EDF- Fix for 2012 ending - what now?

Consumerist

jalexa wrote: »

. . . The regulatory gap is that at the moment of applying for the switch the gaining supplier does not have previous actual consumption to form the basis of reasonable projected consumption. . .

You seem to know more about this than I do but, according to the SLCs :-

Provision of Customer Information

22.9 Where a Domestic Customer requests the licensee to pass on his Historic Consumption Data and/or Meter Point Reference Number either to the Domestic Customer or to another Gas Supplier or to any other person, the licensee shall comply with that request free of charge as soon as reasonably practicable.

22.10 For the purposes of this condition:
“Historic Consumption Data” means:
(a) except where a Domestic Customer has held his Domestic Supply Contract for less than 12 months, the quantity of gas supplied to the Domestic Customer's Domestic Premises during the previous 12 months; or
(b) where the Domestic Customer has held his Domestic Contract for less than 12 months, the quantity of gas supplied to the Domestic Customer's Domestic Premises during the duration of the Domestic Contract.

So, if a switching customer requests that consumption data is passed to the receiving supplier, it is not clear to me how the receiving supplier can say it doesn't have that data.

Consumerist

snowcat53 wrote: »

And yes I could stick with the edf devil i know - the extra cost would be 140 in the first year, after that I might win out , who knows.

£140 seems quite a lot to throw away.

You could take the pragmatic view that, in the end, you'll only pay for what you use.

Don't forget that Ovo pays 3% pa interest on credit balances; that's equivalent to 3.75% gross for basic-rate tax-payers. Unless your finances are extremely tight the credit balance will earn you a better rate than you can currently get for savings.

I have no particular axe to grind either for or against Ovo but you could do worse, in my view.

jalexa

Consumerist wrote: »

So, if a switching customer requests that consumption data is passed to the receiving supplier, it is not clear to me how the receiving supplier can say it doesn't have that data.

That is an interesting clause. You, me, backfoot and others could certainly use the clause however the clause (in isolation) is not part of the switching mechanism.

I don't disagree that information so passed might influence the operation of the DD recalculation SLCs, but only if the passed historical information was registered and that is not a "requirement" of SLC 22.9/10.

I've invited comment about whether my assertion that there is no "switching" mechanism to always pass "historical information" was correct and also my comments about the industry measurement AQ. Regrettably so far nothing. A pity as that is only "in good faith" not known fact.

Consumerist

Thanks Jalexa for getting back on that. I'd be interested to hear about any developments.

Personally, I think I would be inclined to rely on the " . . . (or which reasonably ought to be available) to the licensee . . " part of SLC 27.15 if I was forced to complain about the DD. But that's just me.

Perhaps we could do with some sort of test case on this one.