iberdrola electricity charges - Page 5

Can anyone help me navigate to the 3.45 plan? I've signed up online, an am following the 'Discover your plan' option. I'm walked through questions about how often I use, and then presented with Winter Plan (or Stable plan depending on how I answer the questions). 

I'm then prompted to contract this service. 

Nowhere do I see an option for 3.45 (is this expected usage?) 

Any help appreciated. 

Email them and tell them you want a 3.45kw plan (I was an existing customer on 5.5kw and they reluctantly dropped me to 3.45kw....they don't like it!!

No, not expected usage. The 3.45 you're referring to (I think you mean 3.3 kw) is the maximum power you can be drawing at any one time. Draw more than your contracted maximum and the meter will trip out.

What folks are telling you is that your bill will be less if you contract for a lower maximum than you currently have.

This is true to a limited extent, but I would first want to know that I was going to save enough on my bills to warrant the reduction. 3.3 kw really is rather low when you consider that, for example, if you have the kettle and the toaster  on at the same time, you could be up close to that total draw, without anything else you might have on in the way of lights, heating, oven, tv, etc, etc.

I have spoken to a lot of people who find that 3.3 just isn't enough these days, even for a holiday home. We are on 5.75 kw maximum draw, and we never trip out.

I recommend that you first ascertain exactly HOW MUCH you will save by reducing your maximum. It has NO bearing on how many units you use, or the price per unit. To help you, I have uploaded a snapshot of my bill for April, so that you can calculate what you would pay on 5.75.

Geoff.

They said you wouldn't be able to run everything on the 3.45 is that right

Thank you. I'll try that. 

Thank you. I'll try that. 

Thanks  very much  for the information

Hi I know you wrote this quite a while back but pleased can you confirm if your bill is 25-30 euros when you are there using electric or when your place is empty.  Just asking as I have just got my first bill and I was only over for 9 days and don't have a washing machine/tv/radio/iron nor did we have any water on for all the time we were there (just moved in) so in all just a cooker, fridge, usual charging of phone and lights. Bill  is 42 euros when I've calculated what this would be a month I've got it to around 130 euros ( a lot when you think no washing machine/TV nor any hot water or showers.   At this rate it is going to be worth having an apartment, not had a water bill yet!!!!  All advise much appreciated.

Mine is around 25ish euro per month when empty.

I have just spent 3 weeks there and my bill for that period was 61e. Of that monthly billing period I was there for 18 days. I had 2 AC units a couple of hrs a day. There are 3 of us. So water heater ,washing machines, 2 tvs, cookers etc. I was surprised how low it was. This summer has been hotter than normal and I don't usually need the AC on. Was expecting a lot bigger bill. AC units are cheaper to run then I thought

We very a 3 bedroom house no pool.

Monthly bill is around 20-25 euros when empty, around 40 euros when we were there for three weeks in a billing period with using washing machine, air conditioning, water heater, TV and kitchen equipment.