My Atlantic price drops are much less than published averages

Cal_Culater

Just a warning to check what percentage price drop you actually received from Atlantic in the round of cuts yesterday, so that you are not misled. The published "average 4%" drop for gas and "average 9%" drop for electricity may not apply to you. It depends on your area and tariff.

In fact, my bill for gas will drop only 2.4% and electricity only 7.5%, all calculated on accurate annual kWh consumption. Having complained, Atlantic just told me that I am one of the unlucky ones in the average.

For my area, I note that part of the reason is that the "online standing charge" tariffs have come down a lot more than the "online no standing charge" tariffs.

You would think that if I am a loser in this, there must be some winners to make up the averages. Accordingly, I'm interested in doing a bit of a straw poll to establish the variance. If anyone is doing significantly worse or better than the published averages above, please post.

Off to the switching sites now.................

Premier_2

Why don't you switch to the online standing charge tariff, if that has a greater saving.

As long as you use at least all the tier 1 units (almost always the case for electricity unless the home is unoccupied for long periods of time) then paying a standard charge is usually the same as the premium that tier 1 units attract.

Cal_Culater

Premier wrote: »

Why don't you switch to the online standing charge tariff, if that has a greater saving.

As long as you use at least all the tier 1 units (almost always the case for electricity unless the home is unoccupied for long periods of time) then paying a standard charge is usually the same as the premium that tier 1 units attract.

I agree, usually the standing charge has been about the same as the tier 1 premium. However, last August Atlantic changed this and made the no standing charge tariff cheaper (so I changed). Now they have reversed this and the tariffs are about the same again.

The point of my post was really to warn that many people may actually receive significantly less than the average price drops that Atlantic publish in their spin, and so think that they are better off than they actually are.