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hi,purchased an apartment some months ago in majorca,electricity bills seem a bit high.is the cost higher than in the uk also is air conditioning costly to run

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Hope the following helps:
OK I can't interpret this sufficiently accurately, because I don't know the difference between potencia and consumo but I got an electricity bill today from Endesa and it reads (5 bed house, 4 aircon units only some of which in operation at any given time - usually a number of hours nighttime - pool, fridge/freezer, electric oven, water pump, not much else apart from lighting/tv etc.
potencia 4.6kW x 31dias x 0.056529€k/W y dia= 8.06€
consumo 524kWh x 0.142319 €kWh = 74.58
Impto (I assume this means impuesto, tax) Electricidad 82.64€ 4.864% = 4.23
Equipos de medida (presumably meter) 31 dias x 0.019726€/dia = 0.61
total = 87.48
IVA 18% = 15.75
total bill = 103.23€
Bear in mind this is august 8 - September 8 and ESTIMATED (:eek:) I don't really know what to expect next month!

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Yes and Yes.

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17 Kwh per day sounds a lot to me. Remember the aircon is just a fridge. How coool are you keeping the house? Do you really need to run all of the units? Sounds like a little housekeeping with the electrical equipment wouldn't go amiss.
Pete

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If that's to me, we NEVER have them all at once - the power would cut out! I reckon in the heat of summer we have my son's on for say 2 hours at bedtime, ours depends on if my OH is here or not, but say 2+ hours overnight, rarely but occasionally the living room. never the other one unless someone's staying. I think the bulk of the cost is the pool & freezer (latter I suspect is starting to die, seems to be working overtime recently)

OP: what were your bills? How bit the apartment?

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I'm with Iberdrola and my bill (for a similar sized house) is about the same. Yes, electricity is more expensive here.




by-the-way Fiona, Potencia is the amount of power you are contracted for (so a standing charge) and consumo is how much you've used.

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[QUOTE=fionamw;9632716]potencia 4.6kW [QUOTE]

How often does your supply trip out. This seems a pretty low potencia to me for what you are running.

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Electricity has gone up a LOT recently. On the other hand Gas bottles still seem relatively cheap. I'm off to buy a gas bottle heater for backup in the winter and thinking of bringing a gas kettle home from my next trip to blighty. We cook on gas and a gas bottle is lasting us around 6 months!

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Same for us re cooking, Angie, we cook 2 separate evening meals every day and the last gas bottle we changed had lasted 7 months. We rely on a gas heater for most of our winter heating (apart from an electric heater for the bathroom and occasionally an electric fan heater at bedtime if it's particularly cold) and from September last year to September of this year I had bought a total of 8 gas bottles. We don't experience condensation problems in the house from using the gas heater, either, which many people apparently do.

I didn't know you could buy such things as gas kettles, though!

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dur that should have read how big the apartment...:o

When we had some work done and realised there didn't seem to be a boletin, so got it checked out and got one, I at the same time upped the required amount (now I know that's potencia), in the process explaining pool, fr/freezer, aircons etc and the woman suggested the rating we've got.....

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Ha Ha! Maybe I should have been clearer. Just a kettle...to put on the gas:rofl:

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We had a potencia of 9. When we moved in was around 5 and sometimes it would blow if oven, pool pump were all on. Don't know if it's still there but on Endesa web there used to be a calculator to find out required potencia. Cheapest we had was the gas hob, gas bottle would last months.

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We have one for emergency use, bought it locally.

Graham

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The Endesa potencia calculator still exists, here: http://tinyurl.com/5v6hmbv
It says our supply is at the right level. Still cuts out if there's too much on, though!

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I may be being particularly dim today (wouldn't be the first time) but wouldn't a saucepan do just as well?