New Home Owners - Where do we start with Utility bills?

bri160356

macman wrote: »

Dual rate tariff, generally used in homes with night storage heaters and an immersion heater. Night rate is cheap but the day rate is expensive. You'd require a meter change.
As I've already said, you can run all these options through your comp site to compare E7 to single rate etc.
YE are very new, little feedback on them.

I've just signed up with Yorkshire Energy on their ‘Green Seahorse’ 12-months fixed tariff with zero exit fees.

I rang them for a little bit more info; I was on hold for about 5-mins then got an automated ‘we’ll ring you back’ message',…which they did within 60 seconds.

I Spoke to a very pleasant and knowledgeable lady who answered all my queries. She reckons the switchover will take 21 days.

Their website looks pretty good and the online sign-up process is painless;…they’ve only been in existence for 4-months so signing up is something of a leap of faith, but what the hell,..I like to live dangerously.

srisport

bri160356 wrote: »

I've just signed up with Yorkshire Energy on their !!!8216;Green Seahorse!!!8217; 12-months fixed tariff with zero exit fees.

I rang them for a little bit more info; I was on hold for about 5-mins then got an automated !!!8216;we!!!8217;ll ring you back!!!8217; message',!!!8230;which they did within 60 seconds.

I Spoke to a very pleasant and knowledgeable lady who answered all my queries. She reckons the switchover will take 21 days.

Their website looks pretty good and the online sign-up process is painless;!!!8230;they!!!8217;ve only been in existence for 4-months so signing up is something of a leap of faith, but what the hell,..I like to live dangerously.

Thank you for your feedback, I think this is also the same tariff that is coming up as the cheapest option for us. Glad to hear that the switch is going smoothly for you, may be worth posting on the feedback thread specifically set up for Yorkshire Energy

macman wrote: »

Dual rate tariff, generally used in homes with night storage heaters and an immersion heater. Night rate is cheap but the day rate is expensive. You'd require a meter change.
As I've already said, you can run all these options through your comp site to compare E7 to single rate etc.
YE are very new, little feedback on them.

Yeah I got that assumption when I found the feedback thread specifically for Yorkshire Energy only to find a hand full of posts on it.

steveouk wrote: »

Its not really worth all the hassle of switching to economy 7 this is for flats and other properties with night storage heaters and is fine if your property is all electric. As this has not been mentioned before i would assume you have a gas boiler and central heating in which case Economy 7 will not be of use to you. As said previously a switch to E7 involves a meter change and a responsible supplier would check to make sure it is appropriate when booking this as it should not be done if you have gas central heating.

Yes that is correct, we have central heating, Gas oven and a Gas fire (although the gas fire wont be used as there's a radiator in the same room).


As always thank you for everyone's contribution. I will be ringing EDF this week to set up our account.

Do I need to inform them of the switch or is that the responsibility of our new energy provider to notify EDF and complete the switch? ( I assume its similar to how bank account switches work?)

Kind Regards

bri160356

OP,

when you appoint your new supplier they will contact EDF on your behalf. You do not need to contact EDF to inform them of the switchover.

Get it sorted quickly though,... prices are on the up! :eek:

P.S. I’d already updated the sparsely populated Yorkshire Energy feedback thread.

srisport

bri160356 wrote: »

OP,

when you appoint your new supplier they will contact EDF on your behalf. You do not need to contact EDF to inform them of the switchover.

Get it sorted quickly though,... prices are on the up! :eek:

P.S. I!!!8217;d already updated the sparsely populated Yorkshire Energy feedback thread.

Well that's me set up with EDF Energy now, £119/Month was there cheapest fix rate tariff with £0 Exit fee, So now the mad rush to find a cheaper alternative :rotfl::rotfl:

Regards.

Robin9

srisport wrote: »

Well that's me set up with EDF Energy now, £119/Month was there cheapest fix rate tariff with £0 Exit fee, So now the mad rush to find a cheaper alternative :rotfl::rotfl:

Regards.

Now get into the habit of reading your meter at least monthly and give these readings to your supplier. Keep your own records.

Read and understand your online bills - make sure they have used your readings.

bri160356

srisport wrote: »

Well that's me set up with EDF Energy now, £119/Month was there cheapest fix rate tariff with £0 Exit fee, So now the mad rush to find a cheaper alternative :rotfl::rotfl:

Regards.

Insist that EDF charge you your new fixed tariff rate forthwith!...when my son moved into his new home he immediately asked to be moved to a cheaper EDF tariff but it still took them about 13 days to complete the swap from their ‘Standard’ tariff.

