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RIDICULOUS Powergen Charges £3k+ !
After reading another thread I thought I'd call powergen and see if they had sorted out the mess they made of my electricity bills, and the easy answer is NO !
June 2006 -- just called him to get bill amount for March to June as I was thinking about it - - £3200 :eek: it has my balance at - so I guess they havent quite sorted it out yet !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Think I will be filing a claim for expenses here ! Do you think I can ? I am sure they owe me some money - the increase in the DD payments caused a lot of other stuff not to get paid...
The guy from powergen is calling me back in a few minutes !
last year my electricity jumped from about £200 a quarter to suddently £700 a quater - and they put up my DD's from £35 a month to £121 a month !!!
I was HOPPING MAD
Turns out the readings were being transposed - I'm still waiting for it all to get sorted out - but have got my DD's back down to £50 a month while its sorted.
I'm with Powergen and you can go online to view all your bills and enter meter readings - which I have been doing regulary now...but still !
My electric is quite high because we have no gas/central heating so use 2kw heaters in the winter months (as little as possible) and supplement it with coal fires in the eves. NO heating at all in the summer (actually we put out heaters in the garage from April to October so we're not tempted to turn them on)
Aslo the timeswitch on the meter is out by an hour - which they came to fix today at five to nine - just as I was taking the children to school (duurrrrr) so guess I will have to wait a few more weeks to get that fixed.
I have posted my last bill amounts below so you can see what I mean....
08 Mar 2006 133.31
04 Dec 2005 213.68
23 Sep 2005 288.79
06 Jun 2005 101.21
19 Mar 2005 721.14:eek:
16 Mar 2005 189.06
17 Dec 2004 977.95:eek:
09 Sep 2004 94.10
10 Jun 2004 66.19
June 2006 -- just called him to get bill amount for March to June as I was thinking about it - - £3200 :eek: it has my balance at - so I guess they havent quite sorted it out yet !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Think I will be filing a claim for expenses here ! Do you think I can ? I am sure they owe me some money - the increase in the DD payments caused a lot of other stuff not to get paid...
The guy from powergen is calling me back in a few minutes !
last year my electricity jumped from about £200 a quarter to suddently £700 a quater - and they put up my DD's from £35 a month to £121 a month !!!
I was HOPPING MAD
Turns out the readings were being transposed - I'm still waiting for it all to get sorted out - but have got my DD's back down to £50 a month while its sorted.
I'm with Powergen and you can go online to view all your bills and enter meter readings - which I have been doing regulary now...but still !
My electric is quite high because we have no gas/central heating so use 2kw heaters in the winter months (as little as possible) and supplement it with coal fires in the eves. NO heating at all in the summer (actually we put out heaters in the garage from April to October so we're not tempted to turn them on)
Aslo the timeswitch on the meter is out by an hour - which they came to fix today at five to nine - just as I was taking the children to school (duurrrrr) so guess I will have to wait a few more weeks to get that fixed.
I have posted my last bill amounts below so you can see what I mean....
08 Mar 2006 133.31
04 Dec 2005 213.68
23 Sep 2005 288.79
06 Jun 2005 101.21
19 Mar 2005 721.14:eek:
16 Mar 2005 189.06
17 Dec 2004 977.95:eek:
09 Sep 2004 94.10
10 Jun 2004 66.19
Debt at lightbulb moment (June 2006) - £12984
Debt now (June 2006) - £12984
Debt free date - July 2011
Target: To be debt free before June 2009 - somehow!:rolleyes:
WON £4077 off Abbey / WON £1056 off ABBEY / WON £1319 off ABBEY / WON £80 off CAPITAL ONE / WON £1000 collection charge HFC / claiming £1.2k HFC BENEFICIAL, £800 CITICARDS.
Debt now (June 2006) - £12984
Debt free date - July 2011
Target: To be debt free before June 2009 - somehow!:rolleyes:
WON £4077 off Abbey / WON £1056 off ABBEY / WON £1319 off ABBEY / WON £80 off CAPITAL ONE / WON £1000 collection charge HFC / claiming £1.2k HFC BENEFICIAL, £800 CITICARDS.
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Have you got this sorted yet? You could always give Energywatch a call, see if they can hurry them along.
Sue0
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