disconnecting the gas meter

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Has any body deliberately had their gas meter disconnected and gone full electric?

Did it save any money?

With daily standing charge supposedly rising to £1 a day it is something I am considering . I do not usually use any (or very little) gas May to October
 
Where did you get £1 a day from? I'm paying 26p.
Elec is already 50p+ a day. What do you expect elec to be?

The UK's wholesale market has a single price for electricity every half hour (which energy suppliers need to pay) and its usually mainly determined by the cost of gas. All energy sources in the UK, from wind to solar to fossil fuels, are being sold based on the high price of gas imports
 
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Where did you get £1 a day from? I'm paying 26p.
Elec is already 50p+ a day. What do you expect elec to be?



The £1 was something that was on the news, Octopus were complaining about the increase. I may have been a bit confused as I realised it may be the combined charge for gas and elec as my gas charge is 27.72 a day

I understood it is not governed by individual energy companies by set by another body. One of the reasons given is that we are all paying the cost caused by the failure of so many energy companies.

In doing some research I have found out that the meters are not owned by the energy company but by one company that charges each company a rental fee.

I have also learnt my supplier charges a fee for disconnecting of £106 and the there is a £300 fee for reconnection if I changed my mind and want to be reconnected so probably a non starter anyway.
 
My cousin is a boiler repair man and says electric is the way forward. Don't disconnect, just don't use.

As per pauljames the point about having the meter disconnected is to avoid paying standing charges. I use virtually no gas May to October but still end with a bill every month.

My question was because I misheard on TV that the standing charge was going to £1 a day i.e I would effectively use £365 towards my leccy bill if I did not have gas.

I would be wary of changing to full electric. Online reviews say it cost about twice as much to heat a home using electric compared to gas. I would question your understanding of your cousin's comments as he was probably referring to air source heat pumps not 'normal' electric heating. That for me, at my age, would be out of the question due to initial installation costs. Money probably better spent on a solar panel installation first.

When I was fitting out a new kitchen including a new boiler I went May to Oct without a boiler so know I can do it in summer.
 
As per pauljames the point about having the meter disconnected is to avoid paying standing charges. I use virtually no gas May to October but still end with a bill every month.

My question was because I misheard on TV that the standing charge was going to £1 a day i.e I would effectively use £365 towards my leccy bill if I did not have gas.

I would be wary of changing to full electric. Online reviews say it cost about twice as much to heat a home using electric compared to gas. I would question your understanding of your cousin's comments as he was probably referring to air source heat pumps not 'normal' electric heating. That for me, at my age, would be out of the question due to initial installation costs. Money probably better spent on a solar panel installation first.

When I was fitting out a new kitchen including a new boiler I went May to Oct without a boiler so know I can do it in summer.

If your home is well insulated then a heat pump will cost less to run than a boiler for heating as it's more efficient
A gas boiler is 90% efficient but a heat pump is 300% efficient in the fact that day you use 1kw energy to run it , it provides 3 kw output

However that's in a perfect world

Also they are rubbish at hot water so you need a tank with an emission heater to provide the hot water efficiency
 
Also they are rubbish at hot water so you need a tank with an emission heater to provide the hot water efficiency

I lived for a whole summer with just hot water from a kettle but I do have an electric shower.

A gas boiler is 90% efficient but a heat pump is 300% efficient in the fact that day you use 1kw energy to run it , it provides 3 kw output


Do you really mean 3KW my boiler is 32KW. I understand they work best when you have underfloor heating. However as already said it is the capital cost that I probably could not afford.
 
I lived for a whole summer with just hot water from a kettle but I do have an electric shower.




Do you really mean 3KW my boiler is 32KW. I understand they work best when you have underfloor heating. However as already said it is the capital cost that I probably could not afford.

Underfloor heating isn't a requirement, it works well with underfloor heating.

What is a requirement is good insulation, for example I need to spend 15k on solid wall insulation to make it worth it. So like you say the capital cost becomes not worth it

Newer houses work with them better as they are better insulated

3kw was just an example of you only need 1kw of power to provide it

Like your 32kw boiler will use say 34kw of gas to provide that

A 32kw out put in heat pump (they don't go that high tho as it's different) just as an example would use 10.5kw of electric
 
A 32kw out put in heat pump (they don't go that high tho as it's different) just as an example would use 10.5kw of electric
not sure that makes sense then

Electricity 28.52p per Kilowatt hour
Gas 7.34p per Kilowatt hour

My boiler is an Ecotec one and works at varying output according the demand. E.G. full output when first firing up but turns down to about half output when it is ticking over (judging by the flame gauge on the display).
 
not sure that makes sense then

Electricity 28.52p per Kilowatt hour
Gas 7.34p per Kilowatt hour

My boiler is an Ecotec one and works at varying output according the demand. E.G. full output when first firing up but turns down to about half output when it is ticking over (judging by the flame gauge on the display).

It's just an example of output ..

Heat pumps’ real climate superpower is their efficiency. Heat pumps today can reach 300% to 400% efficiency or even higher, meaning they’re putting out three to four times as much energy in the form of heat as they’re using in electricity. For a space heater, the theoretical maximum would be 100% efficiency, and the best models today reach around 95% efficiency.

The gulf in efficiency between heat pumps and heaters comes down to how they work. Space heaters work by transforming energy from the form of electricity into another form, heat.

Heat pumps, on the other hand, aren’t turning electricity into heat—they’re using electricity to gather heat and move it around. It’s a subtle difference, but it basically means that a heat pump can return significantly more heat using the same amount of electricity.
 
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