Budget energy

Just been reading through all the messages.
I have just discovered the Budget elec people and they are sending me out a 'welcome pack'. I am currently with airtricity and although locked into a 2yr contact with them, the Budget people aid they would pay the £50 fee from jumping out of airtricity and credit my elec a/c with the £50.

I think the budget energy people seem the cheapest and I shall be reading all the small print about direct debits etc...

Anyone else changing/changed....and are paying DD.....are you still happy with this Budget company?

happy_gardener wrote: »

Just been reading through all the messages.
I have just discovered the Budget elec people and they are sending me out a 'welcome pack'. I am currently with airtricity and although locked into a 2yr contact with them, the Budget people aid they would pay the £50 fee from jumping out of airtricity and credit my elec a/c with the £50.

I think the budget energy people seem the cheapest and I shall be reading all the small print about direct debits etc...

Anyone else changing/changed....and are paying DD.....are you still happy with this Budget company?

I am pretty content with Budget.Switched around September 2011 just before they had a rise in prices as did NIE. Still a bit confused as to what i am actually saving mainly because of the price rise and the fact that this winter has been milder than last year so i cannot really calculate any savings made.According the the money i have fed into my keypad meter it amounts to the same as i used last year but probably less than it would have been had i stayed with NIE...If you know what i mean.:eek:
None the wiser really but i live in hope.

happy_gardener wrote: »

Just been reading through all the messages.
I have just discovered the Budget elec people and they are sending me out a 'welcome pack'. I am currently with airtricity and although locked into a 2yr contact with them, the Budget people aid they would pay the £50 fee from jumping out of airtricity and credit my elec a/c with the £50.

I think the budget energy people seem the cheapest and I shall be reading all the small print about direct debits etc...

Anyone else changing/changed....and are paying DD.....are you still happy with this Budget company?

I'm paying BE by DD. There was an issue where they changed my DD amount without telling me (see prev pages where I and someone else phoned up and gave off!) But they take my money every month and I've just had the meter read so awaiting a bill through any day now.

All ok at the moment.....

rolo1 wrote: »

Actually hazel there is a simpler way to work out savings.

Go to keypad and press 2 twice to get weekly cost , say e.g £15

Then divide by 0.1481 to get units used, so 15/0.1481 = 101.282 units used

101.282 units x 0.1737 (PowerNI Cost) = £17.59

saving £2.59 p/w or representative of £134 per year!

Thanks rolo1 .......easy??:rotfl:Maths was never my strong point.:D
With all that i still think i am on an even keel with regards to last year's use with NIE so no better or no worse,just the same roughly.
However i can be thankful i switched as it probably have been more.

We pay by DD too and I was wondering when we should get out bill although we signed up with BE about the middle of November 2011 and we haven't had a meter reading yet.

I signed my parents up for BE on Thursday 2nd February, I hope they get transferred over without any hassle!