Can I pay a years worth of energy upfront ? ?

nashly

I know they cant exactly predict what I am going to use but I would rather pay it up front than have DD every month, can I do this ?

DragonQ

Doubt it. Would be a nice option though since it'd surely involve some kind of discount.

Quentin

You can make lump sum payments into an edf account online using your debit or credit card

Nada666

You can pay upfront if you like - but you will be billed quarter by quarter with any future price rises taken into account, not charged today's prices.

Pincher

If they can over-estimate and increase your DD so that a credit builds up, you would have thought you can. But you can never tell what these computers will do. If you have no legs, so posting a cheque is difficult, you can bet that it will insist on sending you a cheque.

nashly

Nada666 wrote: »

You can pay upfront if you like - but you will be billed quarter by quarter with any future price rises taken into account, not charged today's prices.

I am fixing until Jan 2018 so the only rises might be in usage

Voyager2002

You can read your meter and give them a reading. Perhaps your reading will show that you have used an awful lot of energy over the summer, so you will get a big bill now (paying for lots of energy at the old price).

welshbookworm

Several years ago my meter was estimated by almost double the reading. As it was just before a large increase, I paid it and had the joy of having virtually no bill for the next three months. Apart from dealing with a very bewildered meter reader I had no problems.

Yolina

welshbookworm wrote: »

Several years ago my meter was estimated by almost double the reading. As it was just before a large increase, I paid it and had the joy of having virtually no bill for the next three months. Apart from dealing with a very bewildered meter reader I had no problems.

I used to let them estimate (they always over did it for winter) and pay that promptly when the then quarterly bill came in - as it was a tariff with 2-tiers unit prices it was obviously to my advantage as I would give them a reading in April or thereabouts and wouldn't then have to pay anything for months (when it would all be at the more expensive tier price)

brewerdave

The approach of the last two posters doesn't always work.......they will sometimes go back to recalculate previous bills on the basis of erroneous estimated meter readings -which can result in an unpleasant surprise!

Yolina

They never did but then in my case that was maybe 10 years ago when they probably just couldn't be bothered really.
It's not like I gave them wrong readings or anything - just let them estimate and gave a customer read once a year (just at a "convenient" time for me ).