EDF fixed Price Ending April 2014 - Switch Now?

Yorkie1

My guess is that you'd stay on the existing tariff but not receive the dual fuel discount?

Quentin

The issue with edf (and probably others) is the tariff is for dual fuel only. (You cannot just have, say, gas on the tariff, but must have both)

twig1_2

Wouldn't it be nice if they actually rewarded their existing customers by letting them switch to the 2017 at the end of the existing fix rather than making 25% out of them . Of course we will all be losing out on some of the benefit from the original switch at the peak time of our consumption by switching now as well which you need to take into account as we all paid over the odds at the beginning of the switch as well.

macman

The EDF fixed tariffs are dual fuel or electricity only.

Yorkie1

But if you are on the tariff, and there is a difference between the gas / electricity switch dates solely because of they way they deal with your single request to switch both, they can't unilaterally change your contract for the one which takes a little longer to switch.

When I switched to EDF blue from another supplier, the request for both fuels went in at the same time - but one fuel took about 5 weeks longer to transfer than the other. The first one was charged at the new tariff price, even though the other one hadn't yet caught up.

Can't remember which way round it was, but if the gas had transferred to Edf first, or electricity is later transferred away from edf first without it being anything the customer can do, then surely you can't then be penalised by the company's decision to put you in that position?

Tyler_Du

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4778683

chris-j

I just switched over from EDF Jun 2014 to EDF March 2015.
Fixes me for an extra winter and although the 6% discount and dual fuel discount does not apply, the unit rates in my area are 7.5% lower for Electricity and 9.3% lower for Gas, overall works out about £2 per month lower but freezes price for an extra winter and no exit fees.