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E.on
Hi All, My very first post, some help needed please, have been with e.on (power gen) for several years and deal with everything on line, today i noticed, when checking my bank statement that our E.on D.D has been increased by £30. we have had no prior notification of this either by letter or e.mail, is this legal? surely…
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huge Gas Bill
on 3rd september i moved from a 3 bed terrace with pre payment meters where i spend £60 a month to cover gas and elctric.. i moved into a 3 bed semi, with normal meters and my gas and elctric are now costing me £160 a month for gas and electric.. I just got a bil for gas 15th Oct to 26th Nov: £110... i have the heating on…
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Central Heating or Electric Heater
Hi, Would it be cheaper to use my small electric heater in my room or have the gas central heating on in the whole house? Thanks
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Central heating. Bursts or constant? My results
As fuel prices continue to surge I am trying desperately to cut our central heating bills. My original thread on this topic can be viewed here: http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1259041 A recap of our house: 100+ year old sandstone detached villa in Scotland with no modern insulation. Walls are solid…
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E-on Charges ?
Hi, Can anyone help answer a query. We were paying a DD to E-on for gas and electric of £112 a month. In march this year they suddenly reduced this to £58 a month. Last month we contacted E-on to query something at which point they decided that they had not been charging us for electric for the past 9 months, and as such…
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Electric Meter- Am I paying a standing charge to have low rate and normal rate?
My house is fiited with a leccy meter with readings for low rate and normal rate as there used to be immersion heaters installed. My dad was round at the weekend and said he had his old meter removed and replaced with one with just 1 reading as he was paying a standing charge to have it there even though it wasn't being…
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I've moved to N Power
As it says I' ve moved to n power and just had swalec on my door giving me their sales pitch just really worried now about going with n power was with british gas and swalec but there prices just kept rising not sure if I've done the right thing HELP!:confused:
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Am I paying too much for electricity? Help!!
Hello all! I've just joined this forum for advice about a problem I've got with electricity. Basically, me & my partner rent a small 1 bed flat, we both work lllooooonnnggg hours (so were not home much!), we turn everything off when were out (only thing left on is the fridge), the heating is gas. We are on an electricity…
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E-billing Hidden Notification of Debit Increases
Have just found out from my bank account that Eon have increased my direct debit yet again. A call to customer services revealed that because I use e-billing, the only notification I had received was hidden on the 'View the paper version' of my bill. There was no mention on the 'Your Account' or 'View your latest bill'…
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Confused about economy 7
We are currently on an Ecotricity Economy 7 tariff as we just took over the tariff from the previous tenants and never got round to changing it. Looking at a bill I can see we don't use it properly at all, and I don't think we will. Can we change to a normal tariff? or do yo uhave to have a new meter? TBH I don't even know…
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Huge British Gas Electricty Bill - How on Earth?
At the end of August, my electricty bill came and it seemed exceptionally high - we usually pay around £150 - £200 mark and it had somehow jumped to £304! I thought, one off, maybe we did use some stuff and didn't think much of it. Two days ago my new bill arrives and it's even higher - £329! I could not believe my eyes!…
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Ofgem Tell Energy Giants To Justify DD Payments.
"Ofgem issued a statement on Friday saying: 'We have today written to all the major suppliers asking for details of their direct debit arrangements and how they communicate with customers. It is already clear that suppliers need to improve their communications. 'We have also called in the head of the Energy Retail…
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Students struggling to meet gas and elec payments!!!
Help! what can we do? The housemate that was in charge of the bills hasn't been making any payments for gas and elec since may this year. we recently recieved a gas bill of £170 and elec bill of £110. we as students can't afford to pay this. so he rang them up and they want us to pay £150 a month (£38 per person). on top…
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Any opinions on British Gas "Priority Response™" breakdown cover policy
I've just noticed British Gas will provide Boiler Breakdown cover called "Priority Response" for £2 per month which entitles you to a fixed price repair costing £99 up till 31st March 2009. (£160 or £130 outside London after that date) I've got a 6 year old combi whch is beginning to play up so I think this must be very…
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Scottish Power Harassing Me For Unpaid Bill I Paid in August!
I have had an ongoing problem with scottish power since July when I ceased to be a customer, and paid my final bill on 7 August. Unfortunately they can't find the payment, and despite months of sending them all the details (bank telephone code references as it was paid through telephone banking), copy of my bank statement…
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Cost of running dehumidifier
Off to buy one tommorow and imagine they will all cost different amounts to run however to give me an idea if you have one how much does it cost to run - and how long do you run it for?
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huge eon bill
yesterday we had the (dis)pleasure of recieving our quarterly electric bill for the amout of.........£1,287.32!. to put this in perspective we live in a small one bedroom flat. eon say we have used 10, 000 daytime units in 3 months. i called to complain, eon asked me for a meter reading, which i couldnt give as the meter…
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Will I get a refund?
Hello everyone just wondering I have emailed Eon for a refund of £245 as that is the amount I'm in credit. I pay £95 per month for both gas & elec.I'm pretty sure that all over the year I will be in credit with this amount of dd.I'm hoping they do credit as it will help pay for passports.Mamy thanks for any replies on this…
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Petition Downing Street Gas & Electric
Petition the Prime Minister to Force utilities Companies (Gas & Electric) to reduce their current prices http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/ElecGasBills/ In todays news The boss of a UK energy firm has said suppliers will not pass on all of the savings they make on cheaper wholesale gas and electricity to consumers. In the…
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nPower's new tariff in fairer transparent pricing shock
As alerted to us by Marky1125 in DirectDebacle's thread nPower have released a newly structured Sign Online tariff with a single unit pricing and a monthly standing charge of £4.58. Can we all ignore our historical antipathy to this company and just discuss this pricing structure? Is this fairer and the way tariffs should…
