Your electrics are expensive, we have used 610 kw sofar at €99. Tempo tariff, solar panels and calculated use of washing machine, tumble dryer, dishwasher etc…
Our yearly bill is down from 1600€ to 1100€.
Now need a battery to store excess energy instead of selling to EDF…
Kilowatt(s) - shortened to kW (small k, big W) - is a measurement of instantaneous power i.e the actual load in Watts that something is drawing at an instant in time.
Kilowatthour(s) - shortened to kWh (small k, big W, small h) - is a measurement of power consumed over time i.e. a 1 kW load running for one hour = 1 kWh (also what is known as unit of electricity in the UK.
Precision matters in these things. Yes, usually one can work out what someone means when thy use kW instead of kWh, but it can sometimes confuse.
However, @larkswood12 couldn’t possibly draw 200kW via their domestic connection, but they can consume 200kWh.
We have used 539kWh this month thanks to solar and only bought 3.2kWh which isn’t bad as we have an EV and charge it at home. The bad thing is we have given EDF 415kWh, when we had the solar installed we were advised by the company not to sell it back to EDF as the money we would receive wasn’t worth the trouble as we’d have very little excess power…in the past 11 months EDF have had 2.81mWh free of charge
I have just dumped Tempo tariff by calling EDF today.
As of 1st November I am back to Tariff Bleu vanilla as before. It will not change my cost rate anymore according to what time of day I use electricity.
Today being 21st September I’ve given them plenty of notice. As I wouldn’t put it past any French institution, if there’s a sudden rush for the doors, to suddenly introduce a requirement for a notice period.
Interestingly, along with the confirmation that I’m off Tempo from 1st November, an unasked-for estimation of what I will be paying once I stop Tempo, has also arrived by email from EDF.
It’s pretty much exactly the same as I’ve been paying. Before calling them I’d already thought through how many more Euros I’d be prepared to pay to lose the onerous Tempo restrictions. eg not to have to pay 7 and a half times the normal tariff if I used electricity anytime between 6am and 10pm on Red days and also not to have to still pay quite a bit more on remaining days in winter as White days.
But according to EDF’s estimation, which got only the total usage right and made totally incorrect assumptions as rhe repartition amongst Cooking, Heating and Other that I use electricity for, there will be practically nothing extra to pay once Tempo is gone.
This reminded me that I hadn’t updated my spreadsheet to see if Tempo is still worthwhile, so I’ve just done it and it saved me €300 last year.
Like you, I’m questioning what I would pay to not have the restriction so I did a comparison with the normal creuses/pleines tariffs and, all else being equal, that would cost me €100 extra per year.
Of course, all else would not be equal since we wouldn’t be reducing the heating on red days plus the living room is now well insulated.
100 euros a year was not much more than I was prepared to pay to lose Tempo restrictions. I’m direct debited every 2 months for actual usage but I could have gone back to being debited an average fixed monthly cost if I’d wanted. This would spare someone - with perhaps higher usage than me - the cashflow effects of higher bills in winter as their monthly payments would be the same amount each month.
You should be able to compare against last year for reference, if it’s out by too much you can always jump back, taking into account the inevitable price hike of course