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Who is responsible for moving meter due to main cable in wrong property?
Who is responsible for moving meter due to main cable in wrong property? My friend moved into her flat several years ago and also bought the upstairs for her Mom. Around the same time her neighbour bought the property next door as a guest house. The problem my friend is having is that her electric meter is in her neighbour…
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Npower Business £130 Charge
Hi All, first of all i received my bill for electricity for my business in august, (which should have arrived in July) as the bill date says, it came on the same day the reminder for payment came, so they must have forgot to send the first one. I must admit that i was late in paying this bill, i spoke to someone at npower…
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Scottish Hydro Energy Care Plus tariff
Hi everyone, Is anyone who is with this company on a really low income/benefits etc? Are you having trouble with monstrous bills? Give them a call on 0800 912 0012 and discuss your problems and ask about the Energy Care Plus tariff, it is for anyone who is paying more than 10% of their income on fuel bills. I just received…
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ScottishHydroElectric rise
We received a letter on Monday 13th Oct telling us that prices are to rise by 29.2% for gas and 19.2% for electricity...from the 25th August 2008! My hubby phoned the next day to discuss raising the direct debit to cover this, and asked also if this meant we were being asked to pay more for fuel which we had already paid…
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Dolly Bird
Following advice from this website I fixed with Southern Electric for dual fuel, and it has proved to be a good deal. It is due to terminate however, at the end of November. Where do I go from here? Any suggestions welcome.
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Please HELP! My friend has been cut off electric and meter has been removed
Okay so she knows she buried her head in the sand, I've been through all the "what you should have done" messages... but in the mean time I need to help her get the electric back on ASAP!! She is at home with two small kids and no heating or lights.... The gas and electric meters were both removed... but the gas meter was…
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Do Warm Front have door to door reps?
Just had a man who said he worked for Warm Front, and that if I did not take up insulation advice he was giving I would be surchaged on my council tax. He had a leaflet for a particular firm. Sounded a con just to get business, and when I challenged him he went away. Anyone else had simular approaches from someone saying…
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StayWarm
I posted a message under a sticky of StayWarm, but I don't know whether I should have posted it under a "Sticky." Here is the link: http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?p=15015461#post15015461 Would someone please let me know if I should have posted it here or is it OK where it is?
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Gas & elec for disabled
Hi I am new to the site and wondered if anyone knew of companies that have a tariff for the disabled? If i`m in the wrong place let me know. cheers prox
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Cancellation charges
We moved into a rented property in June and stayed with Southern Electric who supply both gas and electric on their standard tariff. I was going to set up direct debits but they wanted too much so chose to wait for the first bills and was proved right. Last night I applied for their online tariff which gives a discount for…
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Check your Bills very carefully!!
Hi Just sharing an experience with ScottishPower. Told I was £500 in arrears on elec alone despite having monthly DD set by them. Eeek. Queried once but told rather patronisingly it was all correct and down to a 'wrong reading' I gave them (so MY fault). Went over my statement with fine-tooth comb. No easy matter as it's…
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Bad news from Scottish Power - advice please!
Yesterday I received a horrible phone call from Scottish Power, saying they have made a series of mistakes with regards to my electricity account - these have now come to light because I have been changed tariffs to the discounted rate. Anyway, I submitted my readings when I first moved in, but they wanted to check them…
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nPower key meter change - should i change supplier
Hi Moved into house 1st July (6 students), only 2 were living there till october so they decided to change to the key meter. We now want to change back to the standard meter which we all feel will be alot cheaper however we have been told there is a £50 charge to change the electric meter and a £70 charge to change the gas…
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Double bill after switch
After taking Martin's advice to switch to a capped tarriff in August we switched to the cheapest tariff at the time which was with EDF from NPower. We've now just gotten 2 bills, 1 from NPower and 1 from EDF. After ringing NPower they said that EDF hadn't told them we had switched (although on their database it said they…
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pre payment meter, so why a bill for £225
hi title says it all really, i have a pre payment meter and have done for years, we have in the last 2 weeks been sent 3 bills from our supplier 3 bills ranging from £198-£225, i have rang my supplier and been told its from they put up the prices, my meter has been on the old tarrif and was not updated, they addmitted it…
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Capped Deal or ride it out!!
Hi May i apologize in advance for any mistakes I make,but I am currently having both my Gas and Elec. supplied by Eon on their sign online 8 Tariff but recently switched to BG Fixed rate until 2011.I am still in my cooling of period and was wondering whether to stay put with Eon or not.Any advice or thoughts would be…
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Gas & Electricity
I had an e-mail from Pipeline (Ben Scammel) recommending to switch energy suppliers to The Utility Warehouse, and they would save me money on my bills. Has anyone heard of the Utility Warehouse & are they OK?
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Dual Fuel: Should I stay or should I go?
At the moment I get both gas and electricity from Atlantic Gas & Energy. The comparison sites suggest that I could save about £100 a year by changing to British Gas Click Energy 6. I've now applied online for this, but I understand I'll have a 2-week "cooling-off" period in which I can cancel. I had forgotten that Atlantic…
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Wholesale Gas 0p/Therm at Weekend.
:confused: Read in the 'Times yesterday that the wholesale price of gas from importers to wholesalers was 0p/therm on Sunday.With such a glut of gas,one wonders why Mr Brown doesn't step in and sort out this rip-off.
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Moving from British Gas Click 5 - Help pls
Hi I have been a very long time lurker but only just plucked up the courage to join in so pls be gentle with me...here goes! I did a switch over to BG Click 5 which has just finalised last week, a couple of days later I received an email informing me of their price rises. I have just spoken to BG to inform them that I am…
