Switched to Ebico, saved a fortune!

nephilim

I recently switched to Ebico (for both gas and electric) and I am now paying around half what I was before.

I am on a pre payment meter for both gas and electric and with british gas was going through £30 electric a month and £30 gas (from Sept - Nov), with Ebico I am now going through £16 electric a month and £14 gas (From Dec - Feb average)

I highly recommend them as they have been good service, and even did a boiler check for us before we switched and got our landlord to get us a new one under the heating homes grant thing!

GetRealBabe

I considered Ebico but their electricity is 13.40p/KWh in London whereas npower Go fix is 8.86p/KWh plus 16p a day standing charge.

What area are you in?

karatedragon

I have Ebico fo Gas and saved a fortune. I have just switched my electric to them too. For a particular reason I have actually requested prepayment meters to be installed so using Ebico will be a saving.

By the way how do you find being on a prepayment meter? Do you ever find yourself plunged into darkness?

A_fiend_for_life

Ebico is around 30% cheaper for me compared with my old tariff SP standard quarterly billing. Low user.

nephilim

Never see myself in darkness no, due to the fact that the mrs and I check the meters daily and if we are below £1 we top up with £10. If we go on holiday everything but the fridge and sky+ box gets switched off.

KimYeovil

A_fiend_for_life wrote: »

Ebico is around 30% cheaper for me compared with my old tariff SP standard quarterly billing. Low user.

Are you sure? Even with SP's £25 per quarter prompt payment discount? I suspect you would have to be a not-all-that-low a user for there to be a 30% difference. Of course, with a different region and older tariff you may be correct - but it is currently worth looking closely at Scottish Power's no standing charge tariff. (The £100 annual prompt payment discount will not be included on the comparison site estimate.) And, of course, with Ebico you can be a little lax with your payment.

KimYeovil

GetRealBabe wrote: »

I considered Ebico but their electricity is 13.40p/KWh in London whereas npower Go fix is 8.86p/KWh plus 16p a day standing charge.

What area are you in?

So? According to those figures a £16 bill with Ebico would cost £15.50 from nPower. And the gas bill will be more than halved.

Boxman

Would it be possible for all the Ebico 'fans' above to give us their actual usage figures in kWh pa? Otherwise, with respect I suggest their comments are meaningless.

A_fiend_for_life

Kim - my earlier values were a bit roughshod.

(Note when I got my meter replaced consumption was comparable on old and new so there is unlikely to be a faulty meter.)

Actual values from spreadsheet year to date are: 976 kWh and 2486 kWh for electricity and gas respectively.

For area 18 this gives a total of £225 per annum for Ebico and £302 for SP NSC pay on receipt. So £152 per annum with ppd. ppd is now £150 on energy helpline. It now makes Ebico 50% more expensive. I eat my hat.

Last time I was with them it was £50 a year ppd.

This would give an effective cost of 2.47 p / kWh for gas and 6.75 p / kWh electricity weighted on Ebico's cost ratio.

Surely SP would have restrictions on minimum consumption?

KimYeovil

A_fiend_for_life wrote: »

[...]Surely SP would have restrictions on minimum consumption?

And surely they should have a restriction on the number of times per year a household can claim £110 cashback for a dual fuel switch to them. But they don't. Shrug.

2010

Well I used to be with Ebico but by switching to BGas websaver 5 duel fuel tariff,I`m saving about £90 a year.

Agree Ebico is probably cheaper for pre payment meters and low users.