Would anyone kindly help with converting a very old imperial meter reading to kwh please?

Hi @newjerseyminx , we won’t be able to check your region as no one here has access to your account but it should be in the data from National Grid somewhere. The daily cv values are used rather than just a specific days value so it’s a little more complicated 

Hi.  Many thanks for that.  I have just emailed the National Grid to seek clarification on the region that West Sussex falls into.  I have also found an interesting document online from Ofgem that suggests that energy suppliers are provided with what is an average of all the daily calorific values for them to use for billing purposes  (see link)

https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/sites/default/files/docs/2014/08/supplier_guidance_on_cv_calculation.pdf 

So I am supposing that OVO should be able to tell me exactly what calorific figure they’ve used to calculate my bill because its probably entered into the computer system they use to generate bills..  Perhaps it would be handy  for them to include the specific calorific value on a bill then customers would have all the relevant data to hand.

That’s an old document and there have been a number of consultations since then. As far as I’m aware (I’m not an expert - just another customer) the daily values are indeed used. This has been a topic over a number of months here and elsewhere. This is a later document which might help https://www.gasgovernance.co.uk/sites/default/files/ggf/page/2020-06/8%20OAD%20Section%20F%20-%20Determination%20of%20Calorific%20Value.pdf

Okay so for everyone’s info I emailed National Grid and they’ve confirmed that SGN are the gas distributors covering West Sussex are and that I come under the Local Distribution Zone area SO which I’m assuming means Southern.  They’ve directed me to this link https://mip-prd-web.azurewebsites.net/DataItemExplorer and if you look under Calorific Values and search for your LDZ zone then you can search for all the calorific values that fall with specific date ranges.  I’ve now reached out to SGN to find out more info on how to use the data shown in this report in order to search for the calorific value that may have been used to calculation conversion to KWH on my bill.  If nothing else, I’m certainly learning a lot about stuff I’d never even thought about before.

I have an obsolete Imperial Gas Meter which has  4 digits

My gas bill shows a 5 digit reading record

I’ve questioned this with my supplier as I believe my bills are very high compared to neighbors' usage

Supplier says 4 or 5 digit recordings make no difference

Can anyone clarify please?

Hi @elsa if they want 5 digits just put a zero in front. It’s just the difference between the new reading and the old that’s important and used for the bill. There’s usually a red digit at the end which is not used. If you post a photo somebody can check .. something like this 

Just another thought on this, if you’re looking at the kWh figure, this will be quite different having gone through a few calculations. It shows this on you bill 

Thank you for your comments 

It would seem my 4 digit meter has been recorded as 5 digit readings for billing and it’s not been with a 0 (zero) as the first digit.

I’m assured by my energy provider the problem is being investigated. but I have little faith that I won’t end up paying for their mistake.

You should probably record the reading with a photo if you can showing the serial number as well. Send this to them and you could start a complaint as well

Can anyone please please please translate SSE/OVO gas prices into a price per imperial kilowatt?

It’d be really useful to have this pre and post ‘the price hike’.

When we moved to our current house in Oct 2020 we provided an initial reading in iKW and it’s caused no end of trouble.

We just want to know how much gas we’ve used in iKW and how much that gas cost at the time so we can compare what we should have paid them, with what we’ve actually paid them.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!