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bigmike20vt said:
i have to be honest and say even as someone massively in support of more on land wind turbines....it would really p.... me off having banks and banks of them in my back yard and yet still paying sky high prices whilst all that energy is being sent down south to people paying less than I was.

People living within sight of them** paying 50% more standing charges than I am, it just isnt fair imo.

**my mate sent me a scan of his Octopus bill and we compared it with mine, both on intelligent Octopus but the difference was i am East Anglia he is in the North west.
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To be frank, and I mean no offence, if you living in an area suitable for wind turbines, your in a far better position than the millions in cities. Even with the turbines. I think you dont realise how good you have it, and how good you still would have it.

However I am a supporter of standardising standing charges. I dont consider the differential based on post code fair. I am also saying this as someone who would see a SC rise as I am in one of the cheaper SC areas.
 
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Better still buy/hire trenching equipment a cable layer and crew, restore the land as you go and set them off digging.
At one time they would have been itinerant, probably Irish immigrants, road gangs living cheaply in caravans as they worked. Life is now so complicated.
 
I just signed up to 25 hrs of free electricity with uSwitch
not sure precisely how it works IE how you get the money out however they claim you get to choose 5 hrs through each weekend in November to get free electricity.
hopefully it does not cause issues with intelligent octopus as that wasn't an option to add on my uSwitch account so it defaulted to flexible octopus.
if they give me cash back at flexible octopus prices for 5 hrs when I am charging my car on intelligent I will make a fair chunk but I can't imagine that will be deemed fair!.
 
Just looking at the MSE offer for BG, currently with them as it is, so an easy switch. MSE CEC says it cheaper but I'm not so sure... should I switch? The jump in Elec SC seems quite high?

Tariff is Fixed Tariff v63 vs Collective Nov26


GAS:

Unit rate
Current: 6.080p kWh
New: 5.601p kWh

Standing charge
Current :24.141p per day
New: 25.758p per day

Electric:

Unit rate
Current: 23.540p kWh
New: 23.190p kWh

Standing charge
Current: 39.770p per day
New: 44.623p per day
 
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V_R said:
Just looking at the MSE offer for BG, currently with them as it is, so an easy switch. MSE CEC says it cheaper but I'm not so sure... should I switch? The jump in Elec SC seems quite high?

Tariff is Fixed Tariff v63 vs Collective Nov26


GAS:

Unit rate
Current: 6.080p kWh
New: 5.601p kWh

Standing charge
Current :24.141p per day
New: 25.758p per day

Electric:

Unit rate
Current: 23.540p kWh
New: 23.190p kWh

Standing charge
Current: 39.770p per day
New: 44.623p per day
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Check what some others are such as Fuse Energy in your area.
 
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Diddums said:
Just moved from Octopus to Home Energy(?). Saves around £200 a year. We were fixed until June 2026 and paying more than the going rate so can't complain tbh.
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I'm just curious and wanted to know how your switch went. Mine was relatively straight forward, apart from gas smart meter taking about two weeks to register properly to Home Energy.
 
Octopus tracker is up at the end of the month, not sure where going to do another year, with the way the mrs using the heating in winter I might fix the gas and keep the leccy on tracker.
 
Diddums said:
Just moved from Octopus to Home Energy(?). Saves around £200 a year. We were fixed until June 2026 and paying more than the going rate so can't complain tbh.
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I've just done the same and calculated it will also save around £200 a year. Fuse was next cheapest but didn't want to be stuck with exit fees.
 
It looks like Tomato are going to fold. Their website is non functional now and they haven't replied to my emails from two weeks ago and a further one last week. I haven't been billed since June when they took three payments all in one go for the previous three months they couldn't be bothered to bill me. They haven't taken any monthly direct debits apart from the three on the same day in June and Mywatts which we are supposed to be able to track our usage has never worked. Even though they have never billed me you can bet your life they will charge me £50 for leaving before my contract is up. As I have a EV I guess it's back to Octopus which is going to hurt the old wallet.
 
pastymuncher said:
It looks like Tomato are going to fold. Their website is non functional now and they haven't replied to my emails from two weeks ago and a further one last week. I haven't been billed since June when they took three payments all in one go for the previous three months they couldn't be bothered to bill me. They haven't taken any monthly direct debits apart from the three on the same day in June and Mywatts which we are supposed to be able to track our usage has never worked. Even though they have never billed me you can bet your life they will charge me £50 for leaving before my contract is up. As I have a EV I guess it's back to Octopus which is going to hurt the old wallet.
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Well if u need a code for octopus.
 
john_smith said:
I don't think i'd ever leave Octopus, but Tomato caught my eye with the EV rates.

But this thread made me see sense

www.speakev.com

Tomato Energy - Lifestyle Tariff For EV Owners

Just poked my nose in at the MSE forum and saw some recent posts re this new startup domestic energy supplier. Did a quote online and key highlights are based on my post code (Merseyside) and having an EV 1. 12 month fixed price electricity only no exit fees - so prices locked in before...
www.speakev.com www.speakev.com
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I knew they smelt bad. Took a year to come true.
 
pastymuncher said:
It looks like Tomato are going to fold. Their website is non functional now and they haven't replied to my emails from two weeks ago and a further one last week. I haven't been billed since June when they took three payments all in one go for the previous three months they couldn't be bothered to bill me. They haven't taken any monthly direct debits apart from the three on the same day in June and Mywatts which we are supposed to be able to track our usage has never worked. Even though they have never billed me you can bet your life they will charge me £50 for leaving before my contract is up. As I have a EV I guess it's back to Octopus which is going to hurt the old wallet.
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The usual advice is to do nothing, the operator of last resort process will kick in and you will automatically transfer to a new supplier.

Your old tariff stands until you are formally transfered and at which point you can switch to whoever you want as normal.
 
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pastymuncher said:
It looks like Tomato are going to fold. Their website is non functional now and they haven't replied to my emails from two weeks ago and a further one last week. I haven't been billed since June when they took three payments all in one go for the previous three months they couldn't be bothered to bill me. They haven't taken any monthly direct debits apart from the three on the same day in June and Mywatts which we are supposed to be able to track our usage has never worked. Even though they have never billed me you can bet your life they will charge me £50 for leaving before my contract is up. As I have a EV I guess it's back to Octopus which is going to hurt the old wallet.
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Entirely predictable that. Questions have to asked at ofgem here.
 
So are we, as bill payers, on the hook for the customer balances of Tomato if it goes under, like what happened a few years ago, or are customer balances ringfenced now?
 
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Surprised. Thought all those questionable popup firms were stopped because they couldn’t weather it when market went against their bets. Then they just disappear….
 
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