2. id be looking for the source of that and I’d be starting with the immersion and tumble dryer.

  3. Mins goes up from £900 one year to £1.2k the next, we have had a 10% increase this year

  5. OP this is super suspicious, I would be checking to see has a neighbour wired in to your property to be stealing your power.

  6. Missing from the images and the description: where you charged on actual reads or estimate reads?

    If you were on estimates for a while and NIE finally got a reading, if you’ve used more than what was estimated you can see bills like this. 

    Then there’s general usage. Be honest with yourself and what you’re using. Eg; using an electric heater for an hour a day? Ack sure it’s only an hour. 

    But it’s not. It adds up, quickly and significantly. 

  7. PowerNI offer a smart meter that lets you use the app to track your current usage, id advise you get this installed, turn off everything in the house and get your base reading, then start turning things on one by one to see how much usage they use on their own, this way you’ll know what electronics use more electricity and can turn them on/off accordingly. It’ll also mean if you have everything turned off and you’re still using a high amount then there’s something within the house that you are not aware about that’s using electric. To give you an idea with everything in my 3 bedroom house turned off with the TV in standby with only the Wifi Router, CCTV cameras and fridge on, I use 1P per hour, and with the TV on (75″ with power saving disabled) is around 20/25P per hour. The Washing machine uses the most in my household.

  8. Time to ask for a meter test from your supplier. If that’s not it, your neighbours are stealing your electricity.

  11. Ur rate is 30p. If your rate wasnt 15p last year then ur not being charged double ur just using fuckn more elec crafty

  12. For my 3 bed semi the past year was:
    🔆 **Day Cost (Energy Only)**

    £225.24

    # 🌙 Night Cost (Energy Only)

    £316.22

    # ⚡ Total Energy Spend

    **£541.46**

    **These prices are ex vat, i used chatgpt to analyis the bills. Also night use is charging my electric car.**

    **But I am a real weirdo about saving energy.**

  13. This resonates with me, my July usage was double the previous year ..i rang them asking could they at least point what I may have used to double the units . In the summer months I couldn’t understand it . No immersion ..less heating /cooking / lighting …the only extra that I used was a fan for a short time as we had warm weather . I thought something wasn’t right

  14. Either something has been left on that shouldn’t have been or you are running something superheavy.

  15. Holy crap that’s a lot of electricity. We’re 2 adults in a big house who both work from home full time and our electric bill is max £170 a quarter.

  16. I’d blame the baby. That’s a massive change in your household since last year. Eg – more likely to have the heat on to keep comfortable temperature, SO MANY loads of washing, tumble dryer, possibly parental leave meaning there’s someone in the house using electricity more often, extra cooking or heating during weaning, another room in use, lights etc during night feeds, if bottle feeding sterilisers, warmers, an endless supply of boiling water. Those cute little bundles of joy sure do suck up all your disposable income in amazing and unexpected ways.

    But to be fair, I’m averaging £80 a month, and we’re in a 5 bed detached with a lot of children. So, it’s definitely a high bill, but consumption change isn’t surprising in that case.

  18. I used to work in customer care for a supplier. Anytime you got calls like this, 9 times out of 10, they’ve just had a baby in the past 6-12 months.

    Either that or they mention they bought a few tropical fish tanks they leave on all day and you just face palm, In your case it’s the former lol.

  19. This last 2 month bill we paid £401.20 for 1467kwh. Both work from home

  20. Averaging 13kwh a day, that would be like boiling a kettle for 6 hours solid a day.

    Do you drink a lot of tea?

  21. Have you had any building work done (semi) recently?

    Rewires a house years ago, guy called me after 9mths, said I fucked something up, he’d got his first actual bill (not estimate) and the numbers just didn’t add up to what his usage was before the rewire was done.
    Now given it was a TT system I scarpered up there in a hurry, as if the RCDs had failed and there was a constant live to earth leakage, it could easily account for an increased usage amount and alot of liability on my part (both financially and life or death)

    What did I find you ask? This prick, giving me so much hassle about my “dodgy cowboy electrics” had insulated his roofspace himself in order to cut down on costs! The cockwomble had left 2 x painters stand lights (2 x 250w halogens each!!!) going full tilt for 8mths in his roofspace, having forgotten to turn them off when he was done!!!
    1kw/hr x 24hrs x 8mths is over £1700 in todays money, can’t remember what it was then but still alot.

    Cunt didn’t have the good grace to apologise for blaming me

  22. Ok. So did you actually make that many top ups? As in did you actually spend that. There’s a chance someone is using your top up account. You can apply the codes to any meter. I’m sure you would have noted week on week if you were buying more top ups. Is that the case?

    I’d first check your metre to see if you actually used 5000kwh.

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