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Originally Posted by nito
Not to probe too much, but you did say $6k for the year to heat a 2-bed flat in the past tense which would make you an extreme outlier before the recent price rises and interventions. The average dual-tariff for a house in the summer was $2.2k. That isn’t to downplay the seriousness of the sudden increase in energy costs (and the impact on households and businesses), but distorting the average position is not helpful.
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Im not lying Nito, because I was moving out -end of tenure- our outstanding bill for the year was well over £4K (not counting the £107 monthly we already paid). This made it well over $6K dollar-wise - I can get screen shots if you wanna.
As mentioned we are of course contesting it, although my main worry is the little heater our Greek flatmate had on for about 10hrs a day for months, might have somehow made this possible -about 20 years ago we were quoted £5 a day to run one of those things, nowadays would be worse of course. He's since measured the output and is adamant although high, it can't be
that high. We've got our hopes pinned on it being a wrong reading, though the readings we sent in each month to the former company (that went under with the fuel crisis), and that they ignored apparently, may count against us.
We've since heard a couple of other people on the estate are seeing similar bills, so not sure what's going on. I sometimes wonder if we are doing that thing where we're paying off the debt from previous tenants, though the other housemate's been here for a decade and does this final tally every time someone moves out.
The more worrying scenario is that the new company (OVO btw) has tallied up a years unpaid energy, and set it to the rate at the time (rather than measured from rates before, theyve added it between our last ignored reading to the current month in one go). This was calculated before the cap of course.
Long story short we (may be) paying an entire annual bill, but set at the highest rate, without a cap. But I honestly hope to God it's a read error -either way we have grounds to contest it.