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Those jumping from Bulb who have you decided to go with?

My daughter got a set rate via a cold call from Peoples Energy, 1 year fixed £45 exit fee but the rate for electricity is a fraction over 15p a unit, much lower than their advertised rates

Igloo is showing the cheapest for me, if anyone wants to throw a £50 referral link my way to sign up with feel free to do so.
 
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ristac said:
Those jumping from Bulb who have you decided to go with?

My daughter got a set rate via a cold call from Peoples Energy, 1 year fixed £45 exit fee but the rate for electricity is a fraction over 15p a unit, much lower than their advertised rates

Igloo is showing the cheapest for me, if anyone wants to throw a £50 referral link my way to sign up with feel free to do so.
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Same here Igloo looking cheaper than Bulb by about £120 , I'm currently with Bulb
 
pinkpound said:
Same here Igloo looking cheaper than Bulb by about £120 , I'm currently with Bulb
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Someone sent me a code so I have signed up, I have sent you a code via trust hope you don't mind, just delete it if you do.

It was coming out at £148 saving a year for me, that's before Bulb's next increase and their pence per unit was lower specially on the electric which is our larger of the two utility bills
 
Still battling with Green. After I thought they had resolved things, they've just messed up AGAIN by issuing another enormous bill.

In 9 months, 20 separate bills, on 3 different accounts, all with overlapping date ranges, inconsistent meter serial numbers (on the estimated bills) and usage estimates based on these bills ranging for £300 to over £1000 a year!

Utter horror show.

Edit: Wow, their TrustPilot rating is taking a hammering. They appear to be doing nothing for anyone https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/green.energy

Double edit: After waiting an hour on hold, finally got through to someone who appears to have fixed it by removing all the crap from the account and tidying it all up. Thank you to them!
 
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ristac said:
Those jumping from Bulb who have you decided to go with?

My daughter got a set rate via a cold call from Peoples Energy, 1 year fixed £45 exit fee but the rate for electricity is a fraction over 15p a unit, much lower than their advertised rates

Igloo is showing the cheapest for me, if anyone wants to throw a £50 referral link my way to sign up with feel free to do so.
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I went with people's energy on the 20th April

14.43p per unit
22.2p per day

All electric.

It was a smooth change over from Bulb energy who would have been £150 dearer for the year.

North London btw.
 
Trifid said:
Their 12 month fixed rate is 19.15 p/kWh for me!
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They’re a strange one, their advertised price for fixed is as dear as they come yet my daughter had a cold call from them and they were offered a 12 month fixed at a similar kind of rate to kona786

I’ve signed up to Igloo now, with the £50 signing up referral and pinkpound signing up through my link I’ve got a nice £100 head start, no exit fee so I’ll be watching my costs closely.

Electric
15.049
22.64

Gas
2.624
26.075
 
no idea what said:
Anyone here with PFP energy? They're coming up a LOT cheaper for me, currently with Bulb.
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Citizens Advice on energy companies have been quoted as saying PFP Energy and ENSTROGA are the poorest performers. It’s a “red top” so usually I’d ignore everything they say accept this time they’re quoting citizens advice as their source: https://www.mirror.co.uk/money/best-worst-energy-suppliers-based-23826300

On checking Trustpilot it would take someone braver than me to switch to them. I’ve found another article stating their customer service centre has very recently been switched to India
 
ristac said:
Citizens Advice on energy companies have been quoted as saying PFP Energy and ENSTROGA are the poorest performers. It’s a “red top” so usually I’d ignore everything they say accept this time they’re quoting citizens advice as their source: https://www.mirror.co.uk/money/best-worst-energy-suppliers-based-23826300

On checking Trustpilot it would take someone braver than me to switch to them. I’ve found another article stating their customer service centre has very recently been switched to India
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Excellent, thank you :D
 
SP customer here. I got an email two days ago saying my current tariff was comign to an end at the end of June 2021, giving me, offering me another. I wanted to find out more so clicked the email link, assumign it would show me the rates and terms first, before I could make my decision whether to go for it, or switch. Very much to my annoyance, this single click automatically confirmed an agreement to the change of tariff!!!

