Electricity costs - your estimates
21 April 2010, 08:50 PM
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Electricity costs - your estimates
OK I rent an office consisting of 2 rooms.
1 room is very rarely used and has 1 small PC computer in it that is on 24/7/.
The other room has 3 desks that are used 10am-6pm 5 days a week with the occasional weekend.
The rooms are heated by gas not by electricity.
The only lights ever used are 3 small desk lamps and 1 low power halogen stand based light. The overhead fluorescents are only turned on when the office is cleaned once a week.
There is a small electric water heater on the wall for the sink. Aside from that there are 4 other PCs in use when the office is occupied.
What are you best guesses for what the annual electricity bill should be on a place like this?
This should be interesting as you may guess I think I may be paying rather a lot.
1 room is very rarely used and has 1 small PC computer in it that is on 24/7/.
The other room has 3 desks that are used 10am-6pm 5 days a week with the occasional weekend.
The rooms are heated by gas not by electricity.
The only lights ever used are 3 small desk lamps and 1 low power halogen stand based light. The overhead fluorescents are only turned on when the office is cleaned once a week.
There is a small electric water heater on the wall for the sink. Aside from that there are 4 other PCs in use when the office is occupied.
What are you best guesses for what the annual electricity bill should be on a place like this?
This should be interesting as you may guess I think I may be paying rather a lot.
21 April 2010, 11:22 PM
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Dunno. But if you think there's a problem get one of these ... http://www.amazon.co.uk/Efergy-Monit...1888436&sr=1-1 ... and check out your exact usage.
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22 April 2010, 09:13 AM
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I would think your costs should be very low.
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22 April 2010, 09:53 AM
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My estimate would be £1757.60
I've also had problem with shared meters in business premises before.
Dispute the bills, its what I did and it went very well indeed. . . . .
I had paid ~£1200 over a 9 month period and the leccy Co said I owed a further £300 making it £1500 over the 9 months. This was after I had moved out of the business premises. Eventually (6 months later) I had a letter at my home address from this electric company. I opened it expecting to see I still owed them money, but instead it was a cheque from them to me for nearly £1400
Thats more than I had paid them. The letter said something about reading the wrong meter in error 
Cheque banked and cleared ok too
I've also had problem with shared meters in business premises before.
Dispute the bills, its what I did and it went very well indeed. . . . .
I had paid ~£1200 over a 9 month period and the leccy Co said I owed a further £300 making it £1500 over the 9 months. This was after I had moved out of the business premises. Eventually (6 months later) I had a letter at my home address from this electric company. I opened it expecting to see I still owed them money, but instead it was a cheque from them to me for nearly £1400
Thats more than I had paid them. The letter said something about reading the wrong meter in error Cheque banked and cleared ok too
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