Recent large electric bills

[Landrover]

Can anyone help, recently have had a very large electric bill for my house, says using 30+kWh a day all that's on permanently is a modern style immersion tank and general household use, I have a 4kwh solar panels on the roof and I'm wondering if they could be causing it ? Could something have gone wrong to cause a higher meter reading ?

 

[Nick.]

We had a run of some crazy bills to the house.
Couldn’t understand it all.
Eventually we tracked it to a faulty freezer.
It seemed to be running permanently.

 

[f0ster]

get your self an immersion heater controller, it will only use your own generated electric for the immersion unless you override it with the boost button

 

[Exfarmer]

Can anyone help, recently have had a very large electric bill for my house, says using 30+kWh a day all that's on permanently is a modern style immersion tank and general household use, I have a 4kwh solar panels on the roof and I'm wondering if they could be causing it ? Could something have gone wrong to cause a higher meter reading ?

Firstly, do you monitor the usage by reading and submitting your readings?
How does this compare historically?
Do you use just electric for heating etc?
We use 78 kwh daily on average, but I expect that this is mainly in the winter. I do have a fairly large house though but also 7.8kwp of solar

 

[Y Fan Wen]

Start reading your meters daily, both incoming and exporting and see if that tells you anything.

 

[wilber]

we had an issue with our immersun (i think it was called that) the magnet had cracked in half (whether that was to blame i dont know) it was using grid energy when it was supposed to be using solar. I switched it off and problem solved, would of taken it up with the installer but they went pop about a month after it went in.

 

[Dry Rot]

One time I was getting big bills from British Gas. But I caught them, demanded proof, then changed my supplier. I hate liars.

 

[upnortheast]

Read the meter for 24 hours with the immersion off then 24 hours with it on.
Then turn off the solar panels for 24 hours & read meter again
Might give some clues

 

[steveR]

we had an issue with our immersun (i think it was called that) the magnet had cracked in half (whether that was to blame i dont know) it was using grid energy when it was supposed to be using solar. I switched it off and problem solved, would of taken it up with the installer but they went pop about a month after it went in.

Don't they always....

Immersun went the same way too, but they re-launched as you probably know.