how to get rid of economy 7 please

Magentasue

Quick google says £1 to £1.50 a day at 6p per kwh.

Premier_2

A few more things to consider:

1. I see the OP's parents use Scottish Power as their energy supplier and are presumably on the E7 standard tariff. (since the plan is to possibly move them to the non-E7 standard tariff) This implies they pay their bills quarterly. I would recommend the OP checks the SP price list for the location the parents live in as SP have some strange pricing policies and in some regions, standard E7 tariff is always cheaper than the comparable non-E7 standard tariff no matter how little overnight electricity is consumed.

2. Whilst storage heaters are generally sized anywhere between about 1.7kW and 3.4kW, they do not usually draw that amount of energy for the full 7 hours they are switched on. They are thermostatically controlled and only draw sufficient power as to load them to the required temperature. I think that some may have the ability to partially load them too depending on the settings (i.e. only load say half of the total thermal bricks inside).
Therefore it's not a simple calculation of 7 x kWh rating x price per kWh

3. You can't really compare 1 households electricity usage to another. There are simply too many variables. I wouldn't therefore assume that the difference of 3000kWh to 4000kWh between the OP's and their parents annual usage is down to one storage heater. In fact it is unlikely such a storage heater consumes that amount of electricity in a year.

blisteringblue

We are with Scottish power and moved from Economy 7 last year when we finally put a gas combi boiler in and lovely radiators (storage heaters are the pits).

Once the heating was in I just rang up SP and told them I wanted a single rate meter. I think they charged me £50 for doing it but they arranged an appointment and an engineer came out and swapped it. He took the old readings and meter and said it would be 10 days before it reflected on my account. I actually think it was less that this but the single meter appeared with a zero balance and I did double check that the bill during the changeover contained the correct readings from the old meter and it did.

Was quite painless really. Shame prices have gone through the roof since (I was on a capped rate which ended in october) because I can't work out if it is any better.

allan673

thay are going onto a single rate meter and having the e7 meter swapped in 2 weeks, had to pay £52 to swap meter and an appointment to do it has been made - had to pay the £52 upfront on a card to make appointment.
they are paying bills by dd at present too and will continue to do so, a quick costing of last nights storage heater cost was 90 pence. by multiplying the kwh units used by the kwh cost. so £6.30 per week - £25.20 per month etc at a rough estimate i know but they will make savings im sure.

thankyou so much for all the replies