Cheap Energy Club advice

SimpleSeeker

Hi, The CEC comparison takes part of the year at my current suppliers standard rate after my current plan expires. Of course I am not going to let that happen. (I will choose a cheap plan when mine expires). This makes the comparison skewed towards switching and is unfair to the current supplier.
Am I right about this or am I missing something? Can anybody cast light? Thanks for reading.

brewerdave

Nope -its been discussed extensively in the past -look at the next thread.

JJ_Egan

SimpleSeeker wrote: »

Hi, The CEC comparison takes part of the year at my current suppliers standard rate after my current plan expires. Of course I am not going to let that happen. (I will choose a cheap plan when mine expires). This makes the comparison skewed towards switching and is unfair to the current supplier.
Am I right about this or am I missing something? Can anybody cast light? Thanks for reading.

You put your details in you read the tariff for the cheapest supplier and compare with your current tariff .
You may not let it happen that you go on a standard tariff but many will and Energy Club i suppose looks at standard as a baseline . But it is a flaw for those that do not understand the basics of the prices .

SimpleSeeker

Thanks to both for the useful replies. This seems like a major "flaw" that serves no one apart from the switching sites, including MSE. People comparing towards the end of their deal (when many do) will be greatly mislead as to the savings achievable.

MSE_Dan_L

We do mention this on the Big Winter Switch Event Page

Following changes introduced by Ofgem, the energy regulator, our calculations have to factor in the tariff costs for the remainder of the fixed tariff, as well as the standard tariff which energy suppliers move its customers onto when the fix ends.

This means if you have two months of your fixed rate tariff remaining, your calculation is based on two months at the fixed tariff rate, and then ten months at the standard tariff rate.At the time that this ruling was introduced we raised our concerns and have continued to pass on feedback from our users to Ofgem. Hopefully this will lead to a review of how 12 month personal projections should be shown.

We're also working on providing details of your fixed cost and go to costs separately on the results page, as we think it's a much clearer this way of displaying your comparison. If you're happy with your current tariff, you might prefer to wait for our 'Your Fixed Deal is Ending' alert, which we send to our users a few weeks before a fixed tariff expires.In the meantime, you can still compare your annual/monthly costs from your bill against the tariff costs of the quoted tariffs on your results page.