Electricity Bills Increasing - or Not?

[hairbear]

There are some useful threads on the forum. One has the experiences of someone who had exactly your problem.

Linky - electricity bill now seven times higher

In November 2020, Enedis installed a Linky meter outside my property. This property remains empty for most of the year when I am not there. Since installation of the Linky meter, my electricity bill has increased by more than seven times. EDF claim that I use more than 1000kWh per month even when the property is empty. This is an astounding amount of electricity. The only thing connected is an internet router, a couple of light bulbs that turn on at random times during the evening, and a few security cameras. Total electrical consumption at any one time is probably no more than 100 watts. A 50-watt lightbulb would take 20 hours to use 1 kWh. EDF claim that I use at least 30kWh a day. This is like having 30 light bulbs or 15 desktop computers on all the time 24/7. I know that my “compteur” can’t even handle such high loads at any one time as using a vacuum cleaner and an electric cooker at the same time would trip the system. I have called EDF and emailed them many times, yet every t…

Here is his last post, which explained what happened. Food for thought.

Linky - electricity bill now seven times higher

Anyway, an update for everyone. The water pump has been changed and the electricity consumption is now at reasonable levels. Initially the water pump company insisted that there shouldn’t be a problem and when they came to inspect, they couldn’t find any fault with the old water pump. It’s only when I insisted that the electricity consumption drops significantly when the pump is switched off that they started to consider the situation. It seems that there is some issue with certain old water pumps and the new meters. It could be that certain water pumps constantly consume electricity regardless of whether it’s pumping water or not and the old analogue meters were unable to pick it up. Hopefully this experience will be useful to anyone else finding themselves in the same situation.