MSE News: Scottish Power to hike energy prices

popshed

Just realised you used energyhelpline too. I'm in NW region, but I can't imagine it could possibly make that much difference to the figures. We only paid £600p.a. under Scottish Power at our old house 3 miles away.

macman

If you click on 'view your current tariff details' it will display everything you need including the unit prices.
I do not see how you are getting a figure of £1580 yearly spend inputting on BG Standard.

popshed

I've just tried it with a London postcode and I get similar results in the £1600 area.

This doesn't make sense. Trying it in a different browser not that that should make an iota of difference.

http://www.energyhelpline.com

postcode CWX XXX
Gas current supplier BG
Current tariff Standard
Current payment Pay on Bill
I use 2500kWH per year

Electric
Current Supplier NPower
Current Tariff Standard
Current payment Pay on Bill
I use 16000kWH per year

I prefer to pay by Monthly Direct Debit
All Tariffs
Sort by price
...
...
Cheapest
Scottish Power £1668

Cheapest Fixed
EDF £1807

huh?

macman

Err, you've got your gas and electric kWh figures transposed!
That would make quite a difference...

popshed

Doh! facepalm etc. What an idiot.
Cheers for spotting what was right in front of my face. I'm just going to go and hide in a darkened room. That, at least, won't require any electricity.

macman

Anyway, that's resolved that mystery. All the manual working out is really not necessary. The comp sites have done already done all the hard work for you.
If you input annual kWh figs (not DD amounts) then the prices should always be very close across the various sites.

elektra

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stevenmm01

Would like to know where theses 19% gas and 10 % electric figures come from, its much much more.
I'm currently on Scottish Powers online version 10 dual fuel tariff. Worse, I have just checked out my new unit costs on this plan from 1 August - BE WARNED


electric unit costs are increasing to

1st 900 units 22.433p (inc VAT) thats a +25.3% price hike
after 900 11.500 (inc VAT) +36.5%

Gas unit costs are increasing to

1st 2680 units 7.531p (inc VAT) thats +50.15%
after to 3.607 (inc VAT) +38.95%

After having sat down until 6am checking out new plans and with the thought that all energy firms will be hiking prices very soon, Scottish powers new rates, which may or may not increase again with current trends are just about the same as EDF's online fixed deal until 31 March 2014.

No need to guess where I've just changed over to.


Hope this helps you all and best hunting for new suppliers.

macman

Why 'sit down until 6am' when you can do the job in 2 minutes on a comp site though?

Charlie-Otter

Was on SP's Online Energy Saver 6, which at the time was a good deal. Realised I need to change and fix ASAP after Martin's Jeremy Vine show today, so set to work this afternoon once kids were napping. Am now on SP's June 2013 Capped NSC Tariff, with cancellation fees for my current tariff waived.

Did all the price comparisons...couldn't make head nor tail of it, but the general idea was SP has many other tariffs that could save me money as well as other companies. Then phoned SP and after 40 mins holding went through all the options, where it transpired that they had locked me into a new contract on this tariff by sending me a postcard last July telling me this...at the time we had just set fire to our kitchen, so it slipped under the radar! Thought about the Platinum Capped with the boiler care cover, but as we have a realtively new boiler, and a friendly boilerman, decided it probably wasn't worth the extra. So signed up to the June 2013 Capped NSC Tariff...with cancellation fees waived as staying with SP.

Our consumption last year was 16170kWh of gas and 2610kWh of electricity (slightly higher due to builders mending burnt house)...someone with a less frazzled brain tell me I have just saved myself money! I am a reasonably intelligent person, with an A-Level Maths, but it is just too complicated for me...too many tariffs, with extra bits and pieces, from so many different companies! In the end I figured capping surely means I have saved something, but how much I have no idea!!:huh:

Surely there needs to be some regulation of these different options, to help those who don't have the time/energy/resources/brainpower to plough through it all and figure out what might be best for them?