NIE Bill Charged the Higher Rate

gibbyni

Just got our electric bill in and they have charged me 16.88p per unit for my electric from 8th Dec to 27th Feb. Now i thought they decreased the price on 1st Jan to 15.06p so why have i been charged the old rate. Sending them an email now to see what they say

Any one else get charged this amount?

lazer

Yes - i got charged the higher rate too and phoned about this - the 1st Jan date is only applicable for the Keypad meters etc.
I got really annoyed with this especially since i only moved into the house on the 19th Dec and wasn't even there all over christmas

The date you get the new discounted rate dependson your billing cycle

KiwiCoop

You've got to laugh. In just over a year this rate has gone from 10.69p to 11.11p to 12.66p to 16.88p, taking an £82 bill to £130 (+58%).

NIE are now "delivering on the promise" to reduce prices (to 15.06p).

A bit of googling will tell you that gas/coal commodity prices peaked in the middle of last year and are now down to what they were 18 months ago.

What chance that rate will ever be 10.69p again?!

What they do is hike it in one fell swoop (12.66p to 16.88p in 3 months) then for the next two years tell us how great they are by dropping it in tiny increments.

To compound our powerlessness, Viridian Group (NIE's owners) don't even have publicly-listed shares should we want a slice of their action!

cifpower

I wondered why my quarterly bill had gone up from £65 to £90! :eek:

Old_Git

cifpower wrote: »

I wondered why my quarterly bill had gone up from £65 to £90! :eek:

£65 a quarter my god how did you keep it so low

kudos

My bill for summer 08 was £25!

It pays to turn those lights off....

cifpower

Old_Git wrote: »

£65 a quarter my god how did you keep it so low

Well its only me who lives here and I have all my bulbs changed over to energysaving ones if that helps

Golden_Anemone

My electricity charge has gone from £46 a month to £72. :eek: They have yet to reduce this in light of the new price.

seatzie

aye just got my bill at the weekend, from 140 last quarter to 204 this quarter....!!!!!!???? oh aye thats right all those damn Christmas lights, fibre optic trains, xmas trees etc my missus insisted on having...........sod that Christmas will be dark next year lol

beautifullybroken

Our bill has jumped from £139 to £206 :eek: With it being the winter months we have used the electric more so hopefully next months quarterly bill will come down a bit.

jenny-wren

According to the flyer we got with our bill yesterday (which was about £35 higher than it normally is!):
"The new rates will be seen on quarterly bills issued in April, May and June for electricity used in the previous quarter (3 months)*"

"*depending on when the meter is read a few customers may not see the new rates until July."

Surely if the new rate was set on 1 January 2009 NIE should be backdating the price and adjusting bills accordingly?