Another massive Electricity Bill

How do your current usage figures compare with those for the same period in previous years?

With regards to the bill you posted you seem to be getting a discount of 5.5% which is the Electric Ireland regular discount rate. Their current discount rate for new customers is 30%. You should be speaking to EI to see whether you can be put on their 30% discount plan & failing that you need to switch supplier as soon as you can.

TBH, 1st thought that crossed my mind when I saw 1400 units usage, was someone's running a grow light or 5 😉

Yes

Now, not everything has a plug clearly - storage heaters, immersion, hob/oven, showers being the main ones. But if its something with a plug this should let you find it.

There's something very wrong here, I wouldn't be focusing on the cost - I know that's an issue, but it's getting to the root of why so many Kw are being used will solve that. 340 night rate units used over 65 days is 5.2 Kw per night. I'm on the low end of usage but today for instance I used 6kw which covered cooking dinner, running the washing machine and the tumble dryer, immersion on for 45 mins as well as smaller items such as lights and TV.

To be using 5kw per night means something with high energy usage. To use 16Kw per day as your bill would average out at would be both of you taking a 15 min shower using electric shower, running the cooker, dishwasher, multiple washes in the washing machine and throwing on a tumble dryer for a couple of hours every day.

I would wonder if your meter is hooked up to another apartment as well as your own.

Try a first principles, logical approach.

Turn off everything you're aware of (including lights & fridge/freezer & chargers & anything on standby) and look again at the meter that "should be" yours. The wheel should be stopped but I suspect it won't be. Then turn on an electric kettle to see if the wheel either starts to turn or speeds up considerably. If the kettle has an effect then you'll know that your apartment is indeed connected to that particular meter.

If it's definitely your apartment's meter but it's still turning when all your stuff is off then I think there are 2 possibilities -- either something else is connected to your meter, thereby drawing extra current, OR there is a fault that is drawing current but not tripping anything. In both cases you need an electrician to verify.

The discounts can be signed up for in less than 3 minutes and will bring immediate 25%+ savings. SSE seems to offer the best option currently.

Then the OP has to put a reminder on their phone to switch again next August and again the following August. I'd be switching immediately as in this morning and get that really easy element of a large saving out of the way now. Looking at the previous payments by the OP, there is something wrong here.

€50 us no longer a barrier to switching early, but it's worth keeping an eye on the t&c 's around cashbacks as I think EI have a claw back clause in their contracts.

Im in the same boat op. My new bill came in for 380 euros. And we were away for 2 weeks out of the 2 months!! Im going to have a look at my meter. Also im going to cut down the electric shower usage. Kids are always in it.

To be honest I don't think the average consumer will know what that is.

Is his biggest concern the high consumption figure? I have reread his posts & I can't find any reference to his consumption increasing. I haven't seen a comparison with his consumption for the same/similar billing period for the previous years. So has his consumption increased or are the higher bills simply a combination of multiple price increases & the poor discount plan he is currently on.

You have lost me I'm afraid. Please clarify.

Electric shower is a massive user of energy. Its about 8 units per hour. A 10 minute shower will cost you 1.5 units. At 30c a unit inc vat, that almost 50c per shower per day.

And everyone should double check that they are getting a 25%-35% discount on standard rates. If you have not negotiated or changed supplier in the past 12 months it will take you 3 minutes to save hundreds. All you need is mprn number, bank details and meter reading.

Sorry but none of that makes sense or has any semblance of reality about it.

8.63 c/day and only applies to Electric Ireland; and its gone now anyway.

Before putting a permanent dehumidifier, a router, remote heating and lighting controls etc in a holiday house I had to pay it... for a single bill til I decided to never use EI there again! Daily usage is now high enough even when I'm not there.

With standard day/night meters the NightSaver tariffs apply between midnight and 9am during Irish Summer Time & 11pm to 8am during winter time.

https://www.electricireland.ie/news/article/all-you-need-to-know-about-the-nightsaver-meter

Not if they're not heating it they shouldn't. Nothing wrong. Just not turned on.

True. Regardless of plans their night units alone are higher than our daily usage. Something is in somewhere, there's an issue with the meter or somebody else is benefitting. Even then, as it's summer with no heating, it doesn't explain the usage.