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Massive bills,want to switch but trapped by debt on account
HI, I recieved my annual review letters/bills from edf last week and my bills are HUGE! I owe nearly £500 between the gas and electric and they want to up my fixed direct debit amount from £27 for electric and £44 for gas to £95 for each of them meaning a £110 hike in my overall monthly bills which I simply can't afford Im…
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EDF price rises
Have you checked the new EDF tarifs. They have now just a day and a night rate and a daily charge. They have sold this on the system being more easily understood. I did a like for like comparison and they are effectively increasing their charges by 17.53%. I wrote to them and they admitted this. I suggest if you are with…
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EDF changing from prepayment to monthly bills.
We bought our first home 3 months ago and the gas and electric are on prepayment meters, so we looked into having them removed and the supplier at the time wanted to charge us £50 per meter to remove them. So we changed to EDF as they offered the best rate at the time and no charge to remove the meters after we had been…
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Portable Solar Panels - why are they so expensive?
Hi, I've been reading about solar panels and different approaches - buy ready made, make your own etc and there's one question I'm not able to answer or find an answer to - why are the ready made ones so expensive (smallest from £800)? For example: you can get 36 solar panel pv cells for around £40 on Ebay. That's about as…
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Changed Prepayment Keys Now Emergency Credit
Ok, So I am having a huge problem with my electric suppliers. I am on a Electricity Prepayment meter (ACE9000 KBD) I was orignally with e-on, decided to uswitch as I found nPower were cheaper, Later turns out that for some unknown reason nPower denied the switch because it was done online and something conflicted (Two…
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SP - bill for previous tenant
I came to Scotland in September. I rented the apartment, and the meter readings has been entered in the contract. The first bill came in December, however, in the name of the previous tenant lived in the same building. Was paid by me ( I have confirmation of payment.) The next bill I received in March, but it was exposed…
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Prepayment meter
I have a gas and electricity prepayment meter. The electricy one lets me use emergency credit and when I top up I get the amount minus what I used in the emergency credit - pretty straightforward. The gas meter however is different - when I go into emergency credit and I top up my card the machine takes of some of the…
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I spent 22 days without any gas supply
Everyone, I rent a house of Defense Estates, working in the Royal Air Force. After smelling gas on 1st March this year, My gas supply was capped immediately. Because of Modern Housing Solutions very poor management of the situation, I then spent a further 22 days without any gas until a new boiler was fitted. 28 days after…
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How do we deal with this?
We moved into our new home on the 14/02/2011 We previously received a letter from LCS on behalf of E.0n advising us that there is an outstanding balance of £85.57, in addition to this they have added an administration charge of £19.68 - these charges were for energy used between the 24/11/2010 - 04/02/2010. As we didn't…
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Not eligiable for Warmfront grant
Just found out today that I'm not eligiable for a warm front grant under the new rules. Need to install central heating this summer as I've only got 2 very old storage heaters and a gas fire; storage heaters have cost a small fortune this winter. Does anybody know of any reputable companies (probably utility co.) that do…
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Capped rate for utilities? What do you think atm?
Can't decide. It seems to add around £40 a month to our bill, but need to double check this. Our best non-capped alternative is £40 cheaper but has a £20 per utility switching fee. But that's only a month's switching cost. Big thing I can't work out is whether gas and electricity have risen already, or whether instability…
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The Royals!
Who supplies the Queen with her gas and electricity and if she could choose ... do you think she would take the £30 cashback or the free wine? :beer:
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Cost of 4 hours heating
good evening there all. i have a query on how much gas i've used. i put my boiler on at 6.05pm this evening to heat both water and central heating (need to dry clothes and its raining) the meter reading was 2601 (0) being red and 0 being a printed 0 doesnt change so 2601 0 0 ft3 at 10.05 i checked the meter and it states…
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shared houses - companies who deal with the bills
Hello I am a student and will be leaving halls this year and moving in to a shared house. All tenants are responsible to pay the utility bills. I understand that there are companies out there who will deal with all the utility bills and each tenant will pay the company an equal amount and the company will then pay the gas,…
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n Power customer Help needed urgently please!
Hi, I am an n power customer and have been since may 2009. We use them for both gas and electricity. We had 2 direct debits to cover both utilities until we moved home in Jan 2010. We then had only 1 dd . I called npower in march 2010 to query this and was told that as our account was in credit there was no reason to be…
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My first time!
Hello all, After my bf recently left me and moved out he has landed me with all the bills...and a mega one just came so I think I need to change! I have been reading all the posts on the main board and think I want to change from Utility Warehouse to Scottish Power duel fuel 13. So just a few things...as I have never…
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no standing charge tariff and overpayments
Hello I have just received bills for my gas and electricity that have been estimated at a level way over the used amount. How they do this, I don't know, they even have a statement at the bottom that says that the usage this time last year was way less than what they estimated this year. Anyway. As I am on a NSC tariff, my…
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ebico dual fuel
Dear All, I recently used one or two comparison sites to check whether Ebico was still the most competitive for my low usage (gas (av. 1990 KWh/annum) and electricity (793 KWh/annum)). I noticed that some referred to an EbicoDual tarriff which I had never heard of. I emailed Ebico to find out whether that tarriff existed…
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Double Glazing or Central Heating?
I've just bought a one bedroom flat in Kennington, London. It's got 3 huge (2m square) beautiful windows which give character but let a lot of noise in. It's also got old electric storage heaters. I've been given a quote of £3k for double glazing (Zenith Safestyle) And another of £3k for central heating (connecting,…
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I've found Genuine CHEAP ENERGY-both Gas and Electricity
Over the last 6 months I had been trying to save myself some money on my energy bills.For the last 20 years I had bought my gas from British Gas and electricity from EDF Energy but after reading about the "dual fuel" discounts available decided to buy both from a single supplier.After doing a bit of checking I wrongly…
