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Start of Surge Pricing with Smart Meter Overhaul
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/02/08/smart-meter-overhaul-open-gates-surge-pricing/ According to Matt Oliver, Daily Telegraph. I suspect that this is what many of us who have so far resisted smart meters expected to come about at some stage. It will be interesting to see if smart meters become mandatory.
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I *think* Octopus has offered me a decent fixed rate
My Octopus Go (cheap 4 hours overnight, used mainly for car charging) comes to an end March 22nd. They've emailed me the below offer. Based on Martin's video saying a fix would need to be 44% more than today's cap, or 59% more if we assume the cap will increase again, then I think this is a pretty good switch. I'd…
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THTC price
My mother in law is on THTC using storage heaters. She lives alone and her bill for the last quarter was £1230. Can this be right? I can't concive how it possibly could. I was wondering if the heating is somehow programmed incorrectly with the heaters being charged during the day. Is this possible? Thanks Angus
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Wholesale v energy costs
According to the energy forecast chart/price cap. Why are customers being charged so much more than wholesale cost.
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British Gas (BG) possible VAT evasion on Warm Homes Discount (WHD)
BG show WHD £140.00 against the Electricity or Gas portion of your billing unlike other companies like EonNext & Octopus Energy who show it as an incoming receipt at the end of the bill. What happens is that BG show the before VAT figure as £133.34 CR then go on to calculate the VAT @ 5% on the value of Gas or Electricity…
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200quid debt
Martin wrote:: """Two singles live alone in Oct, then meet. They each get a £200/yr discount, then they move in together, so they've only one bill, and it'll just have one £40/yr added. "" So extrapolating, since myself and partner live here and only I am on the bill, if suddenly she becomes the bill payer at the right…
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Octopus say they need meter readings
I received this email today. They say I need to find meter readings. I can't log into any old accounts before Avro. I had a smart meter so can't they track the readings as they go. I can't remember what or if I gave readings and to whom cos it was all confusing at the time and half of my fuel was with green and other with…
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Economy 7
My fixed deal ends on 30/4/22. All I can see is the standard
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SO Energy Pricing Query :
We are on a two year fixed term tariff with SO Energy for our Electricity & Gas & our monthly bill is exceeding over £300 from media reports this appears incredibly high please advise the next steps & what are our options as the advice is to stay with our current provider Thank You.
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"Green Energy"
Going back maybe 10-12yrs i worked for a fabrication company. A lot of industries were moving on to greener energy. These would be hospital trusts, breweries, water treatment works. Also firms such as Unilever, Coca Cola, Eon and many more. I couldn't tell you the ins and outs as i was involved in making chimnies,…
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Fixed deal
Hi, My energy company Avro went under a few months ago (with which I was on a fixed deal, which would total £900 for the year based on our last 2-3 yrs meter readings) and I have been placed with Octopus on a variable deal, on the same meter readings this is going to go up to £1275. I've just got a quote from a TOP 6 of…
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Working out my new energy tariff from the Ofcom data?
Hi all, So from April I'll be on the price cap tariff, and I'm trying to work out what it will be but I'm not sure what all the numbers mean in the Ofcom data. I think I have worked out some of it, but can anyone help? So looking at the docs…
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Double Bill Increase Estimate
I am a BG & EON customer on quarterly bills and Standard Tariffs. The recent news stated that the removal of the cap would increase my energy bills by approx. 54%. I have just had confirmation from BG (online quote & telephone call) that my gas alone will nearly double. Current & New tariff: 4.272 per kwh & 30.783 per day…
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Martin Lewis answers your energy questions - Wednesday 6.30pm LIVE
Hi MoneySavers We've seen just how busy the Energy board has been this past week since the news about the price cap and the Government's proposals to help smooth the price increase - and we know that many of you have lots of unanswered questions. Martin Lewis will be hosting a live question and answer session on Wednesday…
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ECO grants
I have now asked my own energy suppler about this ECO grant OVO and they where unhelpful except to say they don do any more so I persevered , I contacted Boiler Grants who referred me to Eon but that fell though. The only thing I was told was try and find an installer that does ECO installers I haven't found one here yet I…
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E on next
Could someone who has been migrated to EON next please tell me if their previous meter readings (On EON previous)are still available?
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Getting panicky about looming price hikes
Hi like everyone else I'm really starting to fear to looming price hikes, I currently pay around £60-85 a month (electric 20.94p kwh SC 22.38p gas 3.85p kwh SC 24.84p) at its highest on a standard variable rate and I've been lucky enough to keep myself in credit and usually use the accumulated credit for Christmas which is…
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Check your bill! SSE overcharging if tariff change is mid billing period (mine was +66%!)
If you are changing tariff on gas or electric with SSE, e.g. rolling from fixed to standard variable, then make sure you check your bill very carefully. They took an accurate smart meter reading for start and end of the billing period, but chose to use an ESTIMATED reading for the day of the tariff change, and chose a…
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Stick or Twist?
Looking for advice as to whether I should stick to current plan which is rolling, or sign-up to a new tariff? Not sure what the unit rate or standing charge will go up to when the new price cap comes into effect. Any thoughts? Pictures attached.
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Avro energy demanding I owe them money
Hi all, has anyone had emails from Avro energy demanding that you owe them money, I moved from Avro energy in march 2021, switched to utility Point, just this month I have had 2 emails which had no name on, demanding I owe them over £100, so I forwarded them to my email phishing, as I thought it was a scam, I always pay by…
