Energy Bill Help

KimYeovil

Grrr! Just do a single subtraction of readings a year apart. What is it with these people and their 'ooh, add four bills together' malarkey!!! Do people really find that simpler??? Always sounds a lot more fiddly to me.

graemewh

Kim Im new to all this sorry but adding the last 4 the results I have are :-

7744 electricity
32300 gas

Then when I go to which switch it did come up the saving of £396 for monthly direct debit then i took all filters off and got british gas with savings of £667 can this be right?

HappyMJ

Maybe...which region are you in. I put those figures into my calculator and it comes back with a saving of £720 in the East Midlands on British Gas Websaver 11 Duel Fuel. The best standard plan is British Gas's Standard plan (paid by direct debit) at a saving of £402. So yes I'd say it's right.

graemewh

Im in the Northwest sorry to be totally new but how can there be so much of a difference £720 and £402 in the same region

HappyMJ

graemewh wrote: »

Im in the Northwest sorry to be totally new but how can there be so much of a difference £720 and £402 in the same region

The difference is the compulsion to use monthly direct debit, you are fixed for 12+ months, must be duel fuel, must be managed online and no paper bills. At those usage figures it's worth the hassle to consider the Websaver plan. You'll be saving around £300 for those sacrifices.

Just to confirm I put your figures in for North West and they are correct. The figures are a saving of £675 or £404 so pretty much the same as your figures except for an £8 extra saving on both tariffs.

KimYeovil

Assuming you are in Scottish Power's home region then savings of £700 are available if you switch from the standard tariffs with Scottish Power.

British Gas WS 11 and EOn SOL 6 are cheapest. Even Scottish Power's own cheapest tariff would save £500 per year.

What 'filters' are you talking about?

Edit: just noticed you are in the northwest. Random Liverpool postcode yields similar results (£45 dearer for scousers!).

graemewh

Happy MJ thankyou
So which the duel fuel british gas is best?monthly Direct Debit
Websaver 11
Dies this mean have to stay on thsi for 12 months? but will be worth it in the long run with that amount of saving

graemewh

Kim it was just the filter of monthyl direct debit
it seems the British Gas Websaver will be the best

HappyMJ

graemewh wrote: »

Happy MJ thankyou
So which the duel fuel british gas is best?monthly Direct Debit
Websaver 11
Dies this mean have to stay on thsi for 12 months? but will be worth it in the long run with that amount of saving

It's actually 14 months..

• Minimum 6% discount against standard prices guaranteed until 31st May 2012.
• Paperless billing and manage your account online.
• Only available to customers paying by Direct Debit.
• Only available to new customers taking Dual Fuel.
• Cancellation fee applies £30 gas and £30 electricity if cancelled before 31st May 2012.
• Exclusive offer only available online.

graemewh

Im doing this for my parents as they are paying way over the odds.
What does my mum do about cancelling with scottish power and then starting with British Gas?