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Historical tracking of suppliers tarrifs

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duncan303
duncan303 Posts: 305 Forumite
edited 4 February 2010 at 8:40AM in Energy
Hi,

I have been looking for a site that contains graphical data of suppliers tariffs. Essentially a regional XY representing the trends of data as supplied by any of the comparison sites.

Had a hunt round but without sucess, there must be supplier boundaries and I assume there are possibly maybe 30 in the uk., so a gleaning of price comparison data daily in each region would allow graphical trends to be represented.

Anybody know if there is anything out there?


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  • Premier_2
    Premier_2 Posts: 15,141 Forumite
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    Bearing in mind the umpteen various tariffs the various suppliers offer, the various discounts that then may apply, etc I suggest it would be very difficult to give that information in graphical form especially including all historical changes.

    This site used to give average percentage changes by supplier (can't find it now) but that too was confusing when some suppliers have average savings over regions that were given savings ... but half the regions weren't getting any savings at all!
    "Now to trolling as a concept. .... Personally, I've always found it a little sad that people choose to spend such a large proportion of their lives in this way but they do, and we have to deal with it." - MSE Forum Manager 6th July 2010
  • Thanks for your thoughts. I would suggest that a league table based on positional results from a comparison site for an individual supplier boundary incorporating medium user criteria would be very easy to produce and interpret.

    for a person who knows their neighbourhood one can generally inform who is the (say) cheapest supplier. In its simplest form I would be providing a comparison site with my email and ask them to alert me when my current tariff falls below a preset value limit of potential savings with respect to no 1 on the list.

    As for the more predictive results from raw data this might indicate, for example the probability that a supplier might be due to introduce a new tariff.


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