Related supply: Help!

meghorton273

so I have been trying to switch our energy provider from edf to something cheaper. we are currently on a variable tariff which is so risky as over the winter we where being charged over £300 a month!!! all we did is turn the heating one, we have a small baby so we cant have it baking anyway :mad:

I have uses the cheap energy club but every time we go to switch we get rejected because we have a related supply, we don't have gas at the property we rent so will not be [aying o have a gas line installed. i also don't want to move to a fixed contract with edf unless i know for uses its the cheapest option for us.

do any of you know of good providers who i should be looking for? i don't want to keep wasting time applying for switches and getting rejected! :money:

thanks!:T

ValiantSon

From your post I take it that you only have electricity in your home. £300 per month seems incredibly high, but electricity is much more expensive than gas. Nonetheless, switching will almost certainly bring down your costs.

I'm not sure what you mean by a "related supply". Have you been trying to switch to dual fuel tariffs by any chance? You can only do this if you have both electricity and gas supplied to your home. If you only have electricity then you need to switch to a single fuel electricity tariff. There are plenty of them available. If you haven't registered for the MSE Cheap Energy Club then I suggest doing so https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/cheapenergyclub. Put your annual consumption in in kWh - you can find this on your bills (don't use £s as it won't give you a very accurate comparison) and in the options on the left select "Electricity" - it is set to "Dual Fuel" as a default.

Assuming that your account with your current supplier is not in debit then there is no reason why your switch should not go through. If you are in debt to your current supplier then pay it off now, so that they cannot object to you switching (you will have to pay any debt off when you switch anyway).

Shavuot

meghorton273 wrote: »

so I have been trying to switch our energy provider from edf to something cheaper. we are currently on a variable tariff which is so risky as over the winter we where being charged over £300 a month!!! all we did is turn the heating one, we have a small baby so we cant have it baking anyway :mad:

I have uses the cheap energy club but every time we go to switch we get rejected because we have a related supply, we don't have gas at the property we rent so will not be [aying o have a gas line installed. i also don't want to move to a fixed contract with edf unless i know for uses its the cheapest option for us.

do any of you know of good providers who i should be looking for? i don't want to keep wasting time applying for switches and getting rejected! :money:

thanks!:T

I'm not sure how you can be using the Cheap Energy Club, when you are on an EDF legacy tariff.

The Cheap Energy Club does not cater for those on legacy tariffs, as no one else other than the legacy supplier is obligated to support it.

Speak with your supplier's specialist legacy metering team who will advsie you on further if you wish to change your metering to one that is universally accepted.

Unfortunately I see you immediately disappeared after posting your very first post, so no idea if this will assist you.

I would like to think it would assist others, but this matter is already discussed in multiple threads on this site already, so probably not.

D_M_E

It sounds like you may have 2 meters and are trying to switch one of them, which you cannot do.

You need to find a supplier which supports the metering situation which you have and I don't think many do - try EoN, EDF, Scottish Power or SSE - I think one of these may support your meters, but you need details of both meters.

You should also confirm with your LL what sort of supply you have and whether it does have 2 meters or is a single dual rate E7 meter.

spiro

It could till be a single meter but you have 2 MPANs (meter points), they have to switch as a pair and depending on the wiring of the house/heating etc you are unlikely to be able to change that. You need to find a supplier that supports that and the only way I know to do that is call them as they can check your setup online.