Living without electricity.

Gerry1

london21 said:

Chid1 said:

I wondered if there was a way to do it without informing the landlord. I haven;t used one unit since October and yet I'm facing a standing charge of nearly £200 per year under the new rates. I can no longer find a "no standing charge" tariff.

Something does not seem right, that is so high.

In the South West the dual fuel standing charges with EDF on DD will be £288 per year, so sadly £200 is low in comparison.

QrizB

london21 said:

Chid1 said:

I wondered if there was a way to do it without informing the landlord. I haven;t used one unit since October and yet I'm facing a standing charge of nearly £