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who should i change to? totally confused!
received letter from energy provider yesterday saying due to increasing energy prices they are putting up bills by 12%. present provider is more expensive but customer service excellent and they have freephone number. read martin's article and looked at recommended sites- savings could be made. used other comparison sites…
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Severn Trent Gas & Electricity
:confused: I'm with British Gas Dual Fuel at the moment but have been offered cheaper by Severn Trent. In view of the bad publicity about Severn Trent Fraud Probe at the moment has anyone got any comments on whether its a good idea to change to them or not? They are not on any of the price comparision sites. Something to…
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Paying British Gas by direct debit
If there's a recent thread on this topic then by all means merge it please BG's I took the option some time ago to pay my bill by Direct Debit to take advantage of however much it was off my bill each year, but no matter how often I try to reset the payment level to something sensible it always creeps up again until I have…
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High Gas Usage?
We live in a three bedroom house with mostly solid walls (little insulation) and the meter shows us using 10 units of gas per day - is this high? Additional info: We only use gas for heating and hot water and the heating has only been on all day for the last couple of days; we were using 5-6 units per day with the heating…
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Alantic -Electric & Energy' any good ?
Hi just wondering..... Alantic -Electric & Energy' any good ? Thx
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Damn Scottish Power annual energy assesment!
I am incensed with Scottish Power! I switched to them from London Energy which took my monthly payments down from £31 to £28, not a huge saving but every little helps right? I was with LE for years and the £31 pmonth always covered my usage and occasionally left me in credit. i missed one payment with SP which i paid by…
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Problems switching to EDF Energy (Gas)
Has anyone else had problems switching to EDF Energy? I applied through Energyhelpline on 14th Sept, to switch to EDF Energy for my gas. Although I received a letter on 5 Oct, giving me a card to write on details of my gas meter, which I sent back, many weeks later, and I haven't heard of a switchover date. I phoned them…
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IGT Domestic standard charge
Just wondering if anyone knew anymore about this charge. We moved into a new house 14 months ago and appear to be paying this charge. We never had this charge at our last house and it seems to be £20 a month. Scottish Gas have said its the builder getting his money back, but the builder has already been paid for putting in…
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Powergen are a shambles !!
DO NOT TOUCH POWERGEN with a bargepole, they have been featured by BBC LOOK EAST news programme several nights running, they have a shambles of a record of widely inaccurate billing, call centre staff that are poorly trained and cannot solve issues. Watch at 6.30 pm tonight on BBC 1 if you live in Norfolk/Suffolk/ Essex/…
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Npower V's EDF ENERGY??
Hi All, Can you help me to decide which one (if any)to go with? Am currently an Npower customerpaying £46 by dd each month. This is£23 for gas and £23 for electric. We are a family of 5 in a 3 bed mid terrace. Warm air CHand gas fired hot water so no boiler. Npower give me a £50 dual fuel discount, I dont know how there…
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Powergen - About time too!!!!
I just found this on another site - Not holding my breath though! Powergen customer chief shocked by poor service standards 03 November 2005 14:29 Utilities firm Powergen has admitted that some its customers have received "frankly appalling" service from the company's call centres. The admission came after complaints from…
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London Energy Fixed Price 2008
Got a flyer in the post this morning from London Energy. Looks like they are doing a Fixed Price tarriff till 2008. With the offer ending 30 November 2005. Although the website states 31st December 2005? As a dual-fuel online customer, what concerns me is that it's not clear what the prices are (they just say call 0800 096…
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British Gas Discounted Electricity
I am really annoyed with British Gas. I've got dual fuel with them and I've just run some comparison sites and find that I can save over £150 with British Gas on exactly what I'm on now. The comprison sites quote a discounted rate for electricity whereas I'm on the standard rate and didn't know about this discounted rate.…
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Powergen economy 10 ?
Hi everyone, just joined today great website. Can anyone help, We are looking to switch elec suppler currently with powergen on their economy 10 tariff. ( 7 hours cheap night & 3hour afternoon boost for water & storage heaters.) Do any other companies offer this type of tariff, cant seem to find any only economy 7. Not…
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5000 Nectar points EDF Energy
Got an email last week from Nectar , if you switch to EDF energy via their link you get 5000 points !! Will the savings quoted in Energyhelpline , £ 65 with london energy still apply ?, is this better than getting cashback ?
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Price Comparison Sites....
All Sorry if this has already been asked - I had a quick scan but couldn't find any reference. Anyway.. I have been using the price comparison sites this afternoon to see what is the best company to go to and have a couple of questions that people may (hopefully) be able to answer. 1. When the comparison site shows the…
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Price Comparisons
I'm a new member to the forum. I read of Martins advice to change suppliers and so went onto the comparison websites. I am currently with Scottish Power. I filled in the details as requested and received the result which advised me of some decent savings. Can someone please advise me how they can save me money when their…
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British Gas ?
Not sure if in right section ?? Just wondering 'British Gas' are offering the oportunity to sign up for price protection 2010 - giving a 4.8% discount on our electricity rates. And the discounted fixed price will last right up until April 2010. If you cancel before 2010, however, you will pay a cancellation fee of up to…
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transco gas card nicking my money??
hello, I live in a privately rented house, which as a (british gas) gas card with a transco machine. recently ran out of credit, it was at zero (we have the emergency credit turned off) so I went to buy some more from a paypoint, and they said I couldnt buy £30 in one go, they would have to put it through as £20 then £10.…
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What are best and worst energy efficient appliances
Hi, Just wondering what are the best and worst efficient and most power consuming appliances. I know its always good to switch off the telly properly when not using it (rather than leave it on standby) but what about computers, alarm clocks, radios, etc. If it doesn't have one of those energy efficient stickers like you…
