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Swopping Prepayment Gas Company
Can someone clear this up for me... If you change company and have a prepayment meter and they tell you to put you new card in staight away. If you still have money on the other provides card. What is the best thing to do ? It seems to me if you put the new suppliers card in and top it up wont you loose the money you had…
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EDF switchover complete - gas not live
Hi guys, I need your opinions on the following matter please: I switched to EDF on a dual fuel product back in June this year. To cut a long story short after a number of blunders on EDF's part the switchover is complete; they've received all the details from my previous dual fuel provided. But... And here's the stupid…
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Past Due Credit - This smells like a scam!!
I'm not often lost for words but I was tonight when I came home to find 2 letters from a company called Pastdue credit demanding a total of £660 in so called debt from a property I left 2 years ago and only lived in for 3 months. The funny thng is that I had no gas, and a pre-paid electric meter while I was there. The…
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Whats Your Monthly Fuel Bill?
I'm curious! Ive taken over the utilities in the house we live in. Been told to expect to pay around £90 per month over the winter, based on last years usage. HOWEVER, the boiler was faulty and using gas but not heating the water, or powering the CH, so we have no real idea what we'll be paying. But i'm curious as to what…
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Trying to compare but can't find my tariff on the menu
Hi thought I'd check USwitch to see if I can save money on gas & electric. I'm with NPower and my bill says I'm on the ENERGY BONUS ADVANCE E7 & ENERGY BONUS ADVANCE GAS. But this doesn't appear on the drop down menu on ANY comparison sites :( how can I compare correctly??
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e.on
I'm interested in switching to e.onenergy.com/ageuk has anyone done this and has it been worthwhile ???
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Surprising consumer of electricity
I have just discovered a surprising consumer of 5 kWh of electricity per day in my house. The surprising consumer? My wife. She has been away for the past 3 days and in that time electricity consumption has dropped from 12 kWh per day to 7 kWh per day. Pity she is coming back tomorrow.:rotfl:
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day & night readings wrong way round
hi there, I moved from powergen to Npower 4 1/2 years ago i pay monthly direct debit, get billed every 6 months and every year i end up claiming back credit. back in may i rang up Npower & within 5 mins the lady realised my day and night electric meter readings appeared to be the wrong way round, resulting in us paying too…
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Boiler-hot water- E7 help please!
Hi all, I know this has probably been asked before but ... we recently moved into a 2 bedroom flat. all electricity no gas. Economy 7 . NO TIMER :mad: we both leave the house 7.35am and return approx 5pm. when we come home we both want showers ,,,so we have to put the immersion on for hour or so ..otherwise cold showers!…
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British Gas Prepayment meter problems!!!!!!!
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A stupid question, but here goes.......
the other day I was in a shop that was selling plug in things that told you how much electricity you were using. My question is, does it tell you how much the whole house is using in the way of electricity or just one appliance? Thanks:)
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Changing electricity meters
Hi, Looking for some advice. Currently we have a pre-payment meter with Eon. We're not sure yet if we want to change meters.What we are looking for though is to reduce our bills. Do they(Eon) charge to change to a credit meter? If we change meters do we have to stay with them? I notice that SP are cheapest for pre-payment…
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price fixing
I think we all have realised and so has the government that the top energy suppliers have fixed prices so they all take a nice helping of profit without cutting each others throats with a price war,they are happy ,but the consumers are being fleeced,how can britain get back on its feet if the blood we need to move is so…
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gas formula to work out your gas bill
I wonder how many of us look at the formula that british gas use to work out the units you have used to turn it into kw. One component of this formula is something called the calorific value. I noticed that this calorific value was different when I compared 2 bills and was told by BG this does change but could not tell me…
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First Utility
I have put my details into a number of price comparison sites and they all tell me that it provides the best saving of about £580 compared to the nearest rival Scottish power at £508. I am just a little wary of switching to First Utility because they are new, they seem to have a lower user ratings and most uncomfortable of…
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Rent Energy Monitor for free S Yorks
I was too poor to buy one and missed the free offers for these. Greener solution is to rent one from my local library in Sheffield, for 3 weeks, and see which appliances use the most energy. Here's the link if anyone's interested - maybe worth finding out if other councils do a similar scheme?…
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Help please British gas have messed up
I have just bought a repossesion property and as there were key and card meters I registered with them to be sent to my home address. The electric key came and it had the woman whose house was repossesed name on it along with mine. I have now been connected with this woman by British gas through their mistake. Yesterday I…
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Date to apply for new supplier/ Scottish Power question
Hi Peeps, My energy contract with Scottish Power runs out on the 31st of this month and i will be changing to Ovo. I understand that the switching process takes a few weeks and my question is this - do i have to wait until the 31st to initiate the switch so that i don`t incurr the charges associated with leaving SP before…
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Electricity Meter Mix-Up
Hi, Trying to cut a v.long story short!! Recently moved into a rented semi-detached house in September [as I'm currently a student :D - renting til June] and tried to set up an account to start paying British Gas for gas+electricity. They told me that the serial number on my meter was registered as being for the house next…
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Help electric meter not worked since Dec! only just realized
Have spent the last year being really careful with our gas & electric usage and payments have dropped (gas & electric) with each bill, had a bill this week and they wanted to drop payments to £23 a month, thought that couldn't be right my money saving measures could not have been that good! Looked at my meter reading and…
