Saving with British Gas Energy Smart

Plushchris

Cardew wrote: »

What was your address again please? - I am collecting them to sell on Ebay

Wouldnt have thought you'd get much just for the transmitter would you?


I was thinking of putting it on ebay anyway to be honest, I used it for the first month I had it and realised that there wasnt a lot I can change anyway so its been unplugged and stuck in a drawer since (saving me money by not having it plugged in! lol)

Bark01

If you are a new customer I can't see how this can be possibly be of worth?

It’s not available on their cheapest tariff and if I take industry typical consumptions as a base and compare the cheapest tariff its available on against the cheapest tariff in each area, I'd be able to save at least £130 by going with another supplier.

The Energy monitor only costs £35 quid to buy outside of EnergySmart so I'm £100 up!

Granted if your already a customer and an old online tariff (not WebSaver) it maybe worth it, but I’d take a punt on the old online tariffs being tracked up closer to core tariff at some point in the next 6 months.

timtimti

Save more by buying the British Gas badged Owl CM119 from Amazon for £22.50 free delivery. I did.

Search for "British-Gas-New-Energy-Monitor" on Amazon.

NeverInDebt

I have had two of those monitors and neither works despite another I borrowed the owl works fine

fayraz

penrhyn wrote: »

I too have signed up, electricity only.
The monitor turned up yesterday.
It displays your instantaneous and cumulative consumption. The later being for today, yesterday a week and a month.
Readings can be in Kw, £s or CO2 for the ecomentalists.
A nice feature is that you can set a daily target, which is shown as a horizontal bar.
Don't like the monitor being mains powered.
You can buy these from Amazon.

I signed up but have not received the monitor yet, how long did it take for the monitor to arrive?

penrhyn

Account opened on the 17th Nov, monitor arrived on the 24th.

fayraz

penrhyn wrote: »

Account opened on the 17th Nov, monitor arrived on the 24th.

Thanks, I opened mine on the 19th Nov, I'll give them a few more days.

hansi

I signed up on 20th November. Got my gas credit into my account today and received my energy monitor today

hansi

Pardon me for being a little dense here, but I have just been setting my monitor up but got a bit stuck with the tariffs. I am on a Tier1 DD tariff which is 18.879 and 10.152. When I tried to enter these figures, I found you can only enter whole numbers and how do you know when the second tier kicks in? Or am I doing something completely wrong?

penrhyn

Yup you are not doing it correctly.
The meter can only cope with one tariff figure. The two rates that the instructions refer to are day and night rate figures, Economy 7 in other words.
You could either use 12 pence which would be a rough average or work out a more accurate average rate from an old bill.
Simply divide the cost by the number of units used, and don't forget to add the VAT.