What has occurred is that your new meter now allows you to measure your Electricity usage DAILY rather than the 90 day wait for a meter reader to come up your street and read your meter.
On your bill (well not at the moment as they have left it off the New Bills) you will see the date that your meter will be read (even though you can see the daily reads on your My Account or the APP).
You can see via the usage graphs you Yearly, Monthly, Weekly. Daily and lastly your hourly reports for a day.
The reason your prices have increased is because YOUR PRICE PER kWh (Kilo Watt Hour) has increased or maybe you were getting estimated reads and now AGL are getting correct usage data.
Without a Smart Meter you were being presented with an AVERAGE USAGE PER DAY (ie your End meter read - your start meter read divided by the number of days between the reads) for instance 9900 - 9000 (900 units) divided by
8 Apr 2023 to 6 Jul 2023 (90 days)
900 / 90 then equals 10 kWh average usage a day.
Not ideal reporting but gives you a guide on your usage.
Now on your My Account and App you can see each individual day like below.
You can see here that I used 4.10 kWh and generated 20.34 kWh, looking at the rest of the graph you can see this is close to my average usage for this billing period.
Lets look at that day and see my usage.
You can also see your basic costs for 6 hour periods. The times on this graph though are incorrect, the reading shown for 12 am is actually your usage from Midnight to 1am thus making the last reading your usage from 11pm to Midnight.
This may not seem important but if you do not have a single rate Tariff your calculations may be incorrect to try and work them out.
Lets say Peak starts at 00:00 (midnight) and goes to 1:00 am then starts at 6:00 am and goes to 10:00 am, then starts at 3:00pm and finishes at midnight.
What figure would you come up with???
Now to claim for electricity theft you need to provide proof that someone is stealing your power.
What is your basis for stating this. Five fold increase in electricity is quite drastic, now remember that you are charged a rate for the amount of kWh you consume.
If you compare a bill where you did not have a smart meter (USAGE ONLY NOT COST) and compare it to your new bill (USAGE ONLY NOT COST) are they really different.
Now if you are making these statements to people on the phone after a 30 min wait I would expect you to have proof, such as above.
That would be like me ringing up AGL and telling them that when I put less power in from my solar they are charging me more for my usage.
Well guess what, that's true. Have a look at my usage for the 27th July, I used more power on that day.
If you do go and change providers it will not change your usage at all, in fact AGL allows you download all of the data for up to two Account page years past from the APP and My Account page.
If you want to send me a Private Message I will get you to download your data and send you a report for every days usage in the file, and sent it back in .CSV or Text format for you to examine. If you are not on a single tariff, I can do a report for you if you supply the times.
If you are on a DEMAND Tariff I would suggest you look at it and change as it does not suit may home users especially if you are one of these people that COOL / HEAT their house to extremes.
Similarly if you have a workshop, and making things, welding etc it does not take much to increase your demand rate.
Any way hope this helps.
