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New to the Energy board? Start here
Hi all! If you’re new to this board, welcome! This board is a great place to ask questions about your energy tariff. To help other Forumites give you useful answers, please remember to include details of your annual energy consumption, and the unit rates/standing charge for any tariff or fix you're asking about. How much…
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Octopus gas tariff
My fix ends in 2 days and looks like flexible is cheapest currently. But I'm guessing it'll go up in July? Fix is 1p more per kWh. Is that the sensible choice? Having an exit fee makes it a harder decision
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Optiwatt plug in energy saver
Hi, has anybody got any knowledge or experience of this item, (Optiwatt plug in energy saver) claiming to reduce electric bills? Thoughts please, tia
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Plug in solar
https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/07/23/solar-balconies-are-booming-in-germany-heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-the-popular-home- There was an item on radio four about a booming trend of pug in solar, in Germany. I got the impression that you just plug it into your 13amp socket and it gets used by your appliances. Have…
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Ovo energy
I pay my energy bill by DD monthly and never check my account until January this year.It showed over £1000 in credit.I questioned it and was told they didn't have a meter reading for my electric despite having a smart meter.I gave it 10 days after the engineer had been out questioned the credit again.I cancelled Januarys…
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Switching to flat rate when smart meter was previously economy 7
Hi all, I hope you can help. I moved into a 2 bed electric only flat in December that had storage heaters & economy 7. After the shock of my first month's bill being £300 😱 I replaced the storage heaters with infrared panels so no longer needed the econ 7 tariff. I was on Octopus Flexible (with different day/night rates)…
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smart meters
Is there any way to trace my smart meter history. I had a smart meter installed before the pandemic. After a few years I was getting constant emails asking me for a meter reading. That shouldn't have been necessary. In October, last year an engineer spent all day replacing everything and I was given another, exactly the…
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How to check if you're on the Energy Price Cap
About two-thirds of homes are on a price-capped energy tariff. To quickly check if you're on one, we've created a new Price Cap checker tool. We'd love to know what you think of it! How to check if you're on the Energy Price Cap Thanks MSE Clare
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EDF FreePhase Dynamic Tariff
Anyone on this tariff? It has 3 rates green 11:00 pm - 6:00am red. 4:00pm - 7:00pm amber the rest of the day Rates alter daily with wholesale prices. Today green is 13.35pkw red is. 27.51pkw amber. 16.17pkwh
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Fuse App problems?
If you check the long Fuse thread I started about 18months ago (which still grows), one of my reasons for signing up with them is the app that updates in real time (mostly) and allows me to check the KwH consumption when I make tweaks to my heat pump algorithm or whatever. Every so often it lags for a wee while if the DCC…
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"Switch and get cashback*" questions
Cheap Energy Club shows this for every entry in the results page (or just Switch*) but nowhere does it say what the asterisk means. I'm also concerned that, as an Eon customer, I won't qualify for the Eon Next tariff switch cashback. I can't see any information about whether existing customers also get the cashback and I'd…
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Fix ends in November, should we consider changing now?
I’m on a good rate fix which ends in November. Given there might be no good rates available then, should we consider switching now and tying in a fix till next May and suck up exit costs, or wait it out and hope there will be some decent deals in October? Thanks
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British Gas Final Bill
We have recently moved house to a property that was supplied by British Gas (BG). Immediately upon moving in we took photos of the meter readings, submitted them to BG and then started the switch to Outfox Energy (OFE) It appeared that everything was going to plan with the switch to OFE taking place 7 days after we moved…
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Octopus App not tracking IOG cheap rates
hi. Anyone else seeing the same issue? Since April 29th all usage appears at peak rate, though I can see (via Insights) and Octopus confirmed, that cheap rates are being applied. Therefore it looks like the app has an issue though Octopus don’t seem able to help. I’ve been using the app for over a year on IOG and it may…
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Home Energy sticking to opening "industry read" (double charged units?)
A couple of months ago, I switched to Home Energy for electricity. Despite having a smart meter and the previous supplier using the correct reading for the closing read (ending '115'), Home Energy insist on using an "industry" opening read (ending '095') meaning there's a double charge of around 20 units (they are charging…
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Octopus Tracker
I just wondered about people's experiences with this tariff and whether they feel they are winners or losers. I got a quote from them yesterday, and I have to say I find the numbers highly misleading. The figures are very attractive, beating even the good fixed rate tariff I got from Avro, but presumably based on an…
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EDF meter readings history gone AWOL
Just wondering if it is a site glitch or just my account. Logged on this morning to enter my latest meter readings, which were accepted, but whilst the last 18 months of gas readings are listed the electric list is blank. Just says there are no historical readings. I am not concerned as I have all my spreadsheet data &…
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Installing a electric charging port at home
I’ve recently got an electric car and now looking into getting a charging point installed at home. I remember a few years ago there were quite generous grants available (or even free installations in some cases), but not sure what the situation is now. Does anyone know if there are still any schemes available to reduce the…
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Can I change to daily smart meter readings?
I recently switched from OVO to a fixed unit price deal with Fuse Energy (thanks to MSE Cheap Energy Club). My choice with OVO was monthly readings and Fuse are taking half hourly readings. I contacted them to ask to change to just daily readings and they have replied to say the can't do it. As the unit rate doesn't vary…
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Octopus intelligent go questions
I might well be missing something obvious here but can anyone confirm my reservations on switching to this tariff please. I am about to purchase an EV and am looking at sorting out how to organise home charging. Our annual mileage will be quite low (about 5000 per annum) so would not need to worry about charging every…
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Shall I tske this offered new tariff?
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