MSE News: SSE to raise energy prices by 8.2%, as first of the big six to hike

blackbearbosin

If the tales of possible black-outs due to lack of capacity are true, we wont have any bills to pay anyway!!!

What also galls me is that most of our energy companies are foreign owned so the majority of the profits they make, I guess, disappear into the EuroZone.

sofaman

Well, received the letter from SSE today re the price hike.

As both my electric & gas are PAYG, they've mentioned paying an annual standing charge of £100 per fuel. But I'm sure this was applied to the units prior to this price restructuring.

Would like to change fuel provider, but would cost me £100 to have both PAYG meters removed. :mad:

Bluebirdman_of_Alcathays

sofaman wrote: »

Well, received the letter from SSE today re the price hike.

As both my electric & gas are PAYG, they've mentioned paying an annual standing charge of £100 per fuel. But I'm sure this was applied to the units prior to this price restructuring.

Would like to change fuel provider, but would cost me £100 to have both PAYG meters removed. :mad:

Huh?

You can change to a different supplier if you have PPM's, this does not require a meter change.

Larfingboy

I am in a small flat with pre-pay meters for both gas and electricity and my supplier for both is SSE. I have just finished checking my increase and as I don't use a lot of either fuel it works out at 33% increase for my electricity and approximately that for the gas (cannot calculate gas accurately as there are two different rates each quarter and of course, there is no bill to show me how many units are used each quarter ... grrrrrr).
The reason is that they are separating out the standing charge, so now we poor clods on pre-pay have to fork out £100 per fuel as a standing charge instead of the transport and maintenance costs being included in the price per unit, as it has until now - a much fairer method of charging for such things.
33 stinking per cent increase if I use the same amount of gas and electricity in the next year, which is likely, as my usage the past 2 years has been similar.
33 per cent, you thieving whatnots.:(:mad::mad::mad:

sofaman

Larfingboy wrote: »

I am in a small flat with pre-pay meters for both gas and electricity and my supplier for both is SSE. I have just finished checking my increase and as I don't use a lot of either fuel it works out at 33% increase for my electricity and approximately that for the gas (cannot calculate gas accurately as there are two different rates each quarter and of course, there is no bill to show me how many units are used each quarter ... grrrrrr).
The reason is that they are separating out the standing charge, so now we poor clods on pre-pay have to fork out £100 per fuel as a standing charge instead of the transport and maintenance costs being included in the price per unit, as it has until now - a much fairer method of charging for such things.
33 stinking per cent increase if I use the same amount of gas and electricity in the next year, which is likely, as my usage the past 2 years has been similar.
33 per cent, you thieving whatnots.:(:mad::mad::mad:

Wished I had stayed away from pre-pays, and especially SSE. As I mentioned earlier, to swap to another provider, with a normal meter, would cost about £50 ea. So basically, those on low incomes are trapped with extortionate fuel prices to boot.

Dem_57

Hi
We have heard from EquiGas (Southern Electric - part of SSE) of their price rise from November. We just have Gas from them and pay cash quarterly.

They quoted the price increase including VAT to 5.57p per kWh. This is an increase from 4.81p and having just worked this out, means an increase of 15%!

Is it reasonable to demand an extreme increase like this presumably because we're not on dual fuel and direct debit? I understand you get cheaper rates if you opt for these two things, but not that you pay so much more if you don't.

They've hidden the increase in % by not telling us what it is. I do have a calculator though...just a bit slow on the uptake!

DragonQ

You don't save anything by paying by direct debit or having dual fuel with Ebico, that's kinda one of their selling points.

Nada666

Dem_57 wrote: »

Is it reasonable to demand an extreme increase like this presumably because we're not on dual fuel and direct debit? I understand you get cheaper rates if you opt for these two things, but not that you pay so much more if you don't.

They've hidden the increase in % by not telling us what it is. I do have a calculator though...just a bit slow on the uptake!

As DragonQ said, you appear to be missing the point - Ebico do not charge their prepayment or quarterly cash payers more than those who pay by direct debit. Nor do they give a discount for dual fuel. So you are not paying more.

The customers that other suppliers charge more to do not magically incur less costs for Ebico. They have to be paid for by someone. And that someone is no-one else other than their other customers.

If you do not pay by direct debit then you can pay 20 or 30% more than the cheapest available tariff. You can look on a comparison site and check what other prices are available to you, both for quarterly payment and for direct debit.