Discounted Standing Charge

Jonty55

Hiya
On my energy bill it reads

Standard energy 166 kWh £20.96
Discounted Standing Charge 44 days £6.89

Can somebody explain the discounted standing charge and why it's applied along with the energy use?

Thank you

JJ_Egan

Energy .126 per kwh
Standing charge .1566 per day .

Standing charge is what you pay per day for the infrastructure pipes meters etc .Kwh is for the actual usage .
Some tariffs have no standing charge but its built in to the kwh price .

Nada666

Thanks, J J, but I suspect it is the adjective not the compound noun that the OP wanted explained!

Richie-from-the-Boro

Its just a method of paying a discount. For example if you get both gas & electricity from the same company each with a £50 per annum discount for paying via direct debit. You may see that discount applied as a £100 per annum divided by 365 days = 27p per day. What discount the O/P gets with a value of 15p per day / or / £54.75 per annum I've no idea.

Jonty55

I was looking for an answer to everything Compound noun, adjectives, the lot xD And I got it
Thanks peeps.

flyingjock1

The OP seems to be with SSE.

Their annual standing charge per fuel is £100 per year/365 days expressed as 27.10p per day before tax on the bill. The 15.66p is the daily standing charge shown after the £40 annual dd discount is applied to the account (applied/365days about 10p a day off the 27.10p give or take rounding up)

Tom