I enjoy an reduction 7 storage boiler is it cheaper to use? other appliances during the night (eg washing machine) or is this...
other appliances during the night (eg washing machine) or is this rate in recent times cheaper for heater storage puprposes?
My mam have those as they were built into the apartment block she lives in, and as far as I can find out, in attendance is no Economy 7 tariff anymore. Check with your supplier, but it was an proffer back in the behind time 70's, probably only with a national company. All electric is cheaper at hours of darkness usually between the hours of midnight and 7am, about one third the cost, you can set your washing gadget on timer and it will come on in the night, same next to immersion heaters.
Economy 7 is still in use. Over the years I fitted hundreds of these, so I deem I know what I'm talking about! The storage heaters are on separate circuits, and singular come on during th off peak spell,, 7 hours at varying times, mine is 22:30 to 00:30 and 02:30 to 07:30. During these hours everything else in the house is also on the lower rate, the Supply Companies time switch has 2 circuits, one to switch the storage heaters on and one to revision the meter dial from normal rate to low rate. The low rate is about one third the mundane rate, but the normal rate is fractionally higher than a single rate tariff. I hold economy 7 but no storage heaters. No, if you are on Economy 7, this covers all of your equipment during the hours of darkness. However, if you have cheap night unit, your daytime units are more expensive. I have newly been told this on the telephone by a being from E-on, when I rang up to change my fuel to a fixed rate.
Answers: yes it is
but you really have to knoe when the cheap extent begins
and ends.
ask your suplier
I also have a 2-rate meter and the *whole house* is on the low rate over-night.
I understand that some house enjoy a separate circuit for the storage heaters and only *that* gets the low rate overnight.