iHD Red Everytime I Switch Anything On

Your Kettle and Toaster are fairly high energy consumers (being new doesn’t reduce power usage much). But they should only be using power for the short time that they’re on. 
You should be able to see your usage through a typical day and that might give a clue as to what is consuming power and when

Hi ​@bonniejean 

One of our volunteers has already left some good points here, my IHD does the same when I switch my kettle on, but quickly returns back to green when it finishes boiling - as BPLightlog mentioned, they should only be using power while in use, but your usage should drop back down when they finish.

Do you know if you’re being billed to daily or monthly meter readings? More frequent readings would mean we can bill you accurately, do you know how often readings are being sent to us? If you’ve not checked those on your account, it will be worth checking to see if we’re getting meter readings and whether the bills have been based on meter readings.

We’ve got a couple of topics on the Forum which may be helpful here:

Hope this helps.

Hi yes it does go straight back down I’m just shocked at how much electricity I’m going through before I’ve even got up my IHD is showing £2.60 usage by 6am!!! Even reducing my underfloor heating from constant usage to 2hrs a day has made little difference to the usage. My meter gives half hourly readings 

That might sound high for so early in the day but don’t forget that it will include the standing charge for the day. 
If you can see your half hourly usage, you might be able to figure out what’s using most power but heating and hot water often take quite a bit during winter as they re-heat for the day ahead

Oh of course I hadn’t thought of the standing order charge. I need to work out how to see my half hour usage to try and work out what is using the energy 

Try here ​@bonniejean 

That’s helpful and I’m baffled now. It’s mostly 13.30-17.30 when I’m not in my flat then a spike at 18.00 for an hour which makes sense as my heating is on then 

If you share a screenshot of an example day’s half hourly usage we’d be happy to give an opinion !! 

thanks here’s  yesterday 

Something definitely switches on around 4am and then there are other increases around 7:30 and as you say from 13:30 for a few hours. 
If you're sure these are actual readings rather than estimates (they can still be estimated if the system isn’t receiving full readings), then the next thing to check is if the meter number on your bill (labelled MPAN) matches your actual meter. https://www.ovoenergy.com/guides/energy-guides/what-is-an-mpan-number

The timing of the extra usage looks like some heating or hot water (immersion heater?) 

Do you have an off peak tariff like economy 7 (or economy 10)? 
Some of the timings seem to correspond to those off peak time slots