npower standiing charges

Wywth

oldandgrumpy wrote: »

I don,t know if I have missed a thread, but npower customers may be interested that their tarifs have changed as of 1st May, due to government interference/ intervention on multiple incomrehensible tarifs. ALL tarifs carry a daily charge now, the gas standing charge is 44p per day!!!!.... that is 12kwh per day you pay, before switching the gas on! All my efforts to reduce our bills went out of the window on the 1st May. Needless to say, I switched. But how long will it be before all the companies adopt the npower cynical solution to government pressure?

All suppliers are having to withdraw their 2 tier charging tariffs.

Suppliers are being asked to charge on the basis of a daily standing charge (which can vary by tariff, and even the day of the week! ... and be as low as 0p per day) and a single unit charge.

If you want the surety of prices not moving for a while, choose a fixed price tariff.

Other than that, getting the cheapest deal for you is the goal, for which you still need to consult a comparison site rather than getting hung up about how that cost is made up.

oldandgrumpy

Wywth wrote: »

All suppliers are having to withdraw their 2 tier charging tariffs.

Suppliers are being asked to charge on the basis of a daily standing charge (which can vary by tariff, and even the day of the week! ... and be as low as 0p per day) and a single unit charge.

If you want the surety of prices not moving for a while, choose a fixed price tariff.

Other than that, getting the cheapest deal for you is the goal, for which you still need to consult a comparison site rather than getting hung up about how that cost is made up.

I have switched to Scottishpower fixed to August 2014 offer as there are no daily charges. However, para 8 of the terms and conditions state that the tariff is only guaranteed if there is no government interference. Well, npower, in the letter quoted earlier, blame the changes and price hike on government intervention! I have queried with Scottishpower as to wether or not they will still guarantee the tariff in light of the governments policy. I am awaiting their considered reply!

joncombe

oldandgrumpy wrote: »

I have switched to Scottishpower fixed to August 2014 offer as there are no daily charges. However, para 8 of the terms and conditions state that the tariff is only guaranteed if there is no government interference. Well, npower, in the letter quoted earlier, blame the changes and price hike on government intervention! I have queried with Scottishpower as to wether or not they will still guarantee the tariff in light of the governments policy. I am awaiting their considered reply!

Yes I would be interested to see the reply since I have also switched to Scottish Power. The fact that standing charges vary so much between suppliers in the same region show they are clearly not being used to recover the "fixed costs" as suppliers claim because if the fixed costs were indeed fixed they'd be about the same for each supplier.

Sooze4773

I also switched to Scottish Power from nPower because of the daily standing charge. The only gas I use is a gas hob, meaning under the new charges I would pay approximately what I used to pay per month for just one day. Scottish Power were unable or unwilling to inform me when they might switch to the daily standing charge system, but I'm sure they will as it enables them to legally rip off the customer!

zerog

DragonQ wrote: »

Fair enough. The only discount I get right now is £10 per year for doing online billing with Scottish Power.

Weird example though, does anyone in this country have an annual dual fuel bill of £300? :rotfl:

Well my dual fuel bill for this year will be £150. Wife and I live in 1 bed flat in London.

£150 does NOT include £106 cashback from topcashback, £105 DD discount, £50 compensation for repeated failure to issue bills, and £10 credit for the seasonal weighting**

If they weren't introducting the 47p daily charge I might even stay with npower...

** can't be bothered to explain fully, but selective submission of accurate meter readings seems to have confused their computer system

DragonQ

So you presumably live without a TV, radio, fridge, freezer, oven, kettle, microwave and heating?

zerog

DragonQ wrote: »

So you presumably live without a TV, radio, fridge, freezer, oven, kettle, microwave and heating?

We don't have a TV. The rest have used 1700kWh electricity in the past 12 months. 1300kWh gas has been used for the shower and the hob.

Believe it or not, the biggest energy user is my computer, as when I went away on my own for 1 month my wife's consumption that month was much lower.

DragonQ

I'm on excellent tariffs but that usage would still cost me £300 per year. No other tariffs on offer right now are cheaper. So how is yours £150, do you work for an energy company or something?

Nada666

1300 kWh of gas and 1700 kWh of electricity do not cost £150. You can not even buy tier 2 electricity alone for that. You are misreporting something.

zerog

I already explained it in my post. Maybe I shouldn't have said bill, but cost to me.