Energy: Find the cheapest supplier & earn cashback

Wywth

You can get a possible £40 cashback from Simplyswitch using the special MSE link in the article.

As for the output from the First Utility site, you must be doing something wrong. When I input your details into the FU site I get the same outcome as I did with the EHL site i.e. £637 p.a.

Are you sure you are supplied in the NW region?

tonyhamm

(Merseyside). Indeed - Going direct to First Utility and then selecting the LOWEST plan will give £637.
But I want FIXED and thats £655 with First Utility as detailed above.

Thanks for the advice on SimplySwitch.

Wywth

Ah... Merseyside is not the NW supply region (Norweb), but the Manweb (Merseyside & North Wales) supply region.

Then the fixed rate tariffs for you would be:
FU - £655 p.a.
Ovo - £659 p.a.

But I'd probably personally take the risk on variable rate tariffs for a total of just £577 p.a.
i.e. Gas - nPower Energy Online April 2014 (£185 p.a.)
Electricity - BG Online Variable February 2014 (£392 p.a.)

No one knows what prices will do over the next 12-16 months, but paying a 13.5% premium today when both BG & nPower have just recently implemented their price rises doesn't sound like too good a bet.

tonyhamm

Maybe it's worth the gamble as you said.

realeconomist

Just visited this site and registered after several attempts.
I took the advice and used energyhelpline.com to compare my current electricity deal (which is due to expire in February 2013) with the best deal from then on and found that the energyhelpline.com is useless as it makes an assumption that I will stay with my current provider. How stupid...if I was going to stay with them then I would not be going to comparison websites. To give you some idea of how useless energyhelp.com is I currently pay £869 per year with npower and energyhelpline.com stated it was £1140 assuming that I stayed with npower after the deal ends. Consequently it showed I could save money by switching. However, because ALL energy suppliers have increased their prices then in actual fact if I switch to the cheapest tariff when my current deal expires then I will pay an extra £61 per year. I suggest that this moneysavingexpert site is supporting a misleading comparison site and suggest that you also try several others including moneysupermarket.com, uswitch.com, etc and then you will get a real comparison. Why anyone uses this and it's associated websites now that Martin Lewis has sold out is beyond me.

Wywth

realeconomist wrote: »

Just visited this site and registered after several attempts.
I took the advice and used energyhelpline.com to compare my current electricity deal (which is due to expire in February 2013) with the best deal from then on and found that the energyhelpline.com is useless as it makes an assumption that I will stay with my current provider. How stupid...if I was going to stay with them then I would not be going to comparison websites. To give you some idea of how useless energyhelp.com is I currently pay £869 per year with npower and energyhelpline.com stated it was £1140 assuming that I stayed with npower after the deal ends. Consequently it showed I could save money by switching. However, because ALL energy suppliers have increased their prices then in actual fact if I switch to the cheapest tariff when my current deal expires then I will pay an extra £61 per year. I suggest that this moneysavingexpert site is supporting a misleading comparison site and suggest that you also try several others including moneysupermarket.com, uswitch.com, etc and then you will get a real comparison. Why anyone uses this and it's associated websites now that Martin Lewis has sold out is beyond me.

So why were you so keen to register here? :huh:

blahblahdoh

realeconomist wrote: »

To give you some idea of how useless energyhelp.com is I currently pay £869 per year with npower and energyhelpline.com stated it was £1140 assuming that I stayed with npower after the deal ends. Consequently it showed I could save money by switching. However, because ALL energy suppliers have increased their prices then in actual fact if I switch to the cheapest tariff when my current deal expires then I will pay an extra £61 per year.

I don't see what your problem is. Comparing with last years prices, which will no longer be available, doesn't seem sensible. Working out the difference between what your current supplier would cost, and what you would pay if you switch, seems to me a useful comparison - and if it is less, then that can reasonably be construed as a saving. Definitely use more than one comparison site though, but that is what has always been recommended here. Also, once you find a cheap supplier, have a look at Cashback sites, as they sometimes offer more than the comparison sites.

David_Partington

I'm going to move away from EON as they have introduced a standing charge and i'm a low user. When I go via MSE to Money supermarket it brings up scottish power as one of the better deals and says they give an exclusive £20 cashback via money supermarket. Does anyone know if this is instead of the £30 money supermarket cashback or in addition to it?

Also has anyone used Simply switch and got the £20 cashback?

Thanks Dave

David_Partington

I've just had a closer look and in fact it says at the bottom of the quote £50 cashback.

Can anyone see any drawbacks?

It doesn't say if there is a standing charge or not with Scottish power; does anyone know for sure?

Mrs_Richards

I would just say that I have had problems switching to Scottish Power. They have set my direct debit THREE times the old amount, are impossible to get through to on the phone, have not replied to emails and have not yet replied to letter (5 weeks ago). I'd say chose someone else