The boiler is switched off.
My bill in November was 230 euros and during that period when I visited for a couple of weeks, I did using the heating occasionally which is why maybe it increased from the usual 150 euros a month.
Do cannabis plants sleep so need less heat at night? 
I canāt wait to see what it does on Sunday.
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There are empty half hour intervals between midnight and 7 am where no power has been used. However, I know for sure that I have at least 50 watts of surveillance equipment operating 24/7 which is not showing during those interval periods. Can anyone with EDF tell me if such small amounts will show up on their hourly graphs?
Wouldnāt get much cannabis for 5ā¬/day! Cannabis farms are often detected by huge electricity billsā¦
Theory No.2 - maybe ENEDIS have allocated your data to another client i.e. youāre not seeing your data, & someone else is seeing yours.
To prove that point is there anyone you can call on to switch off the main disjoncteur for a few hours? Your readings should then be zero, unless your power has been tapped into between the meter & the DdB (it can happenā¦).
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Historically, yes, but the use of LED lighting has made the bills lower.
Yes, I can at some point. Will ask them to switch off the electricity for an hour.
Looking at it another way, the appliance that burns at a solid 1000W per hour continuously from 0700-0030, is switched off at 0030.
Then at 0100am, and for half an hour on the hour for a total of 6 hours, it (or something else operating at 1000W per hour), switches on again.
1000W is the power of a 1-bar electric heater or a very low-powered electric kettle.
Ahhhhhā¦ could this thing be operating 24 hours but on a half-rate for night rate period? A la the old xoncrete storage heaters
Yes, Iāve got figures as low as of 0,01kWh showing on mine.
Since the exact month that the Linky meter was installed, the electricity bill has been ridiculously high throughout the year regardless of the season. You could say that someone is powering an air conditioning unit during the summer months, but then what about the milder months when nothing is needed. The data just doesnāt make sense to me. Maybe the Linky meter itself is just broken?
Itās very consistent, almost *too* consistent** for any sort of domestic use other than a heater plugged in and running continuously, or 1kW lamp (1kW is a large amount of light in one place though, even without LED technology, and enormous with).
I guess the good news is that if you can get an electrician with a clamp meter to examine your tableau then it should be easy to trace the load if it is real.
** which means ābroken Linkyā is a tiny bit more plausible.
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This thread is like reading a suspense thriller or who done it!
@linky I am keeping my fingers crossed that you, or someone, can visit your house very soon to carry out the tests that many very informative posts have suggested.
And a damn sight more interesting and gripping than posts on UK politics! After all this could happen to any of us!
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Does anyone know, as and when after all this stress and out of pocket for Linky is resolved by having had to prove it was either a faulty installation by the EDFās subcontractor or a defective Linkyā¦
Is the electricity user ever entitled to statutory compensation for all the trouble heās had and the unfair deprivation of so much extra money?
Or will he even struggle to get a refundā¦ customer service and unwillingness to make things right not having impressed me in 2 ex-government-owned industries in France so far, I wonder if the practices and lack of compensation are the same in Electricity.
What do you have near to you? Businesses? Farms? Houses?
Itās a rural area with a lot of new housing in the area. There are no factories in close vicinity, at least 150 meters away, but there is a school very nearby. My neighbours who live next to my property would easily have enough room for a green house perhaps.
As I said it is a suspiciously constant load, as presented in the graphs above, but (as previously noted) I donāt think remote armchair diagnosis is possible.
You are going to have to get someone to check things out for you.
The slight variations between 18 and 24 are interesting - is that when your lights are intermittently illuminated?
Yes, between 18:00 and midnight, one light switches on continuously and two lights switch on and off randomly. This would explain why the consumption increases during that period.
However, Wednesdayās reading shows half hour gaps between midnight and 7am. This does not make sense since I have all the camera streams for that period saved in the cloud, so I know that nothing was switched off unless this is just a glitch in the Linky reading switching from daily to half hour readings.