WHen I did manage to find out the tariff rates and terms afterwards, turns out this new one has a £30 exit fee per utility (so £60 for gas and leccy)!

I am well annoyed at this; I would never have agreed to the change if I was going to be locked in.

I can see on Uswitch better rates from EOn.

I will call SP tomorrow to see if I can cancel this switch.
 
DB_SamX said:
SP customer here. I got an email two days ago saying my current tariff was comign to an end at the end of June 2021, giving me, offering me another. I wanted to find out more so clicked the email link, assumign it would show me the rates and terms first, before I could make my decision whether to go for it, or switch. Very much to my annoyance, this single click automatically confirmed an agreement to the change of tariff!!!

WHen I did manage to find out the tariff rates and terms afterwards, turns out this new one has a £30 exit fee per utility (so £60 for gas and leccy)!

I am well annoyed at this; I would never have agreed to the change if I was going to be locked in.

I can see on Uswitch better rates from EOn.

I will call SP tomorrow to see if I can cancel this switch.
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14 day cooling off period.
 
Anyone who went from GNE when they closed, to EDF have their credit back yet? Looks like it might be via cheque rather then into the EDF account?
 
BigBoy said:
14 day cooling off period.
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Does change of tariff fall within 14 day cooldown?

Anyway they have replied and cancelled the change apparently. Now to decide what to do... Eon is cheaper but I'm tempted by Octopus for a few £ more a month for 100% green energy.
 
Scottish Power emailed me and are putting up prices. I'm moving house in a few weeks though so I guess it's far safer to wait until after the move and look at the market.
 
You may as well end your contract with SP when you leave that house unless you are tied in with exit fees, you will default to being a new account with the supplier at the new address on day 1.

Then you can look at prices and switch to a new supplier at the new property, make sure you get meter readings for accurate figures on the day you move in, and when the switch occurs.
 
HungryHippos said:
You may as well end your contract with SP when you leave that house unless you are tied in with exit fees, you will default to being a new account with the supplier at the new address on day 1.

Then you can look at prices and switch to a new supplier at the new property, make sure you get meter readings for accurate figures on the day you move in, and when the switch occurs.
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I thought it took some time for new accounts to be set up? SP are moving me onto their standard tariff so I figured just move with them and find a new supplier. I don't think there are any exit fees on their standard tariff.
 
ChrisD. said:
I thought it took some time for new accounts to be set up? SP are moving me onto their standard tariff so I figured just move with them and find a new supplier. I don't think there are any exit fees on their standard tariff.
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When you move to the new house it will already be on a supplier, even a new build the builder will put it onto one at the point where you get the keys.

In fact trying to move SP over to the new one will take the normal switching sort of time to sort out, so I'd exit with SP when you quit that house, pay the new supplier for any use you have between move in date and switching to new supplier date.
 
HungryHippos said:
In fact trying to move SP over to the new one will take the normal switching sort of time to sort out, so I'd exit with SP when you quit that house, pay the new supplier for any use you have between move in date and switching to new supplier date.
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Cheers, I'd forgotten you take over with the new supplier.
 
When you move house the supplier stays with the house and you take over the new supply at the new house. If you are under contract when you move you have to switch back to the old supplier within a set period or pay the exit fees.

Just don’t sign up to another 12 months with SP as you’ll have to switch to them within 30/60 days of moving or you’ll have to pay the exit fee.

Just let the SP lapse on to the standard tariff and let the new occupants sort that out (it will switch to the standard tariff when they move in anyway as the SP contract is with you and not them). You’ll then be free to pick who you want at the new house, you’ll probably be on one fo the big 6 but you’ll be free to switch to whoever and not under any contract.
 
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