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average cost and best supplier?
Hi everyone, Me and my husband looking to buy a 2 bed semi house( sale just going through)This is out first house and neither of us lived on our own before, therefore we are very new to all bills etc. So im just wondering if someone could give me an average guide price for a month for a dual fuel and recommend a best…
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Problem - switch via Moneysupermarket to N Power one tariff
Hi, I transferred gas/electricity suppliers with moneysupermarket back in July to Npower (gas) and Scottish Power (lekkie). All is well until last Saturday. I received two letters from NPower which have said that although they have me on the One tariff since last July, I don't have both gas/lekkie with them so therefore…
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npower prepayment end of contract problem
I was with npower on a prepayment electricity meter until 2008-09-01 and then switched to Ebico (thoroughly recommended). npower sent me a demand on 2008-10-28 for £365.91 which they reduced to £70. This money was because "your token meter was undercharging you because our prices have changed since it was last reset". Now…
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Does this sound like a good rate?
Scottish Power are charging me 11.5 kWhp, standing charge 0.3125
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Freestanding storage heaters
Hi again all, The storage heaters in our flat are a bit old and knackered, and our letting agent has contacted our landlord who said he would replace them with freestanding, plugin heaters. Does he still mean they'd be storage heaters, as I can't confirm or deny whether such things actually exist? I'm a bit worried he's…
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npower statement confusion
On Monday I received my gas statement from npower. The pricing since the price change in August was as follows: 28.8.08 estimate 14907 4.11.08 estimate 15113 = 206 Cubic metres / 2303 KWH First 439 @ 8.209 = £36.04 Next 1864 @ 2.488 = £46.38 Total £82.42 I received this on the 24th so took a reading and phoned it though.…
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Warm Front Grant 2nd Application, can I get a Gas Boiler?
When we moved into our house a few years ago, it did not have any central heating (and still doesnt!), or storage heaters etc.. in fact, nothing, apart from a clapped out warm air heating system int he living room. Much to my suprise, when warmfront came round, they decided to replace this with a more modern, warm air…
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Are we paying higher rate - prepay meter
Hi I normally need to get more gas every 6 days (£10.00 each time) However, I topped up £10 on Sunday pm which took us to a total of £11ish.. Now we have just £1.40 left on the meter... The heating and water comes on at 6am and goes off at 8am then back on at 5pm until 9:30pm. Why all of a sudden am i needing to top up…
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VAT on Energy
If this Labour government genuinely wanted to help everybody in the current financial crisis, why didn't they leave VAT as it was at 17.5% and scrap the 5% on gas and electric?
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British Gas Cut Prepayment Charges And May Reduce All Bills Next Spring.
"British Gas will reduce the premium that customers on prepayment meters are charged for their power and gas compared to other payment methods from Dec. 18 and may cut all bills next spring, the subsidiary of Centrica said on Tuesday. Householders who pay for their electricity and gas using prepayment meters are charged…
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British Gas - Mis-sold long term deal?
A few month sago when utility companies were increasing prices for fun I decided to switch to British Gas because they were offering a long term price fix to 2011. Now that prices are coming down are they planning to trim those prices? The only reason I switched at that time is that it was implied during the sales patter…
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How much have you saved...?
OK - Gas & Electric have now become my new "thing" to save money, previously I admit :o that I hadn't even considered moneysaving in this area (second nature to switch the tumble drier on, and the dishwasher, and leave all the lights on etc etc etc :rolleyes: ) let alone the "green" costs of these (if I could do an even…
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Eon V14 price query?
Hi Changed my Eon pricing plan on May 29th 08 to a Fixed Rated plan 01/10/09 and recieved a bill up to and including this date My tariff shows today as- Electricity Normal units up to 900 kWhs 18.039 pence Normal units 10.8255 pence per kWh Gas Normal units up to 2680 kWhs 4.66095 pence Normal units 2.97045 pence per kWh…
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Eon V14 price query?
Hi Changed my Eon pricing plan on May 29th 08 to a Fixed Rated plan 01/10/08 and recieved a bill up to and including this date My tariff shows today as- Electricity Normal units up to 900 kWhs 18.039 pence Normal units 10.8255 pence per kWh Gas Normal units up to 2680 kWhs 4.66095 pence Normal units 2.97045 pence per kWh…
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"Three Quarters Of A Million Of Us Won't Turn On Our Heating At All This Winter"
Perhaps the posters who automatically assume that peoples energy uses will increase this winter will take note. ;) http://financialadvice.co.uk/news/3/householdbills/8678/Households-reveal-radical-plans-to-save-on-energy-bills.html
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Gas Calorific Value
Give the recent press over DD's I have been checking what my current supplier does for me. I started looking at the Gas content of my Dual Fuel supply. On comparing bills for different periods I noticed that the Calorific Value used to calculate kWh has increased from 38.8 to 39.1. Given that the unit rate is applied to…
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Social Tariff income eligability
Hi,I have a querie on behalf of a work colleague. Currently she gets her gas /elec from N power. She is a single parent with one child works part time and gets Tax credits. Looking at N powers Social tariff ,she could apply for a rebate based on her income which without childcare element of Tax credits, is well under the…
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online usage graph
friend of mine can log on to his energy accounts (i think hes with n power)& can see on a graph what hes used each month compared to last year...do southern elec have this application
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Eon wants 2 charge 50.00 to change each meter to bills!!!...
Can anybody help please>....? Been with Eon now for about 3 months now for gas and electric. both on pre-payment meters :cool: , (was on pre-payment wiv southern elltric beforehand, but changed to Eon, as S/E was getting to dear to keep topping up g and e meters........... I just called them up to ask, if i can stop being…
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anyone heard of ebico
hello has anyone heard of ebico they claim to be a non profit orginisation is there such a thing?? and would you recomend joining them
