British gas pre pay meter 2 rates explained help

dalebailey1987

please could some one explain my pre pay meter for gas 2 different tarrifs , and what each means at current i am using my gas for exactly 5 and half hours a day and £20 is lasting me 5 days , is there something wrong sumwhere or is this correct

1= 8.341
2= 3.409

cheers

KimYeovil

With British Gas, the first 670 kWh per quarter are charged at the higher price. The rest wil be charged at tier 2.

Essentially you are paying a standing charge of £11 per month plus 3.4p for every kWh.

If you are getting five days of five and a half hours heat for £20 in these temperatures I would say that is pretty good going - that's only £120 per month.

dalebailey1987

so after the use of 670kwh i get charged at rate 2 per kwh , could i ask 1 thing does it make any difference if i top up £20 a time or would it be wise to top up say the £120 in one go as after the £20 has been used does it reset back to rate 1 and i have to use 670kwh to get rate to again , the reason i ask is over xmas i put £40 in and it lasted a whole week and a half being on over 10 hours a day now £20 only last for 5 days at 5 and a half hours sorry for being so confusing

cheers

Premier_2

It doesn't matter how you top up.

The tier 1 charge is applied pro-rata per day based on consumption ... with a bit of jiggery-pokery should you not use all the tier 1 units in any one day, but limited to the amount specified every quarter.

dalebailey1987

hi there could you explain your reply a little better sorry if im being a little slow lol just want to get the best out of my pre pay meter and make my money go further

cheers

KimYeovil

The way to make your money go further is to change tariff (if a cheaper one is available with a different (or the same) supplier.) Check a comparison site such as uswitch.

Worrying about two tier tariffs is not going to make a difference. If you don't get it, ignore it - it doesn't matter.

KimYeovil

(For example, if you switch to Ebico and have a low consumption your bills would be more than halved.)

chrisb1357

Hi,

Not sure if i can help here but i have been on British Gas Prepayment Meters for Gas and Electric from Sept last year in our flat and i signed up to the Online Click Package with British gas to save a bit more and my rates in my area for these are below

Gas
Screen (9) - 07.991p
Screen (10) - 03.266p

I found it was a nightmare trying to get the tarif for the click package sent to my meter but got it sorted after 2 months and have been happy so far.

I think the newer rates are a little lower as well from this month due to the new rates from BG

What area are you in?

Edit: Here is a link to the rates etc for Standard and Click. These are the new rates from BG from 4th Feb http://www.britishgas.co.uk/products-and-services/energy/our-products/pay-as-you-go.html

Chris

dalebailey1987

hey chris cheers for ur relpy yeh we got our rates updated today , we are in the notts area still struggling on understandng the two tier thing and when abouts it changes over though lol