My apartment is on electricity only! why my electricity heating using 10KW to run in 50 minutes! It cost me 4£ to run for only 50 minutes!
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High electricity usage - what could it be?
Best answer by M.isterW
Updated on 18/08/25 by Ben_OVO
If your property runs purely off electricity and not gas, then you may have electric heating / radiators, possibly storage heaters, and maybe an immersion tank to heat the water. A lot of this sort of kit can use a lot of electricity, especially if it’s quite old. If you’d like tips on the most cost efficient ways to use your appliances, it's worth doing a quick Google search of ‘energy saving tips in (your local area). You should find that there will be organisations who will offer this sort of advice, often for free. You may also be able to get this advice from your local council.
If you’ve got a smart meter The ‘Usage’ pages of your online account / app are really useful to see what times of the day your electricity usage is highest, which helps you to get an idea of what is causing the higher usage. For the most accurate data you’ll need to have your smart meter set to send us half-hourly meter readings. Below are guides for changing your smart meter reading schedule online, and using the ‘Usage’ pages 👇
You have something that's heating the water that feeds the radiators, likely an electric boiler. You probably have a hot water cylinder heated by an immersion heater.
To reduce the cost of your hot water you can find a tariff that offers cheaper electricity at certain times (normally overnight) and use a timer on your immersion heater.
Reducing the cost of your heating is harder because it doesn't look like you have any way of storing the heat. If you can find your boiler and tell us what it is we might be able to suggest some options.
+8Are you seeing that on your In Home Display ? Can you post a photo please. What hot water and space heating appliances do you have ?
+8Can you say what your heating is please ?
+8Heat pump ? Storage heaters ? Infrared ?
+8So are you on an Economy 7 type tariff ? If so the idea is to charge them up during the cheap hours (usually a 7 hour block at night) then they emit the stored heat during the day. Your display shows a time of 13:12 which suggests they are using electricity at the peak rate. I think they do have a setting for giving a boost of heat but that’s going to be expensive to run. Can you post a photo of one of your heaters? How many do you have?
+8- Super User
Storage Heaters are really expensive to run during the day. You might want to make sure it is only running during Off-Peak hours. Don’t run them at 1PM in the afternoon or your electric bills will absolutely rocket!
+8- Super User
I’m pretty sure that’s not a storage heater. Is there anything else in the house that could be using a lot of electricity perhaps?
+8- Super User
Then it’s not a storage heater. Something else is chomping on your electricity supply
+2Can you change your display to show kW? If your tariff information is held correctly it should show about 13kW when your heating is on (or whatever it is that's using so much electricity).
If it is 13kW that's a lot of heating power. Your picture shows a radiator with water pipes running to it but you said it's cold. What do you have in the property that's hot? Any other heaters? Do you have a hot water tank? Is there a boiler in a cupboard somewhere?
+8What are your bills like
+2There's something in the house (probably some sort of boiler or heaters) that's using the electricity. We're just waiting for
there is no any other heaters just radiators each room, water is running on electricity , when im switching on the heating its showing me 9,5 KW of usage when im switching on the water then its even more around 13KW in an hour
meybe there can be some issues with boiler or smart meter? i really dont know , heating is running maximum 3 /4hour a day and im paying more than 500£ each month
+2Updated on 18/08/25 by Ben_OVO
If your property runs purely off electricity and not gas, then you may have electric heating / radiators, possibly storage heaters, and maybe an immersion tank to heat the water. A lot of this sort of kit can use a lot of electricity, especially if it’s quite old. If you’d like tips on the most cost efficient ways to use your appliances, it's worth doing a quick Google search of ‘energy saving tips in (your local area). You should find that there will be organisations who will offer this sort of advice, often for free. You may also be able to get this advice from your local council.
If you’ve got a smart meter The ‘Usage’ pages of your online account / app are really useful to see what times of the day your electricity usage is highest, which helps you to get an idea of what is causing the higher usage. For the most accurate data you’ll need to have your smart meter set to send us half-hourly meter readings. Below are guides for changing your smart meter reading schedule online, and using the ‘Usage’ pages 👇
You have something that's heating the water that feeds the radiators, likely an electric boiler. You probably have a hot water cylinder heated by an immersion heater.
To reduce the cost of your hot water you can find a tariff that offers cheaper electricity at certain times (normally overnight) and use a timer on your immersion heater.
Reducing the cost of your heating is harder because it doesn't look like you have any way of storing the heat. If you can find your boiler and tell us what it is we might be able to suggest some options.
yeah i got electric boiler but thats strange as all other neighbours who lives next doors and got same electric heating are paying twice less than i do
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