If that was the case then your previous bill was little to nothing.
And that’s for 2 months! Damn, i pay nearly €150 a month for a family of 4 with very conservative usage here in Germany.
Not sure on your contract but I think when there is a price adjustment your can not accept the new terms and your contract ends. Maybe someone can clarify. But if so just switch providers and reject the new tarriff
Correction: 575% increase. From .086 to .495. If I hadn’t reduced my usage by half as I have done for this bill, the total would be 200eur+ and this is just a small amount of hot water for showers etc. Additional info for possible comments: this address is an apartment, in a block subject to hot water/heating being sourced through a district heating system whereby the hot water is boiled at one point in the building and then piped to each apartment. The owners management company (OMC) chooses this district heating company, in this case Kaizen. Alternative sources such as natural gas are not an option for residents. Only hot water for showers can be done alternatively through electricity in my apartment and this is an untried solution, this isn’t possible for radiators. I have contacted several of my TDs including Minister Eamon Ryan on the matter, and will be following up. It appears that the core issue is that these district heating companies can not buy gas in the same way that Bord gais energy, ESB, etc can and so have to buy it at the commercial rate. Commercial rate of gas, Kaizen says, used to be ~50% cheaper than than the standard domestic gas tariff, however this has escalated way out of proportion now to residential rates with the equivalent for BGE being around .14 from October 2022. This needs to be hammered home to your TDs and for whatever credits or other ameliorative proposals from govt that are being prepared now, that they take into account the specific situation that residents of these apartment blocks are facing.
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Im pretty sure if you switch you will get a much better unit price. Was looking for my parents recently and got 25c a unit from Airtricity. 50c a kwh is , even today , taking the piss ?
I think a lot of the replies aren’t understanding that this is just a heating bill. Or have I read that incorrectly? So this is basically just the cost of hot water for the last 2 months since I doubt you had the heating on very much.
You also can’t just “switch” provider in most of these cases. There is no other provider.
I recently moved into a building with these Kaizen crowd not knowing they were triple the price of other providers. The letting agent fully used them as a selling point because it’s supposed to be really efficient, forgot to mention we can’t swap and its way more expensive. Terrified to get our first bill. I will also be contacting TDs
Pretty much in the same situation. Combined with the bill I got from Electric Ireland the total for the utilities for the past 2 months is €585. It’s gonna be a rough winter https://i.imgur.com/FCo0Wsp.jpg
Awkward when Kaizen is the Japanese term for continuous improvement…
550% increase and its 122 euro???
Did they pay you to give you electricity last year?
We got hit with electricity bills of over €400 the last two we received up from approx €250-€280, so I’m lookin at putting as many solar panels on the roof as we can fit with the inverter and battery. If it works as advertised and as a friend who has the same setup explained, I’ll be selling the ESB my surplus electricity every 2 months and cashing their cheques in the near future.🤞
Mine for this bill period was €154.59. Two of us – just putting the water on for hot water to have showers. Probably stick it on for an hour every other day.
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550% increase?
If that was the case then your previous bill was little to nothing.
And that’s for 2 months! Damn, i pay nearly €150 a month for a family of 4 with very conservative usage here in Germany.
Not sure on your contract but I think when there is a price adjustment your can not accept the new terms and your contract ends. Maybe someone can clarify. But if so just switch providers and reject the new tarriff
Correction: 575% increase. From .086 to .495. If I hadn’t reduced my usage by half as I have done for this bill, the total would be 200eur+ and this is just a small amount of hot water for showers etc. Additional info for possible comments: this address is an apartment, in a block subject to hot water/heating being sourced through a district heating system whereby the hot water is boiled at one point in the building and then piped to each apartment. The owners management company (OMC) chooses this district heating company, in this case Kaizen. Alternative sources such as natural gas are not an option for residents. Only hot water for showers can be done alternatively through electricity in my apartment and this is an untried solution, this isn’t possible for radiators. I have contacted several of my TDs including Minister Eamon Ryan on the matter, and will be following up. It appears that the core issue is that these district heating companies can not buy gas in the same way that Bord gais energy, ESB, etc can and so have to buy it at the commercial rate. Commercial rate of gas, Kaizen says, used to be ~50% cheaper than than the standard domestic gas tariff, however this has escalated way out of proportion now to residential rates with the equivalent for BGE being around .14 from October 2022. This needs to be hammered home to your TDs and for whatever credits or other ameliorative proposals from govt that are being prepared now, that they take into account the specific situation that residents of these apartment blocks are facing.
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Im pretty sure if you switch you will get a much better unit price. Was looking for my parents recently and got 25c a unit from Airtricity. 50c a kwh is , even today , taking the piss ?
I think a lot of the replies aren’t understanding that this is just a heating bill. Or have I read that incorrectly? So this is basically just the cost of hot water for the last 2 months since I doubt you had the heating on very much.
You also can’t just “switch” provider in most of these cases. There is no other provider.
I recently moved into a building with these Kaizen crowd not knowing they were triple the price of other providers. The letting agent fully used them as a selling point because it’s supposed to be really efficient, forgot to mention we can’t swap and its way more expensive. Terrified to get our first bill. I will also be contacting TDs
Pretty much in the same situation. Combined with the bill I got from Electric Ireland the total for the utilities for the past 2 months is €585. It’s gonna be a rough winter https://i.imgur.com/FCo0Wsp.jpg
Awkward when Kaizen is the Japanese term for continuous improvement…
550% increase and its 122 euro???
Did they pay you to give you electricity last year?
We got hit with electricity bills of over €400 the last two we received up from approx €250-€280, so I’m lookin at putting as many solar panels on the roof as we can fit with the inverter and battery. If it works as advertised and as a friend who has the same setup explained, I’ll be selling the ESB my surplus electricity every 2 months and cashing their cheques in the near future.🤞
Mine for this bill period was €154.59. Two of us – just putting the water on for hot water to have showers. Probably stick it on for an hour every other day.