Price Cap

Ultrasonic

GunJack said:

It's got to be said that the way they implement it is totally bonkers.... surely 1 SC for gas and 1 for leccy per region, and similarly 1 ppkwh gas and 1 for leccy per region?? none of this faffing with average consumption divided by Pi times the square root of 42 lol 

Arguably it is in consumer's interest for there to be the freedom there is for energy companies to vary standing and unit prices within the cap. Thus is because different combinations will be cheaper for different customers based on their usage, e.g. customers who use less energy will be better off with lower standing charge but higher unit price, and vice versa. Although this only applies when new customers can choose to move to a providers default tariff, which I don't believe it is currently.