The cheapest Gas and Electric combination

lightSwitch_3

Hard to tell who is cheaper unless you put the prices in the spreadsheet I made. And you have to compare like with like and that is tricky and time consuming.
I've been checking this out for a while now and it tends to take you round in circles if only because I get different pricing figures from the same company every time I phone.
Take care because they love quoting prices without VAT - that really gets my goat because if I forget to ask then I'm not sure if it is without VAT or with so I have to bloody ring again and go through their answering service yet again which takes ages on most of them.

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pwruRCa0Pj0rXxXGkJsTHWg

Good Luck.

Cardew

overworked_underpaid wrote: »

Correct me if I'm wrong, but my calculations show that for high consumption in the London Area, the cheapest option is Dual Fuel British Gas Click Energy 6 tarrif.

Can somebody confirm this?

I think you will find that all the comparison websites agree with that conclusion.

Probably because it is the correct information!

1carminestocky

overworked_underpaid wrote: »

Correct me if I'm wrong, but my calculations show that for high consumption in the London Area, the cheapest option is Dual Fuel British Gas Click Energy 6 tarrif.

Can somebody confirm this?

It will be interesting if OFGEM finally get their new dentures delivered and fitted and outlaw BG and other's wholly discredited habit of continually superseding their Click tariffs (6, count 'em, in approx 2 years!) so as to leave their loyal customers on the old, uncompetitive click tariff in order to subsidise their super duper new Click tariff to the top of the switching sites. I wonder what they will do then? Can't wait, personally....

littletommytucker

KimYeovil hit the nail on the head. When the market opened up for competition it would have been easy for British Gas and each Local Electricity Distributor to slash prices to levels that no other companies could sell at and make a profit, so the energy regulator stopped them doing this. So you will find that British Gas electricity in each are will generally beat all other company prices, and that the Local Electricity Distributor is cheaper for gas! How very backwards!

Plushchris

Cardew wrote: »

Mine - no idea if it is representative is(rounded to nearest %)
%
Jan = 16
Feb = 15
Mar = 12
Apr = 9
May = 5
Jun = 3
Jul = 3
Jul = 3
Aug = 3
Sep = 4
Oct = 8
Nov = 9
Dec = 13

Yes I know that is 103%

LOL! :rotfl:

You work out percentages like Npower calculate years! :T

overworked_underpaid

lightSwitch wrote: »

Hard to tell who is cheaper unless you put the prices in the spreadsheet I made. And you have to compare like with like and that is tricky and time consuming.
I've been checking this out for a while now and it tends to take you round in circles if only because I get different pricing figures from the same company every time I phone.
Take care because they love quoting prices without VAT - that really gets my goat because if I forget to ask then I'm not sure if it is without VAT or with so I have to bloody ring again and go through their answering service yet again which takes ages on most of them.

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pwruRCa0Pj0rXxXGkJsTHWg

Good Luck.

Still not sure why this is any different to comparison websites as they quote both with and without VAT prices. Strange thing is that when I checked last week BG CE6 was the chepest dual fuel. Now its NPower paperless billing. However if you select BG CE6 for Electricity and nPower Standard for Gas, it states you are no better or worse than the dual fuel nPower tarrif. Anybody else seeing this?

lightSwitch_3

overworked_underpaid

This is more or less true because of the discounts that they give. If you don't go dual then you lose some discounts. There might be £100 discount to be had.
For example: British Gas Click 6 Elec only (5110Kwh/year) with npower gas only (40851 KWh/year) works out the same as the cheapest dual fuel I found which is npower's online V16.
Both configurations cost £1800 a year each.