Amazed that BG has come out cheapest

Krystov

Hi,

I have spent a bit of time looking at switching and have been quite surprised that BG have come out cheapest for us. We currently use Southern Electric for both gas and electrcity and U-switch champagne show powergen as best (with BG just behind) whilst the energyhelpline cashback linked site has powergen at the same cost as U-switch but BG better as they have a bilateral £15 per fuel sign up bonus that they have agreed with BG on top of the usual dual fuel/e-billing discounts

I have spent some time working out our exact KwH usage and forecasting the cost of our current supplier at curent prices and was about to go ahead and switch but Martin is currently advising people to wait as BG have upped prices and the others are yet to follow. If BG have upped theirs already and work out the cheapest for me is there any reason to wait?

Cheers

cLeO

Are you sure U-Switch includes the BG price increase? They have announced a price increase but the prices aren't actually going up until Setember 4th so U-Switch may not be using the BG higher prices until then. Can anybody else shed any light on this?

Krystov

I used both the U-Switch Champagne and the energyhelpline cashback links from this site and they both brought up the same prices for BG and powergen. I used the actual quoted prices per unit/kWh to calculate my saving and did not just take the website calculation.

I will have a look a BG's website and see if the figures relate to the pre or post price rise announcement as this could be of interest to others.

masonic

I presume this comparison relates to 'Click Energy' from BG? I don't think this tariff was affected by the latest price rises (it had a major rise in July), so it's price rises seem to be out of synch with the standard tariff.

Krystov

Bingo. It is for the click energy deal. I have extracted the price matrix from deep within the BG website and it ties in with the prices used in the comparison sites. Indeed, it did last go up in July and the website seems to imply that prices will not be changed until later in the year. This can only refer to a future price rise though :eek:

tomstickland

I've been looking at the Click rates and they're pretty good:

Use the "click energy rates" link on this page: http://www.house.co.uk/cgi-bin/house//house/containers/journeyRedirect.jsp?BV_SessionID=HHHH1134766106.1155656193HHHH&BV_EngineID=ccdcaddiiiijflicefecfngdfhidfmh.0&_txtJourneyKey=click_energy_apply&_txtChangedChannel=true&channelId=-8383&_linkKey=click_345_img&_strType=INLINE

masonic

tomstickland wrote:

I've been looking at the Click rates and they're pretty good.

They are if you can get signed up to them and not end up on the standard tariff and unable to do anything about it as per my experience :mad:.

tomstickland

It's a close call between Equipower and Click Energy in terms of price for me. I'm going to wait until I have some usage figures available.

Derek_A.

Does anyone know what the new prices are from Ebico?

I understand that they are due for an increase in September.

The site is still showing the current prices.