Help with electricity bill raise

nickinoodle_2

Dont know if anyone can help me!!!!! I dont know much about gas and electricity, and my bf even less.
My BF just got a letter through post 2day from British Gas saying that his monthly payments are going up from £15 a month to £51! (he pays a set amount each month with a card that he pays in post office, sorry dont know what it called!) because we are using more electricity than we used too - I dont see how??
Can anyone tell me if this seems a lot - know this isnt v good question, cos can vary, but for 2 people, who never leave lights on, TV on stand by etc, and dont seem to be doing anything different to normal?

Also can anyone recommened anyone cheaper??

Any help gratefull recieved

cattie

£15 a month on electricity for 2 people is very low. I'm very careful with electricity & don't use it unecessarily & my last bill was just under £80. That works out about £26.50 month.

I don't think you have to accept the monthly amount BG want you to start paying, you could suggest to them that you would prefer to pay say £30 month to see how that goes over the next quarter & if it still shows you need to increase it more then you will do so.

I believe BG are supposed to be one of the cheapest suppliers of electricity, so check out a couple of the comparrision sites before you think about changing suppliers.

nomoneytoday

The £15 a month was probably too low, and the real amount, say £30. Add in the recent price rises, say to £35 and then the £50 is to bring the account back into line

skintas_2

i pay £66 a month for gas and electric this is with powergen, i know the bill is £49 a month and the rest is debt i owe so that is £17 a month. that was all the way from may to now, hardly used it in the summer, nearly finished paying them what i owe. only just today have had the heating on this morning as it was cold and windy, hopefully not tonite.........

tripled

Yup, if there is an outstanding balance now on the account not only will they increase your payments to match it they will law back the debt on top. If you call em up they will usually cut the payment by up to 10%, but at the end of the day unfortunately you have to pay for what you've used.

nickinoodle_2

thanks for all ur help guys, makes more sense now

littleange

We're using £15 a month and there's 3 of us. Just changed from british gas to ebico, using about 5 units a day @ 10p a unit = 50p a day = £15 a month.