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British Gas Woes
Rather than re-type everything, I'll just cut and paste my letters of complaint and you guys can form your own opinions. 24 October 2008 From the date of our moving into our property on 17 March 2005, we had problems with British Gas billing us for our electricity supply. To cut a long story short, British Gas identified…
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Energy Companies Allegedly Misuseing Direct Debit Scheme
" A senior MP has said he believes energy companies are boosting their cash flow by increasing customers' direct debit payments even when they are in credit. Conservative Peter Luff, chairman of the business and enterprise select committee, is calling on the energy regulator Ofgem to launch an inquiry. Energy suppliers…
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key metres how are price increases updated
hi ive got a question about my electric key metre when tarrifs for your choosen provider increase lets face it they never seem decrease how is the metre adjusted to the new tarrif. I ask because in late october I rang ebico as every so often i have ring give them a reading and they send me my standing charge back via…
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Falling oil price - change or wait ?
I have been checking out different options for my Gas and Elect supplies using various online comparisons. I can make a saving, but wondered if now was the right time to change with the oil price falling and the utility companies starting to come under pressure to cut tarrifs soomer rather than later. Andrew
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Dont know why Gas & Electric is costing me so much..want to switch..need really help!
Hi I'm really in a pickle at the moment and I can't get my head around the cost of my Gas and Electric. My current gas supplier is British Gas and I have dual fuel with them and pay them by monthly direct debit. Over the years the direct debits have fluctuated to reflect changes in seasons and currently (up to a month ago)…
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How to I work out my current electric bill?
When we moved in to our rented property the previous tenant was with PowerGen, we have changed over to British Gas (Click Energy 6) and I was wondering if we could work out what are bill would be for the month with BG? When we read the metre it was 73812 and now it's 74160. By my workings out we have used 348kw (?) which…
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LED bulbs instead of halogen spotlights
Has anyone had any luck replacing halogen spotlights with LED's? I looked into it about a year ago but found the bulbs really expensive and also found out that I'd have to change all my transformers. I wonder if there has been any progress in the prices/compatibility over the last 12 months. I'd really like to make the…
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Help, I need an expert!
I live alone in a 3-bedroom house, the heating is off during the day and I shower, rather than use the bath. I cook rarely, and two of the upstairs radiators don't even work, but my monthly (British Gas) bill is currently £95 and going up to £125 per month. My neighbours, (families of four) have their heating on all day,…
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gas/electric switching
Hi, am finding the gas/electric comparisons almost impossible. I have been with 3 suppliers over the last year. Gas use 3294 kwh and Electric 3062 kwh. Variable direct debit The thing I find most confusing when trying to compare the UNIT price, is that I thought the calculation would be carried out over one year, ie…
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Scottish Power - fixed my monthly rate then upped it by £100!!! Advice please?
Earlier in the year, my electricity bills were undercharged for 3 months and so the at the next automatic reassessment, they were increased, from around £50, to £160. I rang and complained and said I couldn't afford the increase at all (I live in a small two bed flat so I think it's extremely high anyway!). I got a very…
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Recourse after missinformation from Scottish Gas?
Hi Everyone, Hoping someone can help me out here. I bought my flat 18 months ago and spent about 6 months trying to find out who my electricity supplier was (turned out to be Scottish Gas) and get them to set up an account. The problem seemed to stem from the fact that the previous owners of the flat used to have storage…
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Elec Usage - Alarm Clock
This is really sad but.... does anyone know what the annual electricity usage cost would be for having a bedside alarm clock switched on all the time. I am doing a big energy cutting exercise and I wondered if the annual cost is significant such that a battery clock would be cheaper. Many thanks.
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Cheap Electric for Business Premises?
Hi all, Have just been quoted from British Gas: 83p/day standing charge, 12p/unit daytime and 8p/unit nighttime, for a 1 year contract. Business tariffs don't tend to be so competitive as consumer ones, and price comparison sites don't cater for business customers (last time I tried to switch around 3 years ago that was…
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Ebico Prepayment customers: check your meter!
As I think there are quite a few Equigas/Equipower customers (Ebico) on this board, I thought I'd just post a heads up on this matter from the Ebico Website. It looks like, inadvertently, you have a chance to become a quarterly billed customer by taking no action and not using your gas card. But if you just top us as…
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British Gas Fixed Price 2012
I have had the benefit of British Gas Fix and Fall for a few years which comes to an end on 31 December this year. I was sent a letter asking if I would be interested in Fixed Price 2012 Tariff which guarantees no price rises on Gas and Electric until January 2012. This is set at British Gas standard rates as at 30 July…
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Do you think this might mean that BG Click Energy 6 tariff may increase in price???
Hi. I need your thoughts about this. I was originally on Click energy 5 dual fuel since end of August 08 (switched from southern electric). On 3/10/08 after the price increase I switched to click energy 6 and received a gas bill a few days later. Today I got a new bill so was a bit surprised as I thought bills were issued…
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Confusing Scottish Hydro Letter / Bill
I became a customer of Scottish Hydro in about March. I received my first gas bill from them on the 23rd of July stating my Gas would be £121.60. So I paid this however, I am now due for my new bill but have been sent a bill saying my bill from 19 March to 21 July has been recalculated so I know have to pay an extra…
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Scottish Power bill issue....
Hi, I switched to Scottish Power a few months ago. The site I used to switch from said my bill for both gas and electricity would be £50 per month. I then submitted my meter readings after the first quarter of paying £50 per month and my bill went up to £84.50 a month which I was quite unhappy about. Recently I submitted…
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E on offer
Has anyone else had an E on rep call to 'win back' and been told that your price is not fixed and you will pay 10% less than their rate until 2010.No tie in. I'm currently on dual fuel,monthly direct debit with Southern Electric. He called yesterday and said that the new date was only introduced yesterday,as it had been…
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Left with no gas Prepayment card for over 34 days!
Hello, Just after some advice about what rights to compensation I have... On the 18th october (saturday)I went to put £10 credit on our prepayment gas meter. The meter came up with an error and said the card was faulty. I called british gas who told me they would get a united utilities employee out within 4 hours, which…
