Meter problems with Scottish Power

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dogshome wrote: »

The gas boiler kicking in when you want heating or hot water says you have a fully functional GAS system of heating and hot water.

As explained in post #5, you are seriously paying over the odds for your Elec. by haveing an ECO7 meter, as an urgent matter contact your supplier, ( best in writeing), and advise them you have GAS Central Heating & Hot Water and ask them if they want to change the meter, or bill your Elec as though you have a 'Standard' meter

A dedicated money saver can make e7 pay , especially when the analogue timerswitch is way out of time with the cheap 7 hours falling in a nice time in the evening. Its rare to see one of these old switches at the correct time. 12 hours out isnt uncommon. This is assuming that the occupier is aware of the faulty timerswitch. "which " magazine highlighted this fault a few months ago which is why Scottish Power now ask us to check them
In general tho , as Dogshome says, its better to change to single tariff if you have gas central heating. I think there is a charge of approx £70 for a change of meter

Pincher

Some people have electric cars now,
so it's not as crazy as you think to have gas and E7.

GingerBob_3

sacsquacco wrote: »

I think there is a charge of approx £70 for a change of meter

Maybe though, if your meter "stopped working", you know, suddenly, for no apparent reason. Maybe then you could say, BTW when you put in a new meter put in a non E7 one.

GingerBob_3

Anyway, come to think of it, why do you need a new meter to move from E7 to a normal tarriff? An E7 meter will register usage for any tarriff.

Nada666

GingerBob wrote: »

Anyway, come to think of it, why do you need a new meter to move from E7 to a normal tarriff? An E7 meter will register usage for any tarriff.

It would ruin the E7 model for those for whom it is worthwhile. That is everyone would chop and change a couple of times a year as optimal and winter usage would not be matched by unheated usage. The tariffs would no longer be sustainable.

GingerBob_3

Nada666 wrote: »

It would ruin the E7 model for those for whom it is worthwhile. That is everyone would chop and change a couple of times a year as optimal and winter usage would not be matched by unheated usage. The tariffs would no longer be sustainable.

Not sure if that's addressing what I was on about. Another poster mentioned about the cost of meter replacement when moving from E7 to another tariff. However, I got to thinking that an E7 meter will handle a normal tariff, so there's no need for the meter change (and £70 fee). Maybe the supplier is using the meter change ruse to dissuade people from changing tariffs?

sobie

We phoned scottish power back up last night after reading this thread.

Our previous supplier Eon had transposed our readings. When we moved to Scottish Power, we swapped them back the right way. It then turned out our day readings are far higher than our night (we have gas central heating/ water) so we've decided that econ7 isn't right for us.

With our broken meter, it now seems the right time to change the meter.