Hi has anyone got this months electricity bills yet ??
Many of the people we are speaking to here have been astounded at the massive increase for this month, our friends normal consumption is about 180/200 ytl monthly, this months bill was a whopping 710ytl our neighbours have rec'd similar and a couple of houses we care for, for neighbours who live in UK have had hikes from 40/50ytl to over 150/180ytl
A friend told me that the electric prices are now going to be set according to the price of oil etc, and he said to expect another increase this month!!!!!
My bill for last month was about £250!!! I really can't afford another increase!
I spoke to my hairdressers yesterday who is a local girl, she told me her electric bill was normally 250ytl, this month is was 400ytl, so yes the locals are paying the increase, and no they are not happy about it.
If you are thinking of fitting new a/c or replacing old a/c, go for inverter driven stuff. It uses 1/6th of the juice and this time of year a/c is the big user of domestic electricity
i have never had a late reading ours is over a week late reading these stories im dreading getting mine it has alreading increased 3 times in past few months
Suggest you contact friends and family back in UK and check the rises there before making too many comments about here.
This is a world wide phenomenon brought about by greed. People spending what they have not got, buying on credit that they cannot afford etc. The world wide macro economics are causing corrections to this greed and a case of the majority suffering for a sizeable minority.
I will point the finger where the blame mainly lies, the USA. Selling oil based products at ridiculous prices and the government afriad to tackle the issue. Second the crazy sub prime mortgage market where you could get one even though you could not afford it. Unfortunatley many international banks tried to cash in on the sub prime market the results are being seen with banks in UK etc loosing hundreds of millions.
With all of this the demand for oil is still rapidly rising and with simple economics the price has risen into stupid numbers. Yes it may be falling on spot markets but oil for domestic consumption is bought 3 months ahead usually so any change takes at least that long to work its way through to the domestic market.
Conclusion, for once you cannot blame the lunatics in charge in TRNC they have no control of world prices. However if you live in UK or USA just blame the greed of people who cannot control their urges to spend money they do not have.
That is a rather sweeping statement. I think that people all over the world have a tendency to spend more money than they have and live on credit at times,not just the UK and USA. As for electric prices they have not risen to the extent they seem to have in the TRNC my bill this month is the same cost per unit as it was 3 months ago. Living on an Island petrol prices are more than 5p extra per litre compared with the UK so we're very used to price hikes but compared with the TRNC electric price rises I will speak less harshly about our prices over here.
its all well and good debating how and why the reasons high increases occur , but how on earth can people in nc sustain these increases when wages there are not particularly high ? , it has to be a real struggle for them
My electric for my apartment last month was 74ytl this month it it is a whopping 205ytl and I was away for five days this month staying with friends in Pafos
And i thought British Gas was bad with it's 35% increase, but at almost 300% are the local government insane to allow this!! Only complete idiots would allow an increase of this size. it's gonna force people back to the UK and then where would the economy be. I might sell my gaff and buy a place in spain as the apartments are dirt cheap these days and although the spanish athourities like to take advantage of the brits they don't do so on quite the same scale as in NC !!
hi guys, we taken possesion next month and will be on builders electric and water. Can anyone tell me what i should expect to pay for these if its only to run the pool pump while theres no one there?
sorry if i seem confused about the extortionate,price increase`s in the supply
of electricity to homes in n/c. were people aware of an increase in the cost of electricity,or did this just come out of the blue, have the newspapers. commented on this price hike, and what have the energy suppliers said if anything,as has been said this could have a detrimental effect on the future
we have just had a bill for 300ytl for pool only, pump on two and half hours per day builders electric, think we will have to stay here in the rain and work just to pay the electric bill out there!! isn't life fun.
1301 ytl for 2 months, 3 bed villa with pool and aircon = £578 = £289 per month, and this is not builders electric, but is let to holidaymakers who perhaps don't realise the cost. I will be placing very large signs all around my villa!
Im trying not to think about for how long! we were out in June put 300ytl on account first week in July, then had a phone call from the person who looks after two weeks ago saying bill needed more money as 300ytl had been used, so by my maths per month,ugh!
This is to help all those trying without success to understand your electricity bill. It does not cover Builders electric tariff which is charged at a flat rate for all units used. Also I don't think there is a service charge on Builders tariff but all the remaining charges do apply.
I will try to do a summary of how the electricity is charged here. Many of you seem confused but perhaps that's because you don't live here or only visit infrequently. I'm sorry it's so long but I hope it will make the bills easier to understand
The first thing to say is that you should ensure that you receive a monthly bill & an actual (not estimated) one. The estimated bill will never to properly adjusted because of the charging structure. This is most important because the electricity unit charge is based on usage in a month & unlike the UK. which is completely in reverse, the more units you use in a month the more you pay at a higher unit charge. All the UK tariffs I have seen are based on annual usage with a very high unit charge for say 1,000 units per annum & a much lower charge for the remainder of the units used per annum, therefore in the UK the more electricity you use the cheaper per unit it becomes.
