New best dual fuel for London?

londoner01

Having just missed on edf Blue by a matter of days, I'm looking for new shores. I'm moving into a new house with gas heating and hobs and oven, and electricity for other appliances. We'll be 3/4 professionals, two couples (so the flat is actually quite small & doesn't require as much heating as a three-bedroom would).

We're deciding which provider to go with and I have read somewhere (probably here) that Scottish Power had a good price fix tariff which for London worked out just as good as edf Blue. Can anyone tell me how they have found Scottish Power? I've never dealt with them before.

Sorry, new to this because we've been on a landlord-controlled tariff for years now and I don't have any good idea of prices anymore! So I basically no longer no what a good price is Have Londoners found the Scottish Power deal a good one?

Thanks

Wywth

londoner01 wrote: »

Having just missed on edf Blue by a matter of days, I'm looking for new shores. I'm moving into a new house with gas heating and hobs and oven, and electricity for other appliances. We'll be 3/4 professionals, two couples (so the flat is actually quite small & doesn't require as much heating as a three-bedroom would).

We're deciding which provider to go with and I have read somewhere (probably here) that Scottish Power had a good price fix tariff which for London worked out just as good as edf Blue. Can anyone tell me how they have found Scottish Power? I've never dealt with them before.

Sorry, new to this because we've been on a landlord-controlled tariff for years now and I don't have any good idea of prices anymore! So I basically no longer no what a good price is Have Londoners found the Scottish Power deal a good one?

Thanks

A comparison site will tell you the best current deal available for you.

macman

No one can tell you what is 'best', even knowing your region, because we don't know your kWh consumption. As above, two minutes on a comp site with your estimated figures will reveal all.
Bear in mind that you will be in a deemed contract with the existing supplier, you can't commence a switch until you have first registered with them and submitted opening readings-do this the day you occupy. Then switch if you wish via a cashback site.

londoner01

Thanks for clarifying that macman! That's exactly what I was finding difficult as I don't really have any information about current consumption or even tariff as I only pay it via a coined meter, and most comparison websites ask me for my current tariff.

Even trying to estimate consumption is difficult because we're moving from being just me and my partner to having a new flatmate, and will be joined by a fourth person mid-tenancy. Hard to know their habits!

United Utilities had a very easy and rather comprehensive website to calculate your usage but unfortunately all the breakdown numbers weren't visible as the layout didn't work in my browser!

Sounds like we're pretty close to the average household but I haven't been able to properly assess the breakdown between electricity and gas.

Thanks for your help anyway.

macman

For a 3 b/r house with gas CH and DHW use annual figures of 16,500kWh for gas and 3,300kWH for electricity. That'll be enough to get you started.

Wywth

londoner01 wrote: »

Thanks for clarifying that macman! That's exactly what I was finding difficult as I don't really have any information about current consumption or even tariff as I only pay it via a coined meter, and most comparison websites ask me for my current tariff.

Even trying to estimate consumption is difficult because we're moving from being just me and my partner to having a new flatmate, and will be joined by a fourth person mid-tenancy. Hard to know their habits!

United Utilities had a very easy and rather comprehensive website to calculate your usage but unfortunately all the breakdown numbers weren't visible as the layout didn't work in my browser!

Sounds like we're pretty close to the average household but I haven't been able to properly assess the breakdown between electricity and gas.

Thanks for your help anyway.

A coined meter? I'm not sure any supplier uses these any more do they? Are you supplied by a supplier, (i.e. who empties the meter?) or is this meter one that belongs to the Landlord who is responsible for paying the supplier for energy consumed in his property?

If you buy energy from the Landlord, then you can't change supplier.

If you do have an agreement direct with a supplier via a pre-payment meter, then contact the supplier who will be able to inform you of your annual usage figures and you can put these into a comparison site - don't forget to select that you pay by pre-payment meter.

You didn't just miss out on EDF Blue+ as this was not a tariff available to pre-payment meter customers.

londoner01

Wywth wrote: »

A coined meter? I'm not sure any supplier uses these any more do they? Are you supplied by a supplier, (i.e. who empties the meter?) or is this meter one that belongs to the Landlord who is responsible for paying the supplier for energy consumed in his property?

If you buy energy from the Landlord, then you can't change supplier.

If you do have an agreement direct with a supplier via a pre-payment meter, then contact the supplier who will be able to inform you of your annual usage figures and you can put these into a comparison site - don't forget to select that you pay by pre-payment meter.

You didn't just miss out on EDF Blue+ as this was not a tariff available to pre-payment meter customers.

We currently buy energy from the landlord, but we're about to move to a whole new place entirely. In setting up the new place's bills, we narrowly missed out on Blue+, but the reason why I mentioned the coined metre is to explain why I have no terms of comparison, which is what they base most of the cost projections on when you are "switching".

Anyway, I have gone with ScottishPower, £48 a month based on the previous tenant's usage. Hope it all goes well, thanks for your help!