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Plus the UK only has a week's supply left.Warning on the BBC about gas prices, hope we don't reach the tracker gas price cap
39.42 today for elec, highest i've ever seen it, need this snow to melt.
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What’s the gas cap ?Warning on the BBC about gas prices, hope we don't reach the tracker gas price cap
39.42 today for elec, highest i've ever seen it, need this snow to melt.
Soldato
Luckily it's supposed to warm up next week which should help. Nobody really wants their gch cranking away 24/7 at these prices.
Caporegime
30p/kWh for the tracker.
There is a lot to be said for complaining to these kinds of companies. I got my EDF bill down from negative 700 to negative 400 by complaining about every little thing (tariffs promised but then not available was a favourite).
I made UKPN pay me £30 for my kebab when we had a power cut last week. Got that through today
They might already be reacting, at first glance Dec 2024 tracker (for gas) is better than spring and summer variants, I still not examined the formula, but the unit rate is lower at current market levels, not as low as the original formula though (dec 2023 and older).
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1 week in storage, not supply.
It asks you questions when signing up, and depending on answers things change on the tariff, if you say you are a pensioner you apparently get a cheaper peak rate.
From what I understand not picking options for usage, gives you the best combination, which is what I did, e.g. you can get an extra hour of 5p, but will lose one of the 2 hour 14p slots in exchange.
I edited my post as well now, as I made a mistake.
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No, still haven't got it yet and I switched at the beginning of October. Their reason is that they didn't receive the final reading for my electricity from Octopus - they also owe me ~£200 which they won't give me until the final bill has been done. I probably owe them less than £10 as I was paid up to date just before the switch.
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Thanks, I think I will try it out as I have an EV (but normal plug charger so only 2.38kW) and even using the default Intermediate tariff I'd be better off. Their EV tariff also looks good with hour longer 5p from 12am-6am but slightly higher normal rate and SC and the 14p rate is from 10pm-12pm instead of 8.30p-10.30pm.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7vd57qzlqpo
Oh looky, British Gas owner Centrica starts putting out reports about potential gas storage level issues to panic the populous....
Next steps
Oh looky, British Gas owner Centrica starts putting out reports about potential gas storage level issues to panic the populous....
Next steps
- advise the suppliers that the price has went up and the suppliers (some of who are part of the same umbrella company as the gas producers) have to pay more
- said suppliers then complain to Government that the price cap is way too low
- Government is pressured to step in and help out the energy companies finanicially
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I am surprised we done have a saving session today. electricity seems quite steep esp for next few hrs.
Soldato
I don't really get it. I would have expected saving session to occur when the market price IS high. No session here for London (Octopus certainly haven't offered one for this region anyway).
Soldato
What exactly is the problem? I thought this effort worked really well last year. Is this simply due to the amount being credited to the energy companies / customers has dropped to an extent that most parties think it's pointless / or ala @stuman "why bother, we're getting coin from this!".
e: https://octopus.energy/blog/24-hours-to-save-saving-sessions/
I had not realised but this about sums it up, ~90% reduction in rewards.
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