Switching and moving home in Winter 2021

echofall

I know that all of the advice at the moment is not to switch energy provider, but I'm moving house in a few weeks, and I can either switch to the current provider at the property i'm buying, or keep my current provider and get them to switch the provision from the current supplier to them.  

I'm not sure what to do?  I'm currently with British Gas and they say switching the supply at the new property to them will take 3 weeks, so i'll have to pay the current provider (Scottish Power) in the meantime.  Should I just switch to Scottish power?  Or stick with British Gas and just pay Scottish power for 3 weeks?

Little_Anthony

I am also in this position.  The current provider of my new house is Scottish Power.  Will I go straight tonto their variable rate (the best option at present) if I do nothing ?

QrizB

Do you currently have a good fixed-rate deal with BG and have they told you that you can keep that deal at your new property? If so, it's probably worth jumping through BG's hoops to take it with you.

Otherwise, you'll be paying essentially the same rates with SP's deemed tariff as a new customer as you would do with BG (it's even possible that BG will end up costing you more).

echofall

No I'm not on a fixed-rate deal anymore, it expired in June and i just left it as I knew I was moving.  So I'm just on the standard rate I assume

Swipe

echofall said:

No I'm not on a fixed-rate deal anymore, it expired in June and i just left it as I knew I was moving.  So I'm just on the standard rate I assume

No need to stay with British Gas then, just keep it simple

jbuchanangb

When you move into a property you are automatically supplied by the company which supplied the previous occupier. Read the meters, call the supplier, open an account on their Standard Variable Tariff. Pretty much every supplier's SVT is on or very close to the OFGEM cap now, so just stick with it. There are no better deals.

echofall

when I follow the "moving into a home with Scottish Power" path on their website, they only offer me fixed rate deals, not an SVT, I'll assume I'll just have to call them when i get moved in.  thanks!