Energy Prices (Strictly NO referrals!)

Gammawolf said:
You think you have it bad with BG, these are all the bills they sent me in the past year... that last one months ago was only for 2 months of gas. Smart meter for electric is sending usage and i give them gas readings every month..

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Pfft I went a whole year with octopus on a smart meter with no bills even though through their portal I could see all my daily usage etc.

Previous to that Npower had the record. They went 7 years without sending me a bill. When they did they could only go back one year despite me using 42,000 kWh of electric during those 7 years :)

And then they had to spread that cost out over 3 years :)
 
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Gammawolf said:
You think you have it bad with BG, these are all the bills they sent me in the past year... that last one months ago was only for 2 months of gas. Smart meter for electric is sending usage and i give them gas readings every month..

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The only way I could get BG to actually bill me regularly was to move to whole-amount DD. Prior to that both my gas and elec accounts were going 3-6 months without an actual bill (despite electric smart meter and submitted gas readings monthly).I guess now that they only bill on actual usage they can't get away with speculative "estimated" bills every 6 months. They only get paid for what I actually use now.
 
chrcoluk said:
Still good on TOU/trackers.

18p unit during the afternoon today, and gas is 5.61p lower than even the April cap.

Normal tariffs just feel so dated now, going to be really gutted when this expires next July.
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when the wind blows it is cracking on, probably some trees down in Cambs, don't know if we can see new hornsea2 actual output.

theyv'e forecast a mild winter but haven't seen a wind forecast
 
So EDF refunded the credit I'd built up on my account to see me over winter and raised my direct debit at the same time. Having spoken with them, they told me that if don't want to keep the refund then to pay it back to them when it lands in my bank and call up to lower my direct debit. Great, so why couldn't they have just lowered my direct debit and wait for me to ask for my refund? :confused:

On another note, I still haven't received the £67 yet. When I asked about this, they didn't know themselves when I would get the £67 and was told to "just wait".
 
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darael said:
So EDF refunded the credit I'd built up on my account to see me over winter and raised my direct debit at the same time. Having spoken with them, they told me that if don't want to keep the refund then to pay it back to them when it lands in my bank and call up to lower my direct debit. Great, so why couldn't they have just lowered my direct debit and wait for me to ask for my refund? :confused:

On another note, I still haven't received the £67 yet. When I asked about this, they didn't know themselves when I would get the £67 and was told to "just wait".
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What advantage do you get from having EDF hold your money for you?
 
OFGEN pursued(and fined no?) companies for holding people money and pre-emptive direct debit rises, so, maybe not surprising they are stopping that.
 
Deluxe1 said:
I don't pay by DD just put a meter reading in at the end of the month. The two £66 payments were just credited to my account.
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Exactly how I do it with EDF and I too have had 2 x £66 credits. Obviously it's a mistake, I've had nothing but issues with EDF since I got put on their tariff when old supplier went bust. One bill they even estimated my rates the opposite way round so day & night rates were swapped with each other :confused:

I understand they are busy but I've said no end of times just stop estimating and I'll supply a meter reading every month.
 
Not sure EDF know what they're doing as when I log into the app, it says to submit a meter reading on the 'Bills & Pay' tab but then it says that I don't need to submit one on the 'Readings' tab as I have a smart meter :confused:
 
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Spending £2 a day on electricity.. just me and out most of the day...

Anyone invested in a portable power supply?

Not looking at the ridiculously big and expensive ones with solar etc, just one that I could charge at work, then take home and plug my TV/PC in every day, not sure which one to pick.
 
TV/PC would need something that could pump out a lot of Watts, that's expensive. Also any battery capacity is literally only pence worth, bigger battery = even more expensive :/

For example the fairly well regarded low end Anker here can only do 200W and is 256Wh so quarter of a kilowatt, so 8 or 9 pence worth of power.

 
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darael said:
So EDF refunded the credit I'd built up on my account to see me over winter and raised my direct debit at the same time. Having spoken with them, they told me that if don't want to keep the refund then to pay it back to them when it lands in my bank and call up to lower my direct debit. Great, so why couldn't they have just lowered my direct debit and wait for me to ask for my refund? :confused:

On another note, I still haven't received the £67 yet. When I asked about this, they didn't know themselves when I would get the £67 and was told to "just wait".
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benjii said:
What advantage do you get from having EDF hold your money for you?
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jpaul said:
OFGEN pursued(and fined no?) companies for holding people money and pre-emptive direct debit rises, so, maybe not surprising they are stopping that.
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@jpaul has it, it is now (and has been for a few years) against the rules for suppliers to hold on to you funds unnecessarily.

Basically suppliers we using customer money to make money and that's not allowed!
 
A2Z said:
Spending £2 a day on electricity.. just me and out most of the day...

Anyone invested in a portable power supply?

Not looking at the ridiculously big and expensive ones with solar etc, just one that I could charge at work, then take home and plug my TV/PC in every day, not sure which one to pick.
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Just pay the £2. FYI, if you don't have permission from your employer you can be prosecuted under the Theft Act 1968 for "abstracting electricity". They might turn a blind eye to you charging a phone but lugging a several kilogram battery to charge to power your unofficially occupied flat could be a different matter.
 
A2Z said:
Spending £2 a day on electricity.. just me and out most of the day...

Anyone invested in a portable power supply?

Not looking at the ridiculously big and expensive ones with solar etc, just one that I could charge at work, then take home and plug my TV/PC in every day, not sure which one to pick.
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Pretty sure most workplaces consider this theft and you would have more than £2 a day to worry about
 
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