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John_Pierpoint

JaG5553 wrote: »

My granddaughter is in a dilemma and needs advice.
Two weeks ago she switched from British Gas to NPower to a fixed rate until May 2013 on Duel Fuel. She has Economy 7 for heating the water at night by immersion and Gas for radiators only.
Yesterday her landlord said they are changing the heating to Haverland new generation electric wall heaters. This means she will have electric wall heaters on the higher daily electric rate and immersion on the lower Economy 7. There will be no gas.
So, what should she do as the Gas has a standing charge of 59p per day, the electric is higher while the heaters are being used but cheaper when the water is heated at night.
We have already missed the option of cancelling the contract as it has been 16 days since switching.
Urgent advise please.

I don't begin to understand this posting.
The landlord seems to be the villain of the piece, by putting the tenants from potentially 90% plus efficient gas heating into high cost daytime 30% efficient electric heating = instant fuel poverty. Not to mention the effect of all that extra carbon dioxide wrecking the planet.
We need to know more about granddaughter's "household" and name the legal status of the landlord. How many other tenants are involved in this change. On the face of it this is just an exercise in the landlord saving the cost and annual hassle of the gas safety certification and dumping those costs and more on the tenants.

If the gas is being cut off, then where will be no gas bill to pay.

I would approach nPower with sweetness and light initially, saying this is a situation outside the control of both the supplier and the customer, that forces the contract to be renegotiated.
Then if they try to get clever say it is "force majeure" because the gas has been cut off for safety reasons.

Of course I might have misunderstood the situation, perhaps the landlaord has installed his own water turbine source of electricity and the tenants are going to get a huge reduction in their heating costs

souwester

Please help!
I am 70 yrs old with a serious health problem. My wife cannot use the internet - despite both mine, my son's and my daughter's help and encouragement. Nevertheless, I want her to be independent when I am no longer around so I want a dual fuel tariff which is not online and will give her monthly paper bills.
I am currently with EDF Energy Online Saver 8 which comes to an end on 31st March. Looking at comparison sites it seems that EDFs standard tariff is, if not the cheapest, fairly reasonable and seems to be OK for a non internet user.
Is it possible to stay with the same provider, in this case EDF, and opt for a different product from them through a comparison website and get cashback? Or am I being too cheeky?
Any comments on any aspect of this will be most appreciated - even critical ones! lol.