Anybody able to talk me through my bill using idiot-speak?

mech_2

notbritishgas:
I see. Southern Electric is not such a good deal then. The information on USwitch is misleading. It clearly says "Prices fixed until 2010". I will email them.

Frogling:
It seems the EON's "Price Protection 2009 V17" is your best bet after all then. You would initially be paying something like 13% more than you are currently, but the predicted price rises are very likely to be more than that, so you still end up better off in the longer term.

notbritishgas

mech wrote: »

notbritishgas:
I see. Southern Electric is not such a good deal then. The information on USwitch is misleading. It clearly says "Prices fixed until 2010". I will email them.

Frogling:
It seems the EON's "Price Protection 2009 V17" is your best bet after all then. You would initially be paying something like 13% more than you are currently, but the predicted price rises are very likely to be more than that, so you still end up better off in the longer term.

Yes it is a shame that Southern electric has resorted to a play on words to confuse prospective customers. All you are getting is the fixed 2% off their standard tariff (some would say that is better than nothing but still liable for a 35% increase if BG is anything to go by)
Reading other threads it does seem that the comparison sites have also been fooled because I believe they do show this tariff in their fixed/capped section.

moncman

Looking at my gas bill from December 2007-June 2008, we've used 8474.68 kWh, so I'm assuming that I should double this plus maybe add a little bit on to find annual consumption? We pay £26.00 per month via direct debit.

Electric end No 07 to end May 2008, 2344 units - again, do I just double this and add a little extra on for annual consumption? We pay £43.00 per month via direct debit for electric.

Personally I would say that Dec-Jun would be a higher consupmtion than Jun-Dec even if the periods are exactly the same. Jan/Feb tend to be colder than Nov/Dec and May/Jun colder than Jul/Aug.
So I would not double an add a bit but probably double and take some off (or multiply by 90%)
Same for argument for Leccy Nov-May but more so.

Not an exact science but hope you work it through