Scottish Power Standing charges

Gwladok5

Am I missing something here?


Scottish Power's 1 yr fixed deal have dual fuel standing charges of 19.18p


However, for 2 year fixed these rise to 36.10p & 34.17p


So if I sign up for 2 years, I immediately start paying a substantially higher standing charge than if I went for 1 year?

Robin9

Nothing missed - its SP's tariff.

Your choice - what are the unit rates.


PS It is generally thought that you should have seperate suppliers for gas and electric rather than dual fuel.

Gwladok5

Hi Robin9


Unit charges are 3.269 & 16.04 to 3.565 & 17.23


As the S/C are "fees" for providing the service, there is no logic to such a massive hike

Robin9

What matters is the bottom line - a mixture of s'c and unit rates.


As I said your choice - if you don't like what SP is offering go elsewhere.

JJ_Egan

No logic more like no set prices for standing charges .
They can be very vairiable .

bwff

Gwladok5 wrote: »

Am I missing something here?


Scottish Power's 1 yr fixed deal have dual fuel standing charges of 19.18p


However, for 2 year fixed these rise to 36.10p & 34.17p


So if I sign up for 2 years, I immediately start paying a substantially higher standing charge than if I went for 1 year?

Gwladok5 wrote: »

Hi Robin9


Unit charges are 3.269 & 16.04 to 3.565 & 17.23


As the S/C are "fees" for providing the service, there is no logic to such a massive hike

I've just been looking at Ebico.
They have a range of tariffs on offer. If you simply look at their range of 12 month fixed tariffs, I find one tariff (Ebico Zero Green Fixed v3) which says it has 0.00p per day standing charges for each of gas & electricity, whilst another tariff (Ebico Prime 12 Fixed v3) has daily standing charges of 47.88p per day (electricity) and 49.99p per day (gas)

So that throws your logic out of the window.