Electricity bills

[oliveview01]

Hubby read today in Diario de Sevilla that electricity bills are going back to every other month. Will make a few folk happy. We have never really had bills vastly over estimated, they have been pretty close to the real reading (we have something on the pc, put in reading and amount comes up, so we always know where we are with the electricity and water)

[gerryh]

My meter is read every other month, consumption is estimated for the other month.
So if we go to paying every other month will it coincide with the meter reading month or the estimated month?
Cheers
Gerry

[oliveview01]

No more estimated only a bill for when the reading is done, but we are talking electricity company here, so who knows!!

[gus-lopez]

Perhaps we'll get the meter read now then ! 9 Months since the last time someone came ! Hasn't been any good since 2007 when they subbed it out to a service company.

[Jool]

Its all a ridiculous waste as when the digital meters come in they will know the elec consumption automatically.....no need for a meter reader

[Beachcomber]

The consumption on my last bill but one was estimated at 993 kWh at €0,142319kWh amounting to €141,32. My latest bill has been calculated from the last real reading at €0,143882 kWh but the consumption for the estimated reading has only been compensated at €0,142319. According to my calculations Endesa has defrauded me to the amount of just under €2.

Taking into account the cost of making a lengthy 902 call to an obstructive call centre operator in Latin America it is not worth challenging but if they have done the same thing with the bills of several million consumers across the country it adds up to a nice little extra profit for the month.

[El Cid]

Maybe I'm missing the point but all three figures for the unit costs are the same.

Sid

[Enrique]

One of the figures is/are different........

[El Cid]

I must clean my glasses!

Sid

[Beachcomber]

Yes I did make a mistake on one of the figures although it was different from the other two. I have now corrected it.

[fyfin]

Hubby read today in Diario de Sevilla that electricity bills are going back to every other month. Will make a few folk happy. We have never really had bills vastly over estimated, they have been pretty close to the real reading (we have something on the pc, put in reading and amount comes up, so we always know where we are with the electricity and water)

We never see an electricity bill but hopefully will sort that out when we are over in February. Seems no address was entered when we bought the apartment. The other thing is that we don't get to see our meter either as it's in a communal room and we have no key, so we don't get to check anything. I don't think anyone has a key as it is a services room. Again I will check when we are over but I wonder if this is normal for apartment blocks. There are only 31 apartments in the building so it is not a big block.

[Beachcomber]

It seems that by virtue of a resolution on 30th December the TUR cost per unit went up to €0,152559 per kWh on 23rd December until 31st December when it then went back down to €0,142319 per kWh at which price it will remain for the first quarter of 2012.

I assume that the charge shown on my bill of €0,143882 is probably as a result of the cost per kWh being averaged out over the entire period taking into account the changes in the tariff rather than showing x number of units at one rate and x number of units at another because they wouldn't have known what the meter readings were on the relevant dates.

Why would they put the price up for nine days? I think I must have got hold of the wrong end of the stick but I can't see where. If anyone can enlighten me from the information contained in this resolution I would be very grateful.

Revised electricity prices

[metalmonkey]

we are on a private line which is now illegal, we pay 19 cents PKW. we did get scraps of paper with a bill on and a total consumption figure, no start or end number. There are 12 of us on the line and everyone knows that the guy who owns it is 'ripping off'. We have had high tension wires in for nearly two years with the promise of 3 phase and a move to Endessa (paid for by the town hall with a contributions from each neighbour) BUT we have to have the low tension wires in and to do this all users have to agree to a 'project' to get a quote and then agree to pay...so we wait!

[chrissiehope]

Hate to say this metalmonkey, but if you haven't even got to the quote stage, then it's going to be several years

When we bought in 2006, the project had already been approved, but we didn't actually get connected until Feb 2009....

[Lyric]

As one who lives hand to mouth I view bi-monthly billing with some trepidation.
I have never seen it mentioned so the answer is probably no but is there no system for the bills to be averaged over the year and to elect to pay a fixed amount each month as in the UK if desired ?

[El Cid]

As one who lives hand to mouth I view bi-monthly billing with some trepidation.
I have never seen it mentioned so the answer is probably no but is there no system for the bills to be averaged over the year and to elect to pay a fixed amount each month as in the UK if desired ?

I don't know about Endesa but Iberdrola certainly do that scheme. They are easier to deal with than Endesa so it might be worth switching over to them.

Sid`

[Lyric]

Thanks Sid, I'll look into it, search as I might I have yet to find a question you don't know the answer to.