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wobblymike
I am hoping that someone can help me get to the bottom of a perplexing problem that is affecting my daughters home. I monitor her energy consumption and have done so since july 2011. In the period july 11 to oct 12 her electricity consumption has averaged 9.64kwh per day. In the period Oct 12 to jun 13 her consumption was 10.58 per day. At the end of july her consumption had jumped to 19.4kwh per day; i flagged this up to her but between us we were unable to explain it. We decided to see what transpired in august - when we took the reading on 31 aug it had jumped again to 22.97 per day. This is very alarming. I would point out that the house is empty mon-fri 0730 to 1600 with my daughter at work and the children at school. She has no extra appliances and is not doing anything different to what she has done over the previous few years. Over the last 9 days i have myself read her meter every day at the same time - she has used 144kwh at 16 per day. Also for each 24 hour period we plugged each of her major appliances except the cooker (which she uses very infrequently) into a power monitor. All the figures recorded are in accord with the power rating of the appliance. I am of course very aware that in july and august the children and my daughter were at home (school holidays) however they spent most of july out and about in the good weather and were away for a full week in august on holiday. My first thought was a faulty meter however her energy supplier has said that the chance of a digital meter being faulty is "minimal" and that if they check it and find it ok that they will charge for it. We have therefore carried out the checks described with no obvious cause coming to light yet her consumption remains alarmingly high. I have run out of ideas, the next step i feel being to request a meter check. Before committing to that I would invite anyone with any thoughts on what i may have missed or any ideas on what may be the cause to offer their thoughts. Many thanks.