When he got his first EDF bill and saw he’d been charged 13 days at ‘Standard’ rates he had a row with them and they agreed, as a goodwill gesture and even though it was against company policy, to refund him £5;…a whole fiver!...we thought the party would never end. :beer:

That was July’17,..perhaps EDF have softened their stance in recent times.

Apart from that EDF handled his account extremely proficiently to be fair. However, after 12 months with EDF he’s just completed a move to Avro Energy last week.

He was on EDF’s very competitive ‘Online Saver August 18’ tariff . Unfortunately, that tariff terminates very shortly and he found EDF’s renewal quotes way too expensive.

If I plug my own annual usage figures (E=5234KWh, G=15700KWh) into a comparison site then EDF’s Blue+Price Protection Sep19 tariff (13 months fixed, no fees) is certainly what I would call top-end. :eek:

I know you will have a million and one things to do at the moment but I do feel it would be prudent to move away from EDF sooner rather later; IMHO, of course.

So what’s next on the list;..water meter, council tax, insurance: car/home et al, driving licence address change, Voters register, TV licence, Sky TV, Broadband, L/L phone, window cleaner, re-direct your mail, HMRC, Banks, Credit card companies, new doctor/dentist/optician, tell all your friends/relatives, etc etc etc etc…and breathe!

srisport

Robin9 wrote: »

Now get into the habit of reading your meter at least monthly and give these readings to your supplier. Keep your own records.

Read and understand your online bills - make sure they have used your readings.

yep this will take some getting used too, although checking my electricity meter reading today (lived in house for 1 week) I worked out we have used 45KWh

Not sure if this is good or bad? :rotfl::rotfl:

bri160356 wrote: »

Insist that EDF charge you your new fixed tariff rate forthwith!...when my son moved into his new home he immediately asked to be moved to a cheaper EDF tariff but it still took them about 13 days to complete the swap from their ‘Standard’ tariff.

When he got his first EDF bill and saw he’d been charged 13 days at ‘Standard’ rates he had a row with them and they agreed, as a goodwill gesture and even though it was against company policy, to refund him £5;…a whole fiver!...we thought the party would never end. :beer:

That was July’17,..perhaps EDF have softened their stance in recent times.

Apart from that EDF handled his account extremely proficiently to be fair. However, after 12 months with EDF he’s just completed a move to Avro Energy last week.

He was on EDF’s very competitive ‘Online Saver August 18’ tariff . Unfortunately, that tariff terminates very shortly and he found EDF’s renewal quotes way too expensive.

If I plug my own annual usage figures (E=5234KWh, G=15700KWh) into a comparison site then EDF’s Blue+Price Protection Sep19 tariff (13 months fixed, no fees) is certainly what I would call top-end. :eek:

I know you will have a million and one things to do at the moment but I do feel it would be prudent to move away from EDF sooner rather later; IMHO, of course.

So what’s next on the list;..water meter, council tax, insurance: car/home et al, driving licence address change, Voters register, TV licence, Sky TV, Broadband, L/L phone, window cleaner, re-direct your mail, HMRC, Banks, Credit card companies, new doctor/dentist/optician, tell all your friends/relatives, etc etc etc etc…and breathe!

This is the tariff we have just gone too, its £9 cheaper p/month than standard variable but doesn't charge me for leaving. As for the list of jobs, I think we have everything covered apart from changing address's. :T

Regards.

macman

45kWh at say 12p unit: about £5.40, plus standing charge.

bri160356

srisport wrote: »

yep this will take some getting used too, although checking my electricity meter reading today (lived in house for 1 week) I worked out we have used 45KWh

Not sure if this is good or bad? :rotfl::rotfl:

No idea whether 45kWh in 7 days is good or bad for you property, but I wish my leccy usage was that low;…at this time of year my usage for 7 days is approximately 73KWh.

On your EDF tariff 45Kwh of electricity in 7 days equates to an approximate pro-rata total charge of £38.87/month;…it's quite an expensive tariff.

srisport

bri160356 wrote: »

No idea whether 45kWh in 7 days is good or bad for you property, but I wish my leccy usage was that low;…at this time of year my usage for 7 days is approximately 73KWh.

On your EDF tariff 45Kwh of electricity in 7 days equates to an approximate pro-rata total charge of £38.87/month;…it's quite an expensive tariff.

I'm sure this figure will rise over time as we start properly living in our new home.

Yeah this is more or less what I worked out for the month, which is still less than what EDF suggest we will spend on a months usage. however I will still be changing sooner rather then later.

Regards.