overnight electricity

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blenky46 wrote: »

hello thanks for reply..my central heating is run on a combi so i dont have e7 i just thought electric was automaticly cheaper overnight ? so electric is a rip off price 24/7?..i work nights but the rest of my family are in at night (wife two kids) taking up three bedrooms between them no power on during the day and i think my thermostat is broke cos heating does not do the on off thing it is on constantly during the hours when it is on i live in 3 bed semi its an ex council house so its quite a big house

As you have gas, just get the cheapest electricity tariff you can - and not Economy 7.

Look at the comparison websites to see who is cheapest - it is probably BG Click 6 at the moment.

Ruthjfj

I just posted this as a nw thread, but repeat it here.

As I recently moved to Scottish Power to get a fixed rate deal, I wanted to know which overnight hours gave me the cheap rate. I spent ages looking for the information, failed to find it so finally emailed them to ask. The reply came that it depends on the actual supplier in my area rather than the billing provider, so had not changed. They said the times vary from winter to summer and the cheap hours for me (Cheltenham) turned out to be:

Winter Time
If on the old dial meter it is: 12am - 7am
If on a digital meter it is: 22:30pm - 00:30am and then 02:30am - 07:30am.

Summer Time
If on the old dial meter it is: 1am - 8am
If on a digital meter it is: 1:30am - 8:30am
I am now cross to realise that I have been setting my appliances overnight in the wrong time slots for years, and therefore not getting the full advantage of the cheap rate. I have never been informed that the old 11.30pm - 6.30am economy 7 slot had changed so significantly , let alone become a split shift for most of the year! How on earth was I expected to guess this? Pretty cheeky of them, considering you pay more to have the 2 meters and so you want to use the cheaper slot as much as possible. Any way I pass this on to save others making the same mistake.