RHT meters and inability to move to another provided

clarbrock

I found your website this morning and was thrilled to see that other peple had difficulty with RHT. Seemingly I am unable to move to another provider and I am unable to compare prices because no other provider supports RHT other than EON with whom I am currently bonded to! What is the history of RHT? does anyone know and why is it so untoucable?

Cardew

Welcome to the forum.

RHT = Restricted Hour Tariff


I believe its origins go back to the days of the White meter' tariff where only storage and immersion heaters were switched to cheap rate electricity; the remainder of house electrics stayed on the single rate 'peak' rate. Scotland in particular had a lot of variations of off-peak tariffs. There were also regional variations across UK before electricity was opeded up to competition.

These days for Economy 7 (and sometimes E10 where available) it is normal for the whole house electrics to switch to cheap rate.

I surmise that the cost of changing meters to accomodate RHT and the computer software for billing, mean that it is not viable for other companies.

From some of the prices I have seen quoted on MSE you would be better off considering a move to Economy 7 or a single rate tariff. At least then all companies would supply.

DVardysShadow

Cardew wrote: »

... I believe its origins go back to the days of the White meter' tariff where only storage and immersion heaters were switched to cheap rate electricity; the remainder of house electrics stayed on the single rate 'peak' rate.

All the white meters I came across had an associated timeswitch which turned on the separate wiring for the storage and immersion and also switched over the meter to register on the second set of dials.

advantix

AFAIK EON, NPOWER and SCOTTISH POWER are the only 3 major suppliers that support RHT meters. (Not sure about the smaller suppliers)