£100 per month DD for my electricity only...

Check your bills, have you built up a debt due to not previously paying enough to cover your usage. Do you provide readings if you receive an estimated bill? Do you only use electricity e.g. no gas?

I have electricity only although I pay by meter. I am paying off £6 per week arrears, but am still putting in £40 per week and I think it is very expensive. I have spoke to EON and they say that is the correct amount.

I have a 3 bedroom house, 2 adults 3 kids. However, no one is in the house during the day, and my heating is storage heaters on economy 7 tarrif. I have really tried to cut back by batch cooking so I don't have to cook full meals every evening, appliances are not left on when not in use, switched a few bulbs to energy saving ones. I don't have a dryer so clothes are dried on a airer. I don't know where I am going wrong as when I read threads like this where people are paying half what I am but say it is still too high for them. Any advice will be great

Hi, I'm with npower and my electric is £120 a month. I contacted then to be told it was because I had an economy 7 meter - this is redunudant as I don't have storage heaters - so unless I was to use all my electric needs between midnight and 7am I am on a loser. Solution I am now having my meter changed to a standard tariff and my electric should come down

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hold onto your hats there flies another pig.:rotfl: :rotfl:

schoolrunmum wrote: »

Aha, the plot thickens....the previous poster mentioned Economy 7.When we moved into our semi derelict house in 1990 one of the first things we did was rip out the old storage heaters and put in gas central heating. So, I called EDF just now..and surprise surprise, we have been paying for Economy 7 rates for 19 years!!!!!!I didn't notice as the bills don't mention economy 7,and even though I have called them over the years to query why our bills were so high and to ask them to check the meters etc they never once mentioned E7, or queried why we had no night usage.so,almost 20 years of excess payments down the drain...anyone reckon I can ask for the over payments back???!!!!ed off of Sussex................

What over payments? You seem to be jumping to the conclusion that you would have be better off on the standard tariff rather than E7. The break even point varies from region to region and between different suppliers but do the sums first before automatically assuming that you have paid more for all of those years.

Based on the following figures and ignoring the slight difference in Unit 1 rates (standing charge equivalent) your break even point would be approx 10%. e.g. if your night rate consumption is more than 10%, you would be better off.

EDF E7 Seeboard
Standing Charge £0.00 (£0.00 exc. VAT @ 5%) (0.00p per day inc. VAT @ 5%)
Units Rate 1 18.180p (first 1,000 units) (17.31p exc. VAT @ 5%)
Units Rate 2 11.140p (10.61p exc. VAT @ 5%)
Night Rate 4.370p (4.16p exc. VAT @ 5%)
Units Discount 0.0%

EDF Standard Seeboard
Standing Charge £0.00 (£0.00 exc. VAT @ 5%) (0.00p per day inc. VAT @ 5%)
Units Rate 1 15.350p (first 900 units) (14.62p exc. VAT @ 5%)
Units Rate 2 10.530p (10.03p exc. VAT @ 5%)
Night Rate 0.000p (0.00p exc. VAT @ 5%)
Units Discount 0.0%

(E7 Day rate - Standard rate) / (E7 day rate - E7 night rate)

(11.14 - 10.53 ) / (11.14 - 4.37)

0.61 / 6.77 = 0.09

Do the sums for yourself because E7 is not always the worst option for customers without storage heaters.