Aclara smart meter + Scottish Power + Off peak electric water heater
Surprise there isn’t more awareness about this whole farce ongoing considering most flats in this area have no gas what so ever and are all hooked up with electric water heaters.
Electric water heater supplies hot taps shower bath etc. It’s recommended to time the water boil between suppliers off peak cheap rates, and off peak time chunk varies between suppliers.
Scottish power off peak 12- 5am GMT
To my surprise despite the country moving to Britain summer time I predictably moved my water heater forwards 1 hour as expected. Only to now discover this was detrimental as Scottish powers off peak time chunk remains frozen on GMT Greenwich mean time all year round 365 days a year.
Have now had to move the water heater back an hour to accommodate the billing system.
Wondering how many people are paying the more expensive full day rate during BST as they are moving heaters forwards not realising the smart meter and billing system remains locked on GMT. 1 hour a day of daytime peak rate is adding up I suppose.
Anyway most flats in city centre Liverpool are now electric only.
I am fairly switched on to this type of stuff. Opens my mind to how many people don’t realise they May be accidentally paying an hour of daytime peak rate.
If programmed correctly and used correctly on the right tariff i firmly believe the electric water heater can be the equivalent price or sometime less expensive than gas.
4.5 kWh is what my water heater uses overnight for a full next day of hot water showers and washing. (No baths) had a lot of experimenting and reducing the boil time down in increments of 15 minutes per night until we would run out and discover the tolerance this way.
radiators are disconnected from it totally separate electric units.
