SSE: Swapping meters and/or suppliers

gterr

Hi there,


I'm a trustee of a charity and we're looking to reduce both our electricity consumption and also costs.


We're in a business contract with SSE that runs until August 2018, but we are planning some renovations (increasing insulation levels and swapping the old storage heaters for modern ones) and a possible move from the business equivalent of Total Heating Total Control to plain vanilla Economy 7. (I've been running some numbers and Eco 7 would be much cheaper given our pattern of consumption, and would mean we pay just one standing charge per supply instead of 2.)


SSE confirm that if the renovations involved removing BOTH the existing meters (THTC radio-controlled meter, and the peak meter) and replacing these with a single ECO 7 meter then our contract would necessarily have to end early (hooray!) and we would have to negotiate a new tariff.


We may wish to move away from SSE if we can get a better deal elsewhere. What's the best order of events for us? Get SSE to swap the meters, then switch to a new supplier later, or approach a new supplier and ask if they could handle the meter swapping?