MSE News: EDF hits millions with price rises

markharding557

penrhyn wrote: »

Beats me why people by EDF electricity, as when I went to France they only had 110volts and my travel kettle took ages to boil.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

moonrakerz

Davef68 wrote: »

Standing charge is a relic from the past come back

Why is it a relic ? It is no different to having a two tier charging system.
In fact the two tier system is totally illogical, and has been shamelessly (ab ?) used by the energy companies in their price hiking/sleight of hand trickery. In an era when we should be saving energy, the two tier system actually makes energy cheaper the more you use - bizarre !

nodiscount

Why has this been posted again? Made me panic as I thought this was in addition to the earlier rise!

t0rt0ise

dreamdreamer wrote: »

Worked out our hike at 7.5%.... still cheaper than British Gas was after the hike (we switched in November), and got the whole winter at EDF's cheaper rate so not too fussed. We'll be switching the heating off in a few weeks anyway! Plus the £180 cashback we got to join EDF more than offsets the hike (£59.40 a year at our current usage). Still glad we moved!

Which tariff are you on? I moved to EDF in November too and don't have a price rise.

KimYeovil

moonrakerz wrote: »

Why is it a relic ? It is no different to having a two tier charging system.

I agree (approximately) with that first paragraph but the following is utter nonsense

moonrakerz wrote: »

In fact the two tier system is totally illogical, and has been shamelessly (ab ?) used by the energy companies in their price hiking/sleight of hand trickery. In an era when we should be saving energy, the two tier system actually makes energy cheaper the more you use - bizarre !

A daily standing charge can be (and IS) manipulated in exactly the same way. Indeed where a tariff is available in both flavours the effective standing charges are almost invariably the same.

And it is not correct to say that two tier system makes energy more expensive the less you use when compared to a fixed daily standing charge. There is nothing illogical about it.