| Comment | Common causes of higher than expected electricity bills:
- old fridges/freezers with poor seals - is the compressor running non-stop?
- gaming PCs left on all day / bitcoin mining - can be as much as 500W load which would be 12kWh a day alone
- people taking long showers (a 10kW shower will use 1kWh every 6 minutes)
- running a dishwasher on the highest temp / longest cycle
- similarly washing machines use a *lot* of energy per load, particularly at higher temps
As others have suggested, your smart meter should allow you to view the kW load in real-time, switch devices on and off and use this to find the culprit
Fundamentally your usage isn't really that high for 3 people. I don't think this is a metering or billing issue. |
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