Energy Bill Help

graemewh

Just got My Mum and Dads quarter combined gas and electricty bill and its £885.07!! the previous one was £755! my dad used to do all the bills but hes very ill now and we are looking to change as I think that is extremely high we are with Scottish Power on Standard by what I can see and read (sorry I havent done the bills in the house as of yet) just wanted advice to cut the cost thankyou

NeverInDebt

Heating and using showers is main reasons why bills are high

Its worth telling your supplier regularly of your meter readings

Also normally you cant move supplier until any debt is paid

If you change supplier make sure you use a comparison web site and always use your consumption rather than direct debts etc.

Premier_2

Get your mum to contact Scottish Power and ask what their average annual consumption is in kWh.

Then plug that info into a couple of the comparison sites in the resource bar above and see what the best deal would be that your mum would be happy with.

Of course reducing energy consumption will always help.
http://www.scottishpower.co.uk/Home_Energy/Energy_Efficiency/Top_10_Tips/

graemewh

Thankyou, yes my mum will pay this bill I used comparison site and it came up a saving of over £2k with EON but wanted to make sure I wasnt getting conned in anyway

Premier_2

A saving of £2k?

Yes that sounds like a mistake. They only have a bill for £885 for the heaviest quarter. You can save some by switching supplier, but I doubt you'll save £2k i.e. a saving of well over 50%

graemewh

that was per annum the £2k after I keyed in how much we pay gas and electricity
so it quoted we ay £6460 per year and Eon say £3948 thats with FIX ONLINE NSC v8

scotsgirl_3

Don't use payment amounts, you will only get accurate results by inputting usage in KWH - try to find some old bills, or as others have said contact your current company to find out what the usage is. I've just done a comparison on a house which probably has similar usage (last quarter bill was £800ish) which was also on a standard tariff, and managed to cut £670 off it. I;d be quite surprised if 2k reduction is correct.

Premier_2

They were only charged £885 for the heaviest, winter quarter and you think they'll use almost £6.5k in a year???

I think you've made some mistake there.

The average household annual bill is only about £1200. Whilst your parents appears to be higher than average, £6.5k per annum seems wrong to me.

graemewh

what i did was keyed in this quarters bill for gas and electricty keyed in the tariff info etc and thats what came up
gas was £518 and electricity £364 for us this quarter

Premier_2

graemewh wrote: »

what i did was keyed in this quarters bill for gas and electricty keyed in the tariff info etc and thats what came up
gas was £518 and electricity £364 for us this quarter

Now follow the advice I gave in post #3 :cool:

graemewh

thats what im saying they are the details I keyed in and clicked compare