I just received my Hot Water bill. It's $130 (inc supply charge of $48).
I live by myself, in a block of 8 units, and shower once a day. I don't use the washing machine on a Hot cycle.
Does $130 for Hot water alone sound like a lot?
PS. I also have a Natural Gas connection with the same provider, but that's a separate bill all together.
Pardon me but I think Hot Water is a 2 separate account (Gas bill and Water bill) so i'm a bit confuse how you are charge for hot water? can you explain in detail?
I have been told by Origin Energy that I must have 2 separate accounts (one for hot water and another for natural gas). It's something to do with a meter I believe, and the fact that it's a block of 8 units?
my hot water bill is usually around $60/2 months in a small apt for 2 adults and 2 children. This is separate from the water bill and gas bill and electricity bill.
Do you mind me asking what your supply charges are? I also get a hot water bill (separate from the water bill and gas bill and electricity bill) and $43 per month for 1 person sounds a bit steep…
There wasn't one. Just a hot water charge @ $0.01123 per L
Oh wow. I wonder how I can get around having to pay the supply charges for my hot water bill
Hot water bill?
Or combination or Water then Gas or electric to heat it?
Much confuse, very bill, wow
Yes, it's a hot water bill from Origin (separate from the water bill and gas bill and electricity bill)
I would assume OP lives in an apartment building where the hot water is provided by a utility company and metered.
https://www.originenergy.com.au/for-home/hot-water/hot-water…
Mine was $176 for 2 people for 2 months, just under $3 a day. Yours works out to ~$1.50 a day, so seems pretty similar on balance.
Thank you for that!!!!
Roughly $300 per quarter here for 2 people.
Where possible, (if you have access to the HWS meter), you can reduce hot water consumption by only turning the HWS on for about an hour when you get up early enough in the morning - before you use it, (have breakfast etc) and remember to switch off before you use it. Myself and then-primary school aged daughter did this successfully with waist-high tank (125litres?/can't remember). Always enough hot water for morning and evening showers/baths and all other uses - if you're careful! Works with off-peak, as long as you get up about an hour before it cuts out! Keeping your hot water tank on all the time means that it just keeps charging you for reheating the same water whenever its temperature drops below a certain level. You wouldn't leave a kettle on all the time; it's just a bigger (more costly) version!
If you are on the regular offpeak it will only be heating during something like 11pm-6am and during this time its unlikely to use that much power for extra heat.
Its possible to be on a different offpeak that turns on at random times during the day, if this is the case you can call and get it changed.
I'm going to assume that most of your savings were from the fact that it wasn't heating up the water to the temperature it wanted as it would be switched off before this happened.
The experience I quoted belonged in the 1990s - but is still valid. It works because the heated water rises to the top of the tank and the outlet pipe - so you are only paying to heat the water you will use. It was always hot enough.
During 'overnight' Tariff 31 off-peak, which I now use, it takes about 6 or 7kw (seasonally)to leave it on all night (only needed one night a week in my case) because it re-heats the whole tank. It used 10kw on the night after fairly recent replacement installation. I chose a stainless steel AquaMax because of their proclaimed extra insulation - & it seems better than the (excellent 25-year-old) Rheem-that-died. Both 250 litre.
The Tariff 33 off-peak costs half as much again, and although it guarantees at least 18 hours availability, because those hours are at the discretion of the electricity supplier, might not not fit into my suggested frugality regime. I believe there is probably an electricity-supplier charge to change over tariffs, which might make it uneconomic.
how many Litre do you use?
we got a 2 people and use around 5000L in summer, and 10000L in winter, between $150-$200
and my supply charge is 29.88 c/Day + GST with QLD origin
Never counted the litres as I have rain tank in addition to mains supply. Mains supply usage - mainly 1 person - is only about 1,000 litres per 6 months cos I only use it for shower & drinking/cooking. All else is from rain tank. (And if I could find reasonable efficient filter system to make tank water drinkable I'd unhook from mains - suggestions welcome)
Is there a typo in the Origin supply charge you quote? I'm pretty sure mine with Origin for Tariff 11 was $1.29+ per day. Plus Origin charge another 3c a day for the off-peak tariff 31 supply. Plus another 6.7c per day for ME to supply THEM with solar power! Inability to find anything significantly better (as I did not want contract)and some inertia means I've only just changed from hateful Origin - who stuffed up the 1Kw solar installation I bought from them in 2008 for $4495, and have just got worse from then on. Have a look at Lumo Energy; their price per kw is a fraction higher than Origin (Tariff 11 = 27c instead of 24c appx) - but their tariff 11 supply charge is only around 95c per day. For someone like me who uses less than 2 kw a day (Tariff 11) & 1kw per day (HWS tariff 31), that's a bargain. And they don't charge an extra supply charge for separate off peak hot water like Origin do.. I have 2-year contract with Lumo - but with NO exit fee, so to me that's equivalent of no contract….
My gas bill was $260 for two people in SA, gas is only used for hot water and the gas stove in our house