Help! Npower Want To Double My Dd

mikemoate

You say you have been with npower for six months. I don't know if your electricity useage varies over the year, mine doesn't much, but if yours does they are calculating your consumption based upon the winter months. I would take this issue up with them.

showmethemoney!_2

I switched to Equipower and Equigas, there pricing is clear and concise. Thanks for your thoughts all who replied. :beer:

Morseman

showmethemoney! wrote:

I switched to Equipower and Equigas, there pricing is clear and concise. Thanks for your thoughts all who replied. :beer:

It will be worth your while taking regular meter readings, as I said in a posting the other day. Then, you can start to see just how much energy you are actually using. Plus, you will then have readings that you can phone in instead of any estimated readings they want to use. You should do this for gas as well as electric.

I used to work for a Supplier, and I was once asked, by a member of the billing department, why their home bill was so high. They could not figure out how they could use so much. One look at the bill showed they had been paying a fixed amount every quarter, but this had under estimated their use. So, when the Supplier recalculated the amount it needed to recover the under billed sum they were being asked to pay a lot more to pay off the debt. My colleague then divided the new amount, including the arrears, by the rate and came to a higher use than the meter reading!

And that was someone who was supposed to be looking after bills for large industrial and commercial customers...

smartie1976

Morseman is of course quite right - take regular readings and submit them to your supplier. You can ring them any time and request an up-to-date balance, which will help you to maintain a debt free account. You have to remember that any price increases will mean you increase your DD. So make sure that next time prices rise you pro-actively phone them and increase your DD by the same % - that way no nasty shocks at the end of the year!

Remember, gas prices this last winter hit record prices, and wholesale gas prices increased by 202% between 2003 and 2005, but some consumers simply don't understand why they end up owing money to their suppliers.