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Scottish Power
I took up an offer with Scot power one year ago, as the offer was £8 p/m cheaper than my existing supplier. Taking my usage and meter readings the monthly D/D was set and agreed at £55 p/m. At the end of my 1st quarter I recieved a letter from them stating that the monthly D/D was to be increased to £75 p/m. I contacted…
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Should I capp or should I stay put?
Can i have thoughts on whether you guys think capping is the right thing to do now. By switching to dual fuel and different tariff with british gas the comparision sites say I can save 18% and capping with scottish power for a year -2%. I am just not sure what is the best thing to do :cool:
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Atlantic/Southern used my debit card surely not allowed?
I left Atlantic/Southern a few months ago and have agreed a weekly sum to clear outstanding money. Giro's they sent me said pay off this amount then we'll send you a payment card for the rest. I made the first payment last week over the phone on their automated payment line with hubby's debit card and today looking at the…
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Just Got Fixed 2011 In Time
had been considering it for awhile and finally signed on for scottish powers 2011 deal on tuesday 2nd july , called yesterday to make sure as I noticed deal was no longer on site and new deal was only til 2009 and yearly price has more than doubled and girl said yes you just got it in time deal was taken down from site on…
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Major Comparison diff, same tariff - can anyone help pls?
I have been looking this week at the various capped / fixed tariffs on energyhelpline and moneysupermarket and the results are a complete mystery for the same providers and I wondered if anyone can help shed some light on why for me please. We are currently on standard tariffs so thought we may as well fix given the…
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Gas bill help
Hi i had a letter today saying my monthly payments would go up from £17 to £39.!!! I have copied this from my bill.....im a bit thick does the total at the bottom mean in credit or owing.?? Bill period: 01 Apr 2008 to 25 Jun 2008 Starting balance: £-96.14 Gas you've used: £111.20 Payments received - thank you cr£51.00…
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utility switching frequency!
Hi, Can ayone tell me if there is a lmitation on the number of times you can switch Gas/Electricity suppliers in a year? Thanks
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Metre readings and the up and coming increases!!
I have meter readings for both gas and electricity and am very concerned about the predicted 40% increase! Can you get a capped rate on meters? Will a company Waver the fee for removing meters if I say I will switch? Thanks in advance :confused:
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Any way to automate meter reading?
Does anyone know of a way to automate, either gas or electricity readings, i would like daily if possible,and to be able to get them onto my computer to do some analysis. I have a pretty old meters, so i understand i cant interface to them directly, but is there any other kind of device that will emable me to do this, and…
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Crazy British Gas electric bill
Decided it was time to switch energy suppliers a couple of months ago and I used this site to find the best deal. We switched away from British Gas to e-on. Got a final gas bill from BG about a month ago. Was a bit more than I was expecting, but not too bad. Paid it. Finally got a final electric bill from BG. They want…
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Which capped tarriff?
I've done the searches through the comparison sites, and they alll bring up the same results in the same order, but I'm still confused as to which is the best deal to go for. These were my results, can anyone advise as to the best thing to do as I'm not sure how to determine the best capped rate deal? Scottish PowerFixed…
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which is cheaper? Gas or Electricity?
hiya, Bit of a random query, but just one of those things that pops up from time to time and gets me thinking. What is cheaper? Gas or Electricity? It came up in conversation last night cooking dinner... OH uses the kettle to boil water for a pan of pasta, claiming that it's more economical. I found it very strange to…
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Taken off eon Extra Saver 5 plan?
I have just received a letter today from eon saying that the type of metering at my home isn't supported by my current "Extra saver 5 plan" deal with them & from 10th june I have been moved onto a standard deal :mad: Has anyone else received a letter like this? I'm not sure if they are just trying to pull a fast one here?…
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how to switch, should i switch?!
hi I'm a fairly new homeowner and have a query about switching utility suppliers. here is my issue: We are currently with N Power (supplier before we moved in 8 months ago) on their standard dual fuel tarriff. We are £3 credit for electricity and £127 DEBIT for gas (from the cold winter months!!). I would like to switch…
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Help with Gas bill issue
Hi all, Again I find myself hoping for some helpful advice from the experts on this forum. We are with SWALEC for both our electricity and Gas. We moved into our new house last November. The previous owners were on those card and key devices for both their gas and electricty, and we asked for them to be removed so we could…
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Long Term Capping Electricity prices
Hi After seeing Martin Lewis on TV recently he seems to be advocating long term price capping on electricity bills. Have just checked on a few price comparison sites from this web site and they only appear to come up with capped offers for approx 1 year. Doing the sums if we take the cheapest capped offer Scottish Hydro it…
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Opaque Pricing, impossible to compare fairly
Last night a British Gas salesman turned up at my door unnanounced and uninvited which made me angry as I was comfortably reading a great book on the sofa and he disturbed me! Anyhoo, I digress. Basically he was trying to get us to come back to B.Gas. I explained that we'd only recently bought the house (2 months ago), had…
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Gas CH and oven to Electric
Ok, just about to move into a new flat which is all electric. Has night storage heaters and electric oven and hob etc etc, which I've never had before. All my other flats were gas central with gas oven and hob. My last years gas bill was nearly £600 and about £250 on electric. With this new place what sort of bill price…
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Scottish Power "Claim Back Money" Trickery?
Hi, I can't quite believe what I heard today from a Scottish Power door-to-door salesman...not heard this one before and am shocked that it's OK to use this tactic...I'm with nPower at the moment. Soon as I saw the Scottish Power jacket I said I wasn't interested...but he assured me he wasn't selling (yeah). Apparently I…
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electricity bill
i tried to switch from British gas (had both electric and gas with thme) last August to Sainsbury's. i owed some arrears to British Gas and Sainsbur's rang me to tell me they could nto do the switch becasue British Gas would not allow them to unless i paid the arrears. i arranged to pay the arrears of by monthly…
