Powergen Gas & Elec gone up from £71 to £120 p/m

edmond

Gas & Elec gone up from £71 to £1201 P/M
i have noticed today that my direct debits for gas and electric through Powergen has gone up from £71 per month start of the year to £120 per month.
i only live in a 2 bed, everything is electric except the bolier which is gas.
is this the norm?
i am on powergen standard and live in Buckinghamshire,
we have a 1 1/2 year old baby and another on the way in August, i understand the washing machine & tumble drier have been had at work over the last year, and my PC is on most of the time 24 7 but a £50 increase is a joke.
i have been told in there letter i can move to the 2010capped price offer but a premium applies.

i have an eaccount with Powergen and i think its time to fill in my meter readings everymonth.

any advice would be great.

sarah_elton

Part of the increase is due to their recent insane price hikes. I'm on quarterly bill rather than DD and my last one had gone up around 35%, due purely to the increase in per unit charge, rather than a change in usage.

Not very helpful I know but all the companies have done it recently.

wigginsmum

I've just had the same thing happen with Powergen - up from £74 to £100. I'm going to do as you are - submit readings every month. To think I swopped from London Energy last December for this.

In the meantime, it's prompted me to be energy-saving, so nothing is left on standby, and DH has put a clothesline in the garden so we're not using the tumbledrier.

Once the backlog is paid back, I'll look at swopping to another supplier.

stpandp

I do have a question - is there not also a yearly % discount with powergen - if so, when is this credited?

edmond

can you not just pay of the balance and move?
i have been looking at ebico

libra10

I've just started the transfer to EBICO from Powergen. Hoping things go smoothly.

Ember999

Letter this morning, Jumping from £47.00 a month to a whopping £77.00 a month. Just told them to stuff it and have started the transfer process to Ebico. I have had enough of Powergen! :mad:

Gal

stpandp wrote:

I do have a question - is there not also a yearly % discount with powergen - if so, when is this credited?

Not a yearly discount as such. If you pay by Direct debit and have gas and electric on one bill together you save 9% which is applied on everybill each quarter.

[Deleted User]

Before I moved house 6 months ago I was with Powergen for both Gas and Electricity, they raised my DD from £42 to £162 a month!!

I was in a 2 bed flat, also at home with a baby but gosh what an increase!

I couldn't wait to get rid of them when I moved house. I am now with Ebico and pay less even though I am in a 3 bed detached house (in the same area).

Uncivil_Servant

I got my letter from Powergen today saying that my monthly bill was going up from £60 to £82 until such time as my debit balance (about £62) was cleared, at which point it would be reviewed. I rang them and paid the debit balance by card, at which point the lady on the other end (not an Indian call centre at last - hurrah!) promptly dropped it back down to £62 a month.

Still tapping my details into the various switching websites and they reckon the cheapest is still ebico at £68 a month. I suppose this means I am due another annoing shunt at some point