Here in the TRNC now there are 4 bands & in a 30 day month (between meter readings), the cheapest band is for the first 250 units, then there are 2 more bands of 250 units taking you up to 750 units a month which are increasingly charged at a higher rate & finally over 750 units a month you pay a maximum unit charge for the remainder which is now over 80% dearer than the rate for the first 250 units. This is why it is important that your meter is read monthly. If it isn't you will pay for a large number of units at the highest rate & you will not get the benefit (as far as I know) of 2 x 250 units at the lowest rate. I am not totally sure about this because I have never had anything other than an 'actual' monthly bill since I've lived here (since early 2002). Perhaps someone who has will clarify this point.
Two more confusions. If the bill is read after 30 days the bands will read eg 275,275 etc or more or less depending on how many days since the last reading. It may be that this will partly deal with a 2 month period between readings but I cannot say. Certainly it won't give the same result as 2 monthly bills would have if the actual usage is much higher in one of those periods.
If the meter is read in less than 30 days since the last reading then the bands will be less than 250 each eg 242, 233. etc.
Looking back at my bills they seem to be 250, 242, 233 & as low as 217 in short months.
or 258, 267, 275, 283, 292 & 300 (only once) in long months. The very long months occur when there are long bayrams (holidays)
These long & short months between readings will tend to distort your monthly bill & the distortion will be greater during very hot or very cold weather if you use electricity for heating.
Finally the confusion about the unit charge being different for every user. This is because they are currently increasing prices yet again & depending on what date your meter is actually read the unit charges will include so many days at the old rate & so many days at the new higher rate. There has hardly been a month this year so far with round kurus unit prices.
In addition to the electricity unit charge, there are additional charges for service charge which like in UK. if you still have a service charge tariff is based on the no. of days since the last reading & therefore alters each month in the same way as the unit charge. Also there is a charge levied towards the upgrading of the power stations. This was introduced in August 2006 at 2 kurus per total units on the monthly bill & hasn't been increased since then. Finally KDV (VAT) is added to the total bill excluding the Power Station charge which is not subject t
There's no such thing as normal when it comes to electricity user either here or in UK. We use about 8,000 units a year. We use virtually no gas, do not have CH & do not use any wood at all. We use paraffin & electricity for heating.
January 08 1,060, February 685, March 591, April 548, May 445, June 668, July 843. April & May are usually our lowest months & January & August our highest months.
So can anyone advise how much it costs just to run a pool per month. Pool runs 8 hours daily at the current time. Also is it possible to run the pool pump less hours daily or will this effect adversely the water quality.
Apparently an 8 x 4 pool needs to run no more than 5hrs per 24 hrs maximum. So you are using 3 units a day more than you need. 90 units a month extra on your bill. Who decided to run it 8 hrs a day. If it was your pool maintenance company, ask them if they like to pay your bill.
An aircon energy class D (mostly sold cheap in TRNC) uses with 9000BTU approx 1kWs per hr. Running it 5 hrs a day would be a total consumption of rough: 3-5kWs / day. (depending on your allover heatloss)
A standart fridge uses in hot weather 2-3kWs a day!
God it must be really painful for all concerned. My council tax , service charge, gas and electricity comes to about £200 a month. Mind you I haven't received my latest gas bill and they read the meter a couple of weeks ago. It usually comes within days. Maybe its too heavy for the postman to carry? I will let you know.
i think i have found the solution as prices are now said to be falling. keep the meter reader from entering your property to read the meter. dog in the garden should be enough. then you get an estimated bill, which is usually less than the bill if the meter is read.hence when the meter is read next month you are paying the previously used units from last month at the reduced rates.
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I hope they do price the electric in line with oil cos oil is way down to $95 a barrel. Down from highs of nearly $150 in July. In fact oil is just about as cheap as it was at the start of the year.
I will do a small prediction and we all will see if it goes like I said. You know how the USA is very dependant on foreign oil. Also remeber the private deal Bush did last year with the saudis to prevent another drastic oil price rise. But he could not or did not wanted to protect the economy from speculative crude oil buyings. ENRON is very active in this. Enron is connected to Mc Cain. Maybe it is completle false what I say, so please do not argue about it or try to push me into one corner. I think whoever will be elected, the prices of crude oil will go up again middle next year latest.
What I want to say is that the "cheap" crude oil price is artificial set, to push one of the canditates.
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