How can I ascertain if I am paying for someone else's electricity? Help!

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Danielle

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My electricity bills are 1.5-2.5k per month for a 5 bedroom house. My heating was running off ? electric so while this figure is extremely high it (kind of) made sense, as the house is large. I had an electrician calculate the space and electric consumption. As it was so high, I decided to go down the route of Air Source, and have had 4 Mitsubishi air source heat pumps installed to make my electric more affordable... having been told this would take them to half or a third. But my first bill have come in and it is £2300, for ONE month!!. I wonder if I am paying for the electricity for the farm shop next door or something like this. My provider, utility warehouse will only check that my meter is working and the wires inside my house.
Does anyone know how or who can I ask to check that the wires going into my house are only providing electricity for my property. Utility warehouse refuse to do this. is there ANY service I can pay for to prove what is going on. Even if just for me! I am in a lot of financial difficulty now! Thanks
 
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I have had a “Tin Foil Hat Moment” no no don’t titter....

So the meter has been replaced, but it would be placed in the same position as the previous.

Seeing as everything is at a dead end.

Maybe the meter is getting rf/electrical interference. So cover the meter in tin foil. It’s easy and cheap.

I would be inclined to try the old spinning disc meter, on your side of the circuit of course.

It looks like something is making to meter read incorrectly at the property.
 
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Berniethebolt said:
It looks like something is making to meter read incorrectly at the property.
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Given the meter change it is far more likely to be a real load. But things are not always what they seem and it could be one or more of the following:
  • The OP's home really is using stupid amounts of power due to some error in the heating system.
  • Someone is leeching power off their home without knowing it (legacy wiring from before properties were separated/sold)
  • Someone is leeching power off deliberately for illegal use (pot plant farm, etc)
  • There is a short to earth with too high a Zs to trip but enough to sink ~40A in to some earthed object somewhere
Until we hear back from some systematic investigation by someone competent and careful, we can but guess!
 
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