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Electricity Capped Prices
I am currently with Powergen for my electricity and have been offered the possiblity of capping their prices until 2010. This offer is capped not fixed, there are no lock-ins or cancellation fees, but there are restrictions and a premium applies - apparently only available to Standard and Economy 7 customers. I know I am…
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New Supplier from Next Week
hi, from next wednesday i shall no longer be a british gas customer, and obviously they will send a final bill. My friend has told me that by law they have to offer me a payment scheme to pay off any outstanding amount. Does anyone know if this is correct? Also i recently had my quarterly bill, is this what the outstanding…
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Scottish Power Increasing My DD...
I've been with SP for dual fuel for 6 months now, so basically over the winter months. My initial direct debit was for £30, which I thought would be about about right. I received a letter this morning saying that my account has been reviewed, and the DD is being increased to £51 for 'a 6 month period'. I currently owe £60,…
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British Gas & 0845 numbers
Had my quarterly bill yesterday with the 'regular' "Important notice Payment reassessment" at the bottom saying, not asking, that they will be increasing my monthly Direct Debit payment by 66%. In the past British Gas have tried this and I've always called them on 0800 numbers to tell them that I don't accept this increase…
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Driving down my monthly costs.
Hi, Firstly please let me appoligise incase this post is in the wrong place. :confused: After approximatley 2 years i have decided it is time to start reducing my monthly outgoings (starting with utilities). My total out goings on utilities and direct debits (including mortgage and council tax) have risen from £1300 to…
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Calculating my gas bill (approx)
Where do i start, Can someone please point me in the direction of trying to estimate my gas bill. I've searched the forum (got even more confused), searched the web without success, and am now at my last resort (MSE). In laymans terms: :confused: My last 1/4. Previous reading, 6717. new reading 7283. Units used = 566.…
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Atlantic massive Gas increase
I cannot believe it, Atlantic inform me as from the 15th May they will be putting my monthly direct debit Gas from £35 a month to a massive £54. This is ridiculous as they say they have etimated I use this amount. I am definatley thinking of switching but can anyone tell me who is the best as surely there are much cheaper…
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Gas and Elec Standing Charge
I have recently changed my scottish power to an online service. There were two options 1 Online Energy and 2 Online Energy (no standing charge) I went for option 2. Can anyone tell me if this was the right decision or should I try and get it changed to option 1. Any advice appreciated
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Immersion Heater Switches
My friend has just moved into a flat that has an electric immersion heater, it just has an on/off switch as per the photo HERE. What she would like to be able to do is have a timer, so the immersion heater can be set to come on a few hours in the morning and a few hours in the evening, what would she need or need to do for…
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Economy7, GFCH, Underfloor, which is best?
Hi, We have just put an offer in on a house that has Economy 7 storage heaters. I haven't had any experience of these in the past so I have a few questions: 1) Cost wise, how does this system compare to standard Gas Fired Central Heating? 2) How does it compare to underfloor type heating? 3)How much would it cost us to…
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Can you become a Gas and Elec Tart?
Just wondering what problems might arise by constantly switching gas and electricity and getting the cashback from the likes of quidco and topcashback everytime? It ould pay large amounts of your bills every few months. Carl
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debt on my prepayment meter
wondering if anyone else had this problem. Just phoned British Gas to ask to be changed from prepayment to direct debit and they did a check on my meter and said i was over £130 in debt, which dated back to missing payments between end nov and feb a few years ago. During this time i was not really living in the flat, i got…
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British Gas Homecare - Result
Morning All Just thought I let you know about a result I had with British Gas. I’ve been on their 3* service package for a number of years. Out of the blue (I was expecting their service visit later on in the year) I received a letter saying that they were going to call to service the heating unit on the 13th March between…
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Powergen being naughty again
i got my original bill for 24/01/06 to 14/04/2006 with correct "Actual" meter readings, but wrong tariff and no discount :( so complained and got the discount and the new tariff applied and the bill recalculated :D now looking at the bill they have altered my meter readings to random numbers so that i "used" more after the…
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!!! Uswitch + Powergen Customers Warning !!!
USWITCH or USTITCH ??? Powergen customers on ENERGYONLINE tariff who compare on this site are only allowed to select tariffs , that uswitch can do for you online, however that DOES NOT include the *ENERGYONLINE tariff... So like what does that mean? It means that when you are comparing and they ask for your current…
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debt on my prepayment meter
sorry this was just the same as my previous post. My computer was having a funny views minutes so i went out and when i cam ehome it sent it again. Don't know how to delete threads,so just edited to say sorry. HT
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DO YOU KNOW EQUIPOWER & EQUIGAS
Just wondering if any can help with EQUIPOWER & EQUIGAS i am thinking of switching my gas to the above company but would like answers for the below company as they come top on comparsion website Dilemma 1 Is the Above a reputable company - no bad experiences 2.Do u actually get the trariff advertised which is 1.94 per unit…
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Scottish Power
I decided a couple of months ago to switch so called up scottish power and said I was moving due to price increases etc. They offered tto put me on a capped rate that seemed quite competitive. As others hadn't put their prices up yet so I went with it. When my bill was calculated online this week my gas bill had trebled…
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british gas v southern electric
just recently swaoed my gas provider from bg to sothern elec,phoned bg today to confirm of change but the lady said south elec are putting prices up 33% from 1st may,now shes sown doubts in mind,even if they put there prices up 33% they might still be cheaper than bg,what u think?
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Npower - is it too good to be true?
I have just done a comparison through the Tesco site and it came up that I could save £411 per year if I switch to Npower sign on line. This really sounds too good to be true to me, I mean that is a tremendous saving. Does anyone have any experience of Npower. I have never switched before and have always been wary of doing…
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