Coming off Economy 7 - Which suppliers do what?

jd87

As we all know, economy 7 is the wrong tariff for a lot of people. Personally I believe that most people who are on economy 7 are probably losing money because of it. To come off economy 7 some suppliers need you to change meter, some charge for this, and some don't. I think it would be useful to have a thread to collect information about what different suppliers do.

So please let me know of your experiences and which supplier it was and I will add them to this first post.

Charge for a meter change:

Free meter change:

No meter change required:

• Eon

Premier_2

I think you will get conflicting advice depending on people's experience.

I used to be supplied by Eon for a significant number of years until this year when I switched supplier. I asked them on a number of occasions what it would take to change from E7 to non-E7 and was always told I would need my meter changed to a single rate meter and that they would make a charge of about £50 to do so.

This is contrary to recent post(s) on this board that suggest no meter change is required by eon which begs the questions:
(a) was I continually being misled by eon
(b) is the requirement possibly different region to region by eon
or
(c) has eon's policy on this recently changed (i.e. in about the last year)


According to posts I have read, BG apparently do not need a meter change either.

Another thing to note is that depending on supplier, tariff & region, E7 may be more beneficial than the comparable non-E7 tariffs. e.g. Scottish Power standard tariffs in some regions irrespective of how little overnight electricity is used.

I'd be interested if anyone has found the same with other suppliers.
I'm wondering if, as the market changes and the old assumptions such as being on a dual fuel tariff is always the best policy, whether the old assumption that E7 is expensive unless you use significant amounts of overnight electricity are correct.

For the record, I only use about 25% electricity overnight (which bearing in mind 7/24 = almost 30%) and the difference between E7 and non-E7 is negligable to me with my current supplier.