Who owns the electricity meter in my house?

[MikeyT]

Electricity Board? Do they exist any more?

I've ranted on here before about our leccy bill - it was with british Gas and we were paying £128 a month DD - so we changed to Atlantic ... set a DD of £60 a month.

The meter was read the other week and a revised bill has come in ... owing another £458. So that's £458 + £180 that we've paid - for three months - so £638 for three months - £213 a month - which is frankly, ridiculous!

I believe the meter is faulty but who do I get to check it?

[john_p]

Can you not check it yourself?

See how much it changes over an hour, and account for every bit of kit you have in your house. If it's significantly out, check that next door isn't running a cannabis factory or hosting servers in their garage

Otherwise, you should speak to your electricity provider and they'll probably have a procedure for this.

[TedMaul]

Try this, this looks like the sub dept of national grid who are responsible for meters. HTH

[URL] http://www.onstream.co.uk/Customer/home_customer.a...

[liner33]

Not one of the metric meter/imperial meter confusions is it??

http://www.bbc.co.uk/watchdog/consumer_advice/late...

[shirt]

its your lekky provider, though be careful:

i had to have a meter moved and replaced with a new one. am with british gas and they assured me it was their responsibility and came round to do it. then they realised the meter needed to be moved more than one metre [i already told them this] so was told its out of their area of responsibility.

cue phonecall and visit from YEDL, and a £350bill to run a new cable in from outside as they can't allow internal cable joints. this was for the cable only, i had to cut the trenches, remove my front step and make good myself.

BG then came and replaced to old meter, so its definitely their responsibility.

Edited by shirt on Friday 23 January 12:21

[mcflurry]

MikeyT said:

The meter was read the other week and a revised bill has come in ... owing another £458. So that's £458 + £180 that we've paid - for three months - so £638 for three months - £213 a month - which is frankly, ridiculous!

Was the previous reading an estimate or actual one?

[esselte]

liner33 said:

Not one of the metric meter/imperial meter confusions is it??

http://www.bbc.co.uk/watchdog/consumer_advice/late...

That's for gas isn't it?

[spitfire-ian]

esselte said:

liner33 said:

Not one of the metric meter/imperial meter confusions is it??

http://www.bbc.co.uk/watchdog/consumer_advice/late...

That's for gas isn't it?

Yes

Don't think you can measure electricity in ft :P

[Emsman]

Good luck with the whole thing.

Dealing with any of the service providers is a right pain.

The responsibility lies with the provider, but, as has already been posted, make sure if its going to be replaced its going in the same place, as the bill will go through the roof, you will be messed around something chronic.

You would have more luck contacting the monkeys in your local safari park than dealing with the fking idiots that these people employ.

Good luck

[Deva Link]

MikeyT said:

I believe the meter is faulty but who do I get to check it?

Have you tried switching everything off to see the the wheel stops spinning around?

Went to a house years ago where the immersion heater was wrongly wired so it was on all the time and they were getting huge bills.

Your electricity supplier can arrange for the meter to be tested - they put a dummy load on it to check accuracy.

Is your dwelling attached to any others? It's not unknown for semi's etc to have sockets wired from next door, especially if it's Council (or ex-council) property.

Edited by Deva Link on Friday 23 January 12:36

[Road2Ruin]

MikeyT said:

Electricity Board? Do they exist any more?

I've ranted on here before about our leccy bill - it was with british Gas and we were paying £128 a month DD - so we changed to Atlantic ... set a DD of £60 a month.

The meter was read the other week and a revised bill has come in ... owing another £458. So that's £458 + £180 that we've paid - for three months - so £638 for three months - £213 a month - which is frankly, ridiculous!

I believe the meter is faulty but who do I get to check it?

That doesnt sound that much to me. My bill over the winter period is not far off that. (leccy & Gas though)

[liner33]

esselte said:

liner33 said:

Not one of the metric meter/imperial meter confusions is it??

http://www.bbc.co.uk/watchdog/consumer_advice/late...

That's for gas isn't it?

Yep sorry read the British gas bit and got confused

[Nocebo]

The utility companies don't own the meters. Around here in the East Midlands all the leccy meters are owned by Siemenns but not sure if they own all the meters nationally

[Gretchen]

Nocebo said:

The utility companies don't own the meters. Around here in the East Midlands all the leccy meters are owned by Siemenns but not sure if they own all the meters nationally

Have a feeling is the same where I live.

I've had several problems of this nature in the past, meters 'set too fast' seems common. It can be measured, though not sure it's a 100% guarantee of accuracy, more a guesstimate. Literally by turning off most appliances and simply boiling the kettle!!

Was been told the current meter in my home is faulty... nearly two years ago, yet nothing has been done...