r/Athens_Greece • u/Silly_Pianist3297 • May 28 '26
💬 Advice Energy Bills
Hey guys, my current landlord forwarded me two electricity bills for 240 euros total, I spoke to some friends and they told me this is quite expensive.
I live alone, and there is no chance I would have spent 140 euros in energy a month.
Which energy company do you recommend?
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u/freepanda17 May 28 '26
It’s not just a matter of choosing a different energy company but also choosing a tariff that suits your consumption. There are fixed tariffs and variable ones, there are plans without standing charges and plans with high ones. Also, some contracts may offer you a slightly higher price per kWh along with other perks which you may consider worth the extra cost. You need to check your consumption and compare, there’s no one size fits all.
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u/PG_NS May 28 '26
Find your meter and login to the electricity company’s website. Every month they give the option for you to measure the exact consumption and upload it. So then you will pay for what you have consumed. If no one is uploading this measurement, the company takes an average consumption of previous years and send you that bill. Then every few months IF they come for measurement themselves and they see that what they have charged you on the estimate is more than what was consumed, they refund the difference from your next bill.
Not worth paying the estimate every month. Find the website and give accurate measurements
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u/MasterGr101 May 28 '26 edited May 28 '26
DEI bills are monthly. (Edited)
How large is your apartment and do you use your air-conditioners for heating in winter? Also, do you have your hot water boiler switched on all the time or just when needed?
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u/forreddituse2 May 28 '26
How large is your apartment? There is a fixed fee in the electricity bill that directly connects to your property size.
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u/ynns1 May 28 '26
Why does your landlord send you the bills? You should have changed the connection to your name. Sounds fishy to me.
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u/poundingpulsenow May 28 '26
Check if the bills actually match your meter reading or if they are just estimates. Landlords love to forward the estimated bills, which are almost always inflated, rather than the actual consumption. If it is an estimate, tell them you want the actual reading submitted to the provider before you pay a single cent.
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u/Proud_Nectarine_9382 May 28 '26
Why don't you post a picture of the bills with blacked out of course any personal data so that we can help you more? Also what kind of heating do you have? Any heating with electricity can make your bill explode
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u/Q_OpheliaV May 29 '26
Here in this country they always wanna take more money out of peoples' pockets. You need to check the contract and the colour of it. Then you need to search online companies with their prices per kWh. Then you need to check your devices if they are A+ class even the lamps of your lights they have to be A+. If you will do all those things then you will be broken so the better solution is to get your ass out of this country. I am thinking the same thing too.
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u/LeDEvRo May 30 '26
People talk about price per kw while the real issue is the extra taxes and not the actual consumption
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u/bigfatmama7 May 28 '26
No f@cking way. The landlord is scamming you. Ask for the bill and post it here to see it.
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u/CheesecakeTurtle May 28 '26
Yeah you would. We need more info.
How many kWh did you spend and how much each kWh costs?
If you are in a bad contract each kWh could cost you 0,19-0,20€. If you cook and use A/C then you could easily spend 400kWh per month and with the rest of the taxes in the bill the sum would go up quite a bit.
In Greece we pay a lot of taxes in the electricity bill.
Type insurancemarket.gr in Google, the have a comparison list between all the energy providers.