I need help as I think my usage is excessive

Yes, that looks like nonsense. Contact Support and ask them please to recalculate your charges based on the readings you’ve given.

A rogue figure seems to have crept in for 4 October; can you see it on your meter readings history page?

Hi, i have these which shows it jump up on the 4th and then returns to normal on the 16th.

Contacted ovo and they have said they will look into it.

Quite clearly looks like theres a mistake but been a couple weeks now and still can't get an answer from them and keep requesting payment 

Thanks. I suggested you look at the meter readings, not the usage pages. Something has prompted the system to start estimating usage, and it’s probably a rogue figure around 4 October. 

If they keep demanding payment, I think the process is to contact the Collections team (0800 0699 9831) to get them to stop while Support are finding out what happened.

Hi sorry, 

Just looked at meter readings and lots seem to be missing 

Hey ​@Rebecca1983,

Welcome to the community! 

As ​@Firedog has said looking at your meter readings really helps us understand what’s happening. It looks like prior to the 31st of October the readings were infrequent and at some point your billing has fallen out of line. It should be an easy fix and our Support Team will raise a billing case for you to have this corrected. 

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Keep us updated once they’re raised this for you and how things progress. 

Very roughly 1m³ is 11.2 kWh, so the 83 m³ is around 930 kWh. Reasonable.

Working backwards 1474 kWh on the 7th (the lowest of the spurious readings) is around 131 m³ or 5.5 m³/hr. Given that the maximum flow rate of the gas meter is probably 6 m³/hr that is some demand!

I am always dismayed when I see software systems managing to churn out such obviously incorrect data. You would hope that if data was so far different from the norm it would flag somewhere.

I've had a new  combi boiler installed and new central heating system. I used to have oil central heating with an old.combi boiler. My current gas usage is huge last.month alone it was 5300 kw an that 1 month my heating is on roughly 6 hours a day 3 hour in a morning and 3 in an evening with the thermostat set to 16 so it is not.on all the time. I don't know what to do. I do live in an old stone house with minimal insulation but I do have double glazing. Can anyone help ?

Can you mention the make of the boiler, temperatures set for heating and hot water (if you can tell) and any other relevant details.. no of radiators, size of house etc?

Hi the boiler is a ideal heating logic combi esp1 30 we have 10 radiators house is a semi detached stone cottage 2 large bedroom 1 small upstairs and and entrance hall with 2 large rooms either side and a 1 story extension on the back with a kitchen and bathroom. Current timers set for weekends 8am till 10am and 1.30pm till 7pm as we have a 4 year old and week days 6.20am to 8.30 am then 2.30pm to 8pm thermostat is.never put above 17 degs boiler floor temp for heating  is set to 60 and water to 55