Electricity bills - Page 2

GCfromVC wrote on Wed Jul 15, 2020 8:22am:

I agree.....the bill's are a lot more expensive than in the UK and like other members on here it is important to pick the right tarif. It's just a different system than in the UK where you have to pick the supply you want taking into account the appliances you use and at what time of the day you ...

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...use them.

I have the night tarif with iberdrola rated at 5.75 KW as that suits me. Dishwashers, washing machine all used on the night when possible but not  necessary due to the size of my supply.

I suspect that the majority of your bill is made up of standing charges.

I will look at another supplier when I'm a resident to save any potential hiccups that could happen.

Ray wrote on Wed Jul 15, 2020 9:47am:

Yes if I was their permanently I would probably think of changing tariff  my bills are not that high I can live with that it’s the amount we pay when we are not their bugs me.we never asked for a smart meter so why should I pay for it and if they are not paying someone to read the meter th...

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...ey are gaining both ways same argument with the U.K. really.sorry to go on worked in the industry 43yrs 20 Nationalised 23private take it from me better run when country run it. Take care.

jimtaylor wrote on Wed Jul 15, 2020 4:55pm:

Have you any idea what a smart meter costs? The minimal amount paid in meter rental will never enable Iberdrola etc to recoup the capital cost of installing them.

Ray wrote on Wed Jul 15, 2020 5:16pm:

No idea Jim And Frankley don’t give a Dam they are making enough money as are the U.K. Companies No meter reader no vehicle to bring Meter reader So no maintenance fuel or vehicle purchase Or servicing far less administration costs to produce invoice no postage costs less staff  they would...

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...n’t provide Smart meters if no financial gain .one thing I can say in favour of U.K. companies they are more professional in getting your supply back on when thier is an outage have had a lot more power cuts in Spain than U.K.

Tony810 wrote on Tue Jul 14, 2020 10:03am:

Hi,

We changed our gas and electric to a company called Alterna and it is much cheaper

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Www.alterna-energisation.com

Or www.alterna.es

 We did ours in the Phone Warehouse in the Boulevard, they did it all for  us There is a phone warehouse in Santa pola

It’s now all done online.

Ray wrote on Tue Jul 14, 2020 10:52pm:

Hi Cheryl 

 Thanks for letting me know about the time switches. We only use our apartment about12 weeks a year so I reduced our potencia a 3 years ago to 3.5KW I think it’s tripped twice no problem though.i just thought the costs were a lot when were not thier, saying that we have not been out since ...

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...January we turn the Electric off when we come home but my bills are still approx €20 a month which I still think is a lot compared to our U.K. bills.take care.

Mary1961 wrote on Thu Jul 16, 2020 11:26am:

We've just had bill for 34 days , we have not been there and it is 17€. We think that's very reasonable

Ray wrote on Thu Jul 16, 2020 12:56pm:

Just had ours yesterday €17.58 supply is turned off Potencia 3.5kw 14th June to 13th July 30days with Iberdrola not a lot  but with smart meters where is the saving to customer companies making a fortune. Take Care.