Moving house energy club!

jibbyboo

Dear MSE,

Love the idea of Cheap Energy Club, but please provide instructions on how to use if moving home. It has been a number of years since I have lived in a place solely on my own, therefore I am also a little clueless with regard to my personal energy consumption.

Previous house occupier was on Utility Warehouse, which I don't want to use (unless genuinely the very cheapest I can get) and I think this would prevent me from finding accurate gas and electricity use.

Any help gratefully received!

Wywth

jibbyboo wrote: »

Dear MSE,

Love the idea of Cheap Energy Club, but please provide instructions on how to use if moving home. It has been a number of years since I have lived in a place solely on my own, therefore I am also a little clueless with regard to my personal energy consumption.

Previous house occupier was on Utility Warehouse, which I don't want to use (unless genuinely the very cheapest I can get) and I think this would prevent me from finding accurate gas and electricity use.

Any help gratefully received!

The quality of the output from any comparison site will only be as good as the quality of the data you input.

To get accurate output data, you need to input an accurate assumption of your annual consumption in kWh.

However, other options are made available (e.g. based on monthly payments or even a simple low/medium/high user assumption)

jibbyboo

I'll look into it then

Fire_Fox

Loads of threads on this, it's a how long is a piece of string type question. The best you can do is choose what appears to be the cheapest tariff from the incumbent supplier on the day you move on (don't et them put you on the pricey standard tariff), then read your meters regularly and use those figures for comparison.

Don't assume you are a low user because you live alone, it totally depends on your habits and the insulation of the property.