Scots family sent £12,000 Scottish Power bill despite solar panels on council home

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A family facing an electricity bill of nearly £12,000 from Scottish Power are demanding answers about why they are being charged as much as £1500 per month for electricity.Last week, Martin Georgeson and his partner Caroline were given notice that Scottish Power will go to court this week to forcibly fit a pre-payment meter.To their relief, the company has since confirmed this won't happen as all warrant installations have been suspended. Read more: Falkirk Council set to hike prices for electric vehicle charging as costs soar The couple, who live in Avonbridge with their two children, say they don't accept that they can possibly be using an average of £500 electricity every month to provide heating and hot water for their modest council house.The couple's records show that one monthly bill was £1500, with others at £777 and £550.On first moving into the house, the couple were told by Falkirk Council that the house uses a Thermaflow boiler, which provides heating and hot water.The couple thought it was a new boiler and did not anticipate any problems.What they didn't know, however, was that just two months earlier a group of tenants with the same heating system had met with Scottish Power and Falkirk Council, demanding to know why their bills had suddenly gone up by 300 per cent.Mum Caroline, a recently qualified nurse, said: "When we moved in, we were told it was an electric system that provided heating and hot water and it would be very slightly more expensive."Martin added: "No-one told us it was actually going to be four or even five times what we had been paying before for almost exactly the same house."While the couple waited for answers from Scottish Power they continued to pay £68 a month, the amount they had