Soldato
Send martin lewis a tweet tell him Shadow says let granny have her two bars on her electric heater next winter and everyone pay the full year ahead 
Now where is my MBE
Now where is my MBE
Its not at all
SSE
Standing charge - 31.63
Day rate - 22.25
Night rate - 16.77
Shell
Standing - 54.59p
Day - 33.57p
Night - 18.58p
I have not been given any new rates, so cant answer.
Current rate?
Just received an email from Shell Energy (I was with Pure Planet) that as of April I will be moved from their Flexible 6 to their Flexible 7 tariff. Projected increase is £472 a year. These are the rates:
Your electricity rates will change from 20.076p to 27.358p per kWh and your standing charge per day will change from 26.82p to 48.52p.
Your gas rates will change from 3.983p to 7.280p per kWh and your standing charge per day will change from 26.11p to 27.22p.
Welp.
Your electricity rates will change from 20.076p to 27.358p per kWh and your standing charge per day will change from 26.82p to 48.52p.
Your gas rates will change from 3.983p to 7.280p per kWh and your standing charge per day will change from 26.11p to 27.22p.
Welp.
Better than mine. 33.57p per KWh and 54.59p standing. Projected increase a year £640
In contract, Green rates (Sturgeon Fixed 12 Month) were;
Standing - 18.00p
Day - 14.02p
Night - 11.06p
!!
I just got a raise at work and this basically wiped it out. I'm gutted.
Yep (If you're on 20k or lower and get a raise of 3.5%)
Electric
19.74p/kWh
23.76p/day
Gas
3.76p/kWh
23.85p/day
I got a theory why standing charges might be so variable, the ofgem documents are vague (I think deliberately) but its mentioned the costs of preserving account credit for customers who are migrated to a new supplier (on existing going into liquidation) the cost is shared by other consumers (instead of by the government as it should be) and it might be that the individual companies are allowed to stack that onto the standing charge rather than it been spread by the industry as a whole, so if you are a customer of a supplier who had to take on lots of refugees you then pay for those refugees.
Does this sound plausible?
If I am right the suppliers who took on the most refugees will have highest SC.
Those rates would have ended last September when green went bust, you’ll have been paying much more than that since then.
From ofgem.
It's these costs that are being added to the standing charge.
Soldato
Was on Green. Went bump, transferred to Shell
Email from them yesterday
Email from them yesterday
Same email (also PP to Shell) but different rates, guessing different area?
Your electricity rates will change from 20.680p to 28.455p per kWh and your standing charge per day will change from 24.11p to 43.39p.
Your gas rates will change from 4.169p to 7.479p per kWh and your standing charge per day will change from 26.11p to 27.22p.
Yep my theory is, that these are added on on by suppliers who take on the refugees rather than spread across industry, so some suppliers will become more expensive as a result.
Soldato
With the events of the last 24 hours in mind a 2 year fix is looking very tempting right now, even if it is ~10% more expensive than the cap. Cant see prices going anywhere but up in October :s
Is anyone offering 2 years?
I can see this killing the government in all honesty, if they remain disconnected as they currently are and just let the cap keep track, there will be riots potentially.
Caporegime
I will just offset the price by burning my rubbish in a oil drum and huddle around it during the winter.
Yes I know, they ended long ago hence the “in contrast…” part
Id join the leccy riots.
It’ll be £200 a month soon for electric in a 2 bed apartment in the city!