Gas and Electric bills

Glaucus said:
Expensive even compared to fixed rate tarrif, or at least for me.
Also they don't offer fixed rate tariffs.

They used to be cheap, seems they aren't anymore.
About ~£100 a year more than fixed rate tariffs.

But does depend how many units you use.

Ebico £1094, first utility £963, Scottish power (bottom one) £1054, need to check the online fixed Price for Scottish power.
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Yeah, £216 more expensive than my Scottish Power fixed.
 
bainbridge said:
I've been with British gas for both gas and electricity for 7 years & can't be bothered to change due to the research I'd have to do & the fact I'd have to wait a year to see if I'd saved anything.
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What research? It's not like you have to write to every supplier requesting their tariffs and then spend days calculating costs by hand. Granted, suppliers deliberately make their tariffs excessively complicated in order to make comparison difficult, but you can just use a comparison website to do it for you. All you need is your usage figures, which you should be able to get from your bills. I used energyhelpline.com, but there are others.

You shouldn't have to wait a year to see if you've saved anything. If you use the same amount of energy and you're paying less per unit, you should save something. It's the same gas and electricity, after all.
 
Glaucus said:
Most(probably all) fixed terms are like that, untill the contract ends.

Scottish power is no different ~£51 cancellation fee within the fixed price contract.
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That's not what's being advertised and it's not what was in the switch confirmation email I've just had.

I don't really care if there's a fee or not, but I doubt if the information would be completely wrong.

http://www.scottishpower.co.uk/products/online-fixed-price-energy.aspx

CANCELLATION
  • No Cancellation Charges
  • You can end this Offer at any time before 31st March 2014 by taking another of our Offers or by switching supplier
  • The agreement will also be cancelled if you move house
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EDIT: Aha, I see the one you were looking at. They do 3 different fixed tariffs. The one fixed until October 2014 does have a cancellation fee.
 
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Right finished. still First:utility even if you account for cancelation fee

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Spreadsheet if you can make sense of it
http://www.freefilehosting.net/energybills2
(open Office)

whilst trying to find fixed tarrifs one comparison site reckoned the Scottish power fixed was £970 :rolleyes: its not even a complicated tariff, should check out some of the Npower ones which are even more crazy and the first x-KWH change depending on month.

As I said I was only looking for 2014 fixed, which is why there's not many. if you did it for every tariff you would be their for years.
 
koolpc said:
Well, with energy prices rising, anyone switching suppliers?
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yep. Moving from Atlantic to Scottish Power, fixed price till Dec 2014.

Feeling pretty pleased - not only is it £75 per month cheaper (for both gas/leccy combined) than the current supplier, but I just missed the recent price increase of 13% that Atlantic put through.

Yay!
 
mrbell1984 said:
I'm with Eon too and I know people moving too them. :)
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Top Bloke! lol

I've worked residential change of supplier back office, business change of supplier back office and now process development and process change for them over the last 3 years (in a months time).

Its a funny industry, the biggest problems with energy suppliers is the process' and guidelines set out by the regulatory body (not Ofgen for those who think it is) are 20 years out of date and were created for a semi paper based system... despite it all being electronic now.

You will be mortified at how lax a lot of the big six are at sorting stuff out between suppliers or even how arrogant some of them are. Many a day i've wanted to bang my head up a wall.

I know this will sound biased and everyone has bad stories but EON are prob the most proactive i've seen.
 
2 Bedroom flat, single occupancy currently overpaying at £41 PCM but it should really be £30 tops but I just can't be bothered to keep calling the Eon and telling them to change my the direct debit and them not doing it.

I'm on economy 10 I have a choice of two suppliers but the advantage for me is when I turn on storage heaters it costs half the normal rate plus I get cheaper electric units at various points in the day.
 
Angilion said:
I just switched to Scottish Power for a fix at about current rates until May 2014. I liked having years of records to easily compare usage over time, but not enough to pay 10+% extra for it.
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You can just enter your gas and electricity usage into a spreadsheet for free.

I've been on a 3-year fixed tariff from 2011 luckily.
 
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DireEmblem said:
Does anyone here also see the point of switching suppliers every 3-6 months say?

Thats what I do. The offers you get on sites such as quidco arent as good as what they used to be for switching, but over the past year I've managed to switch companies roughly every 3-4 months, and received at least £100 cashback.

That and switch to a supplier that has better rates for a higher gas usage in the winter, and electric in the summer, although I take this into consideration when switching.
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Some suppliers charge more upfront but will add discounts at set periods in the contract. Something like we'll give you £180 after 12 months, as an example. This will bring them down on price but only if you see it through.
 
I'm just looking to change at the moment. We are with EDF on the standard Dual Fuel tariff which is about to go up. We can change tariff to the fixed to 2015 but it narcs me that while the cost won't go up we could be paying over a lot if prices decrease. I think I might go foe a capped or discounted one instead.
 
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