Massive Electricity Bill, Need Lots of Help!!!

Vestra

elf06 wrote: »

Ok so this may or may not help but I have storage heaters and was (up until the end of last year) on Scottish Hydro Electrics key meter with E7. I changed from key meter in Dec (seperate issue i know) to a normal DD bill. I was paying approx £40 a month in summer and approx £90 per month in winter. This should hopefully go down as I will get a 2% decrease for paperless billing and a further discount (5 or 8% I think) for paying by DD. Saying that I got a real fright when first quarterly statement came through as it was showing a bill of £429.43 and an outstanding balance of £169.43 - that was, of course, until I realised it was an estimate and was (by my calcutations) about £100 over that it should be. This should be easily cleared with less use in summer months!!

1.5% discount for signing up to their online tariff, careful not to get confused.

elf06

They told me over the phone it was 2% - so I hope what they told me was right!!
Dont know if theres a difference but its not an online tariff I have its a standard tariff (or something like that) but I get the discount for paying by DD and by going paperless.

EDIT - just checked and it their Standard THTC tariff

spiro

offpeak wrote: »

The thing to remember is that sse remain the transmission specialist after you switch so the supply and the meters are run by them and therefore they are run the same; the new 'supplier' is only really a billing intermediary.

That depends on which Meter Operator the supplier uses to maintain the meter. Lots of them no longer use the former PES MOP to look after meters. As an example BG moved from using the 14 local MOPs to 3 national MOPs about 6 years ago and have now moved to a single inhouse MOP.