New Electricity Supplier!!!

sakinge

Hi

I currently get my electricity from Southern Electric and am considering changing suppliers, if it saves me money.

I have storage heaters and I use a tariff called Flexiheat.

Does anyone know any companies that could provide me with Flexiheat?

Up until now I have been unsuccessful in finding an alternative supplier.

Thanks

amosworks

!!!!!! is Flexiheat?

penrhyn

Clucked if I know!

Presumably its a variation of economy 7, which lots of suppliers do.
As far as I can see from a quick Google, SSE don't offer it to new customers any more.
Suggest the OP tells us more about it.

Ken68

Hi Sak, it's not in energywatch knowledge base

http://www.energywatch.org.uk/your_questions/index.asp

and a google reference shows it is or was just for Southern Electric. Perhaps now called Economy 10.

Froglet

My sister in law is on the Economy 10 scheme as she has storage heaters.She had a job to get it and apparently only powergen do it.As she is a pensioner maybe that is the deciding factor? Worth a call to them?

ILoveAFreebie

I'm in a newly built flat with storage heaters and I'm with Powergen on Economy 10, which I'm told is 5 hours cheaper at night and 5 hours cheaper afternoon boost. I'm finding it really expensive. It's summer, ie no heating on, and my bills are averaging out £43 per month. Can't wait for winter, not!!! Hope I can switch to something cheaper.
Sakinge, is your Flexiheat with SE bill about the same price as mine?

Bullshine_2

I don't think anyone else can supply you.

You can do an enquiry with other providers however it is reccommended you have your supply number(s) to hand. This will indicate to the company if your meter type is supportable by them.

To find your supply number or 's' number, look on your bill and find something that looks like...

S20 500 343
1234 1234

It should start with S20 where you are.

hope this helps?

goodmole

I too have Flexiheat from Southern Electric. It is a three band tariff which allegedly gives their lowest cost for night storage. The trade off is that the daytime use is more expensive (and "daytime" runs until 19.30 I think). There is a 3rd band for weekend use. It all seems complicated and I only got it because that is what they advised for a person who works all day.

One bedroom flat, all electric. Winter quarter bill was £170, summer quarter bill was £98. Seems expensive to me but I can't do comparison on USwitch as they say this tariff doesn't exist!

Tim

JasminB

There are a number of tariffs similar to "Flexiheat" around the country. Some other examples are "Total Control" in Scottish Hydro-Electric's area and "Comfort Plus" in ScottishPower's area.

In theory these tariffs are open for competition as other companies other than those offering could, if they choose, offer alternative prices.

The DNOs (Distribution Network Operators) even publicise what is known as the DUoS (Distribution Use of System) charges along with all other rates to allow other suppliers to offer competing tariffs. So in theory any supplier could offer alternative prices for the same tariff.

However in reality none do, so these tariffs are not offered by alternative suppliers and as such you must remain with the supplier offering the tariff in the first place.

You could of course move to a different tariff, but this would mean that you probably require some alterations to your existing wiring in your home and a meter change. Although we have no direct involvement or experience in arranging a change like this we are advised that the typical cost to change is around £250 and therefore our advice would be to stay with the tariff.

The other issue is that the should the heating system have been designed to operate on this tariff - as would be the case with a new property on this tariff - then by moving to an alternative supplier/tariff you would not receive the same amount of electricity to the storage heaters and it may be that your property would be cold as the storage heater sizes would have been selected on the basis of the size of the property and the tariff they are to be operated from.

Hope that this helps.