Are my charges for Economy 7 night rate correct, even though it's switched off?

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Have tried to explain econ 7 registering 1 unit per night when no econ 7 on  does yours register 30 odd units per month when no econ 7 switcehed on?

Firedog last sent to you when reading my meter the econ 7 reads one unit per night use when all off does yours?

Firedog as you have econ 7, when you go away for hols do you switch off econ 7? And if so does yours register any units? I do but it then clocks up about 30 units for that month even though no ele tric being used. I have paid over £150 for econ 7 over 12 months and it has not been switched on at the wall. 

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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Hmm… Just a bog-standard Five Terminal Economy 7 Meter from Horstmann (now Secure).

This does mean that all usage from anything on the property during the E7 Off-Peak hours is recorded to the cheaper Off-Peak rate, so it will often clock usage even if the storage heaters and immersion heater are shut down.

I note however, that it’s getting a bit old and the Certification may have expired. A lot of meters over 10 years old are up for Re-Certification and have to be replaced at that point, so you may want to get it replaced. The easiest way to arrange that is via https://smart-booking.ovoenergy.com .

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