Are my charges for Economy 7 night rate correct?

This depends an awful lot on what meters you have and how they’re wired up, which is why no-one can make any meaningful suggestions until we see your setup. 

I think it’s most likely that all usage during off-peak hours is being recorded on the off-peak register, whether it’s from your E7 circuits (feeding the storage heaters and immersion heater) or not. One unit a day while you’re not at home doesn’t sound unreasonable; it’s equivalent to one 40-watt bulb being lit all the time. Add together fridges, freezers, fire alarms, security lights and all the other stuff that’s still running even though you’re not at home and it’s not an unreasonably high level of consumption. Remember you’re paying around £15 a month in standing charges, so a monthly bill of £30 amounts to a constant consumption of 20W. It doesn’t get much lower than that.

I switched all my E7 gear off a year ago, just after I’d had new consumer units installed. At the time, I was on a fairly reasonable fixed-price deal, but that came to an end in January this year. At that point, I switched from an E7 tariff to the single-rate one. If you’re able to do this, it would save you a lot of money if you’re not taking advantage of the cheap rates for heating, but you’d have to dream up some other way of staying warm next winter. I have a wood-burning stove …

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I thought the 5th terminal on these was a timed feed Blastoise? Although I can’t see anything off and so it would have some consumption anyway

So the question still is if as can be seen in pictures, the switches are off, should my meter still register 1 unit per 7 hrs overnight? Or is this normal? If so i am paying nearly £ 10 plus vat. But as i also pay extra on normal for economy 7 then i am being charged for the priviledge twice.

also my normal appliances do not change to economy 7 overnight because they would register more than 1 unit. Economy 7 as was uses diferent sets of wires for overnight usage.  I wish there was a meter that put all onto cheep rate so when up early then would not pay day rate during night.  

It has just had its 5 year inspection, he agreed no readings should register

So i just keep paying them £10+a month for nothing then?

I thought the forum was for customers to aske each other? Seems you are the same as ovo and are not trying to understand my problem, do you give a massively rich company money for nothing then?

Yes, that’s what we see in the CU where everything’s off. But there’s a clock in the meter itself that switches between registers at the appropriate times.

You’re not giving us all the details; you said that while you were away, you were clocking up 1kWh per day. I tried to explain that that was quite a reasonable consumption level when (almost) everything’s switched off. Now you’re saying that you’re clocking 1kWh overnight while you are at home. That again is reasonable; on top of the background usage that’s always going, there’s all the stuff that happens overnight when you’re at home: lights, chargers, TV and Xbox on standby, bedtime drinks, early morning tea … the sort of thing a smart meter would be able to help you pinpoint.

What you’ve told us indicates  that being on an E7 tariff, all your usage in off-peak hours is being charged at the off-peak rate regardless of whether it’s on the heating E7 circuit or not. Blastoise explained it pretty clearly: “Only one rate can be clocking usage at a time, not both. Anytime the Night Rate register starts spinning around midnight, the Day Rate register stops spinning. And when the Day Rate register starts spinning at around 7am, the Night Rate register stops spinning.“ By the way, the register switch happens at the right time to the second. If there is a breaker that makes sure your E7 gear is off during the day, it won’t turn on precisely at midnight; it could be at any time within the first ten minutes or so. This is to ensure that a whole town’s storage heaters don’t switch on at exactly the same time, because if they did, something would blow up. 

Thanks for the pictures, by the way - they’re helpful.

With the greatest respect @Turnip if you just want somebody to agree with you, the best place is social media not this help group. All we have tried to do is offer solutions, some from experience, others from what’s been seen before over many years. It sounds like we cannot help you unfortunately 

I'd also like to add that we do extensive research all the time, even calling on outside experience and experts in some cases.

We've answered a lot of Economy 7 related questions and we know them well, I myself having answered a ton of them.

It's very rare that we get it wrong, but all three of us are highly confident of our advice in this particular thread. 

Ok so if i go on a smart meter and it does not show up econ 7 usage then i will hold you responsible for all the years of being charged for no electric being used. At least if i keep my meter i have proof.    Ihave suggested they send someone out completely seal off econ7 and come back in a weel to see if i am correct, they wont do it.

Most E7 systems actually work that way - it’s only the wiring circuits that determine what is available off peak. If you’re not using off peak then you’re better off asking to be put in a standard non E7 rate