Gas Billing Help

DancerSupreme

I have looked into my gas prices on a comparison website.

I currently have RHT tarrif for my electricity so cannot do a comparison or dual fuel.

Anyway I use about £25 a year in gas. We only use it for our hob. There is a gas fire in the living room but it hardly gets used.

Anyway I did a comparison and it says that npower would save me £56 a month because they offer £52.50 direct debit discount and £5.00 online discount.

Does this mean I would get my gas for free and a little money back each year or would they not allow this to happen?

Thanks xx

Ultrasonic

gembaxter wrote: »

Anyway I use about £25 a year in gas. We only use it for our hob. There is a gas fire in the living room but it hardly gets used.

Just to be clear, do you really mean £25 a year (rather than per month)?

DancerSupreme

Yes - my last two bills have been £2.21 and £2.56. I have allowed extra to account for winter usage of the gas heater in the living room.

Everything else is electric. (I need to work out how to get that bill down but that is another post comin shortly!)

TIA Ultrasonic

jalexa

gembaxter wrote: »

I currently have RHT tarrif for my electricity so cannot do a comparison or dual fuel.

Answering a different question, or rather suggesting something else, if your particular form of heating suited E7, you could (at a modest cost) switch to E7 metering. Then AFAIAA, you would be able to benefit from dual fuel.

DancerSupreme

jalexa wrote: »

Answering a different question, or rather suggesting something else, if your particular form of heating suited E7, you could (at a modest cost) switch to E7 metering. Then AFAIAA, you would be able to benefit from dual fuel.

I rent so don't really want to be paying to change meters over. It might be something I could speak to my LL about though.

I have estimated that my electricity usage costs per month are going to be about £90-£100.

Ultrasonic

gembaxter wrote: »

Anyway I did a comparison and it says that npower would save me £56 a month because they offer £52.50 direct debit discount and £5.00 online discount.

Might that be £56 per year then, rather than per month? I think the £52.50 DD discount and £5 online discounts are both annual amounts.

Even so as you say they'd end up paying you on that basis . Sorry, I'm no expert and can't say for sure if they'd actually do this. In your position I'd have a close read of the terms and conditions that you can presumably find on the npower website to see if there was any sort of minimum usage term. If not, sign up . Make sure you get cashback for switching too.

(You could phone npower and ask of course. I'd be interested in whether other people thought that might be risky in terms of making them decide not to take you as a customer, or if they weren't allowed to do that.)

DancerSupreme

Sorry yes its £56 per year, all annualised figures.

I'll have a look through the T&C's. I wonder if I called eon and told them (if of course I would get paid to switch) they would discount me to keep me as a customer?

jalexa

gembaxter wrote: »

Does this mean I would get my gas for free and a little money back each year or would they not allow this to happen?

That's a really interesting question for which I don't have an answer, except when I tested the comparison using TheEnergyShop, indeed it did predict "gas for free" (a -£40 or so rebate):j

That said, I be very surprised if that isn't an unintended comparison error prevented by the tariff terms and conditions small print.