Electricity Supply For Very Small Unit User (Rural Church)

teslacoils

Hiya,

My local church uses very, very little electricity but we pay a fortune for it. However, it doesnt seem to be an easy task to find a supplier who will touch it with a barge pole. I wasnt expecting miracles, but even £20 would be worth it!

Currently:

Standing charge = 44.59p per day
Annual usage c 100 units @ 16.89p per unit

We pay quarterly by cheque. Current supplier is nPower.

Anyone moved to a supplier who doesnt balk at these kind of small accounts?

Many thanks,

Tim.

KimYeovil

Ebico charge less than 14p per unit and no standing charge. If you useage is only 100 kWh (or even ten times that) the choice is a no-brainer.

See https://www.ebico.org.uk/electric-prices

A saving of more than £160 per year.

neil9313

Try Ebico, SSE run it, no standing charge and around 13.44 per unit inc vat

You won't get cheaper and it does not matter how you pay. I take it the account is on credit and not a key meter?

you can still get a paper bill i believe at no charge but still view it on line. SSE web site is well laid out

KimYeovil

Note, however, that if you do regularly have occasional coffee mornings (iyswim) or do use large peaks of electricity now and again choosing an alternative standard supplier with a no-daily-standing-charge tariff could be cheaper than Ebico.

MillicentBystander

My answer would all hinge on what your consumption is and whether you could pay by direct debit. Ebico's elctricity prices (especially for people who pay by DD) are rather high. All depends on circumstances, though...

neil9313

MillicentBystander wrote: »

My answer would all hinge on what your consumption is and whether you could pay by direct debit. Ebico's elctricity prices (especially for people who pay by DD) are rather high. All depends on circumstances, though...

Complete rubbish

MillicentBystander

neil9313 wrote: »

Complete rubbish

Really?? Care to explain why?

Edit: I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you thought I meant for people who pay Ebico by DD when what I meant was people who normally pay by DD with any supplier. Hope I'm right (for your sake).

teslacoils

Usage is sub 100 units a year. Roughly equal each quarter, with obvious spikes, if you can have a spike when you use so little, on service days of which we have maybe 7 a year.

We paid the fat end of £200 this year which represents around 10% of total church income!

Happy to pay by DD and online statement would be fine.

I'll try ebico and see how that would work - thanks for the links btw - and will let you know how it gos. I have also been told of a local purchasing group which may be some use otherwise.

Thanks for the help so far.

Tim.

MillicentBystander

teslacoils wrote: »

Usage is sub 100 units a year. Roughly equal each quarter, with obvious spikes, if you can have a spike when you use so little, on service days of which we have maybe 7 a year.

We paid the fat end of £200 this year which represents around 10% of total church income!

Happy to pay by DD and online statement would be fine.

I'll try ebico and see how that would work - thanks for the links btw - and will let you know how it gos. I have also been told of a local purchasing group which may be some use otherwise.

Thanks for the help so far.

Tim.

Loathe as I am to point you in their direction but your very low consumption and willingness to pay by DD makes you a prime candidate for 'fleecing' npower. Granted, you are effectively 'tied' to them for 12 months to get any benefit but it's all to do with their stupid annual discount payable annually in arrears (in your case it would be £47.25 on Go Save tariff and leave you with them paying you to have your electric with them!). Sorry, these figs are based on Yorkshire area, try energyhelpine for your own area.

Gotta go out now so haven't fully researched this but worth a look?

teslacoils

Go Save is only allowed for domestic customers. I will check tomorrow, but I have a bad feeling that we may be forced down the business tarrif route.

Infact, racking my brain, I am sure we will be considered a business.

Even so, I am sure I can at least slash the standing charge in two.

spiro

You elec status in terms of being a business or domestic customer depnds on what most of the useage is for. As places of worship tend to be classified as charities (I beleive) I think you should get away with being domestic.