Please post your electricty unit/standing day rates

Phlik

Deleted_User said:

My electric is 15p per unit and 23p a day SC ex VAT on a current EDF fix. Will be a long time until I see these rates again.

We'll never see those rates again. High energy prices aren't going to be temporary, they'll fall back from the peak but they'll never return to 2020 levels, the biggest concern is the height of the peak.

wild666

Present E cost 20.01p, 26.45p SC April 27.36p, 48.53p SC
Present G Cost 3.91p, 26.11p SC  April 7.28p, 27.22p SC 

My biggest concern is that when the money from SoLR has being collected the 18.6p added to the E SC will not be reduced as will the 11p added to the E bill SC from April 2023. Suppliers will do anything to keep the money added for other expenses like SoLR and the £200 repayments.

Sausages3

Sausages3 said:

EssexHebridean said:

OP - your post suggests that those are the rates you are paying right now - and if that's the case, it sounds as though you've been put onto a fixed tariff - is that the case?  (if those are the rates from April 1st you've given, then they're closer to what we'd expect to see on a variable tariff, but look like perhaps you're paying by a means other than by Direct debit - I believe there is a saving to be made there right away if that is your situation.) 

Hi EssexH,  These are my current unit rates and standing charges for electricity on basic quarterly billing. This is not a fixed tariff etc.

As you suspected after speaking to SSE it seems I can reduce these rates to  27.86p per kWh and a standing rate of 48.13p per day if I move to quarterly DD billing - thats a saving i will take. The problem is signing up to the DD as the website only allows me to join on a monthly DD which I wont do as the savings are always outdone by the hundreds of pounds over spend that occurs every year for me.

These SSE rates are what im paying after April 1st 2022 on the std variable tarrif for Quarterly billing

So after many Whatsapp support enquiries and a telkephone call trying to set up a Quarterly billing DD manadet to get those prices ...... guess what... SSE wont confirm them, even though theyve quoted me them on repeated support enquiries.

Im sticking to quarterly billing at the higher rates... but im going to continue to provide meter reads every 28 days and pay the amounts down completely. I'll be payingslightly higher rates but at least not overpaying and accruing yet more "credit" on the energy companies cashflow balance sheets.

I think its time to spend my time and money working out how to take as much of my gas/electric energy usage "self generation and off-grid" as possible.

Phlik

Sausages3 said:

Sausages3 said:

EssexHebridean said:

OP - your post suggests that those are the rates you are paying right now - and if that's the case, it sounds as though you've been put onto a fixed tariff - is that the case?  (if those are the rates from April 1st you've given, then they're closer to what we'd expect to see on a variable tariff, but look like perhaps you're paying by a means other than by Direct debit - I believe there is a saving to be made there right away if that is your situation.) 

Hi EssexH,  These are my current unit rates and standing charges for electricity on basic quarterly billing. This is not a fixed tariff etc.

As you suspected after speaking to SSE it seems I can reduce these rates to  27.86p per kWh and a standing rate of 48.13p per day if I move to quarterly DD billing - thats a saving i will take. The problem is signing up to the DD as the website only allows me to join on a monthly DD which I wont do as the savings are always outdone by the hundreds of pounds over spend that occurs every year for me.

These SSE rates are what im paying after April 1st 2022 on the std variable tarrif for Quarterly billing

I think its time to spend my time and money working out how to take as much of my gas/electric energy usage "self generation and off-grid" as possible.

This is exactly what I've been doing, sadly we had a bit of a heads up to what was unfolding back in September time when avro went bust. The rise then was bad enough.

Moved in to this house in August 2018 and have been concentrating on insulation, walls were already done, loft is now a minimum of a foot thick, almost finished insulating the sub floor. Modern boiler already fitted but controls upgraded, settings tweeked to improve efficiency and times/temperatures reduced where possible. 4.2kwh solar installed at the end of 2018, at some point a 10kw+ battery system will be added in with some more panels. Log burner going in this spring summer as we have good access to free fire wood.

EssexHebridean

Surely you can simply do a variable DD payment? I thought most suppliers offered that as an option. It seems crazy to me just to throw away over £20 a year just on the standing charge - before you even get to the saving on the unit price.  (I've just checked - SSE do appear to offer a "pay in full" quarterly DD option - I'd check with them whether that nets you the reduced prices, but I'd imagine it should.)

Sausages3

EssexHebridean said:

Surely you can simply do a variable DD payment? I thought most suppliers offered that as an option. It seems crazy to me just to throw away over £20 a year just on the standing charge - before you even get to the saving on the unit price.  (I've just checked - SSE do appear to offer a "pay in full" quarterly DD option - I'd check with them whether that nets you the reduced prices, but I'd imagine it should.)

Well thats what i spent the last 2 days trying to do. They repeatdly tried to set up the normal monthly DD. I said no its the quarterly invoive paid by DD, eventually when I did get it set up I asked to check and confirm the unti/standing charges and it wasnt the ones already provided and when pushed I was told it wouldnt be. ? go figure.

I accept all the staff are under huge workload and pressure at the moment but the sheer scale of inconsistent information being handed out by these companies is woeful.

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jobdone1 said:

[Deleted User] said:

My electric is 15p per unit and 23p a day SC ex VAT on a current EDF fix. Will be a long time until I see these rates again.

Be prepared for the shock 

Nice pun BTW.

Yes I am expecting my bank account to take a hammering from May. Literally double what I am paying now.