Non Domestic business rates

Mick_Land

Hi I've been living in my property since September 2015, I have my gas and electric with Ecotricity. Before I rented the property it was rented by the Red Cross so was down as a business property (I guess) when I changed provider to Ecotricity when I moved in I had difficulty because of this and had assumed it was fixed as it was eventually set up and transfered. My payments recently (unsure of historic without checking) has been £128. I recently tried to switch providers using Uswitch because I felt the price was too high. I've been knocked back because it's still listed as a non-domestic business property... I'm going to call and see what's going on, see what my rate should be and request a back payment of the over paid payments and perhaps 8% statutory as I've been without that money and stretch to a D&I payment as this should have been resolved back in September 2015.

I just wanted to check that I'm going along the right avenue and if there is anything I should be aware of going in or if it's a lost cause?

Thanks!

Robin9

You should be able to get it corrected to Domestic

Best of luck in getting in backdated.

Mick_Land

UPDATE: I've found an email from Ecotricity explaining that there was an objection on the transfer however it has "now been resolved" dated Oct 2015.

System

Thats good. It can be a long drawn out process switching from business to domestic supply. Now you are on a domestic tariff, think about switching from the high priced Ecotricity rates to someone more competitive, eg Robin Hood Energy who I recently switched to do my electric at 10.5 p/kwh and 19p a day standing charge. Compare that to the green energy tariff of Ecotricity