Are you on the correct tariff? Does your water authority have low user tariff?

Katiehound

If this is a repeat I apologise, but a quick trawl has only brought up very old threads.

Just this week discovered that if you have a meter with Anglian there is a low user- Solow- tariff. I was never told this when I finally got a meter last July.

Upshot today ,when a kind neighbour read my meter (seems to be half way down to Australia!!) I have been on the standard tariff wrongly. Nice lady on phone backdated it, £130 in credit and money going back to bank a/c!!.
My monthly payments have gone from £45 (unmetered) to £14.

To qualify with Anglian Water you need to be using less than 75 litres per year.

HappyMJ

Katiehound wrote: »

If this is a repeat I apologise, but a quick trawl has only brought up very old threads.

Just this week discovered that if you have a meter with Anglian there is a low user- Solow- tariff. I was never told this when I finally got a meter last July.

Upshot today ,when a kind neighbour read my meter (seems to be half way down to Australia!!) I have been on the standard tariff wrongly. Nice lady on phone backdated it, £130 in credit and money going back to bank a/c!!.
My monthly payments have gone from £45 (unmetered) to £14.

To qualify with Anglian Water you need to be using less than 75 litres per year.

The cost of water on Solow is £4.6436 per cubic metre. It's very high compared to the standard rate of £3.0273 per cubic metre plus £112 standing charges.

A quick calculation would mean that 69 cubic metres on Solow would cost £320.40 and on standard it would cost £320.90. Any higher than 70 cubic metres per year and standard is cheaper.

It's only really good for single people who would always use less than 70 cubic metres per year. A couple would normally use around 100 cubic metres per year and could reduce usage to 70 cubic metres with some effort but wouldn't be able to reduce much further to be able to save anything worthwhile.

Katiehound

Ah ha, I was never told the ins & outs- but as I am away a lot and therefore at that time using no water so it works just fine for me (and saves 30pence per day in standing charges.) About £300 saving over the rateable value charges- can't be bad.

Cardew

Katiehound wrote: »

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To qualify with Anglian Water you need to be using less than 75 litres per year.

I drink more water than that amount;)

Try cubic metres i.e. 75,000 litres

Katiehound

oops- I just knew the magic figure was 75!! and my meter shows 28.....yes, cubic metres

deanos

very good of them to back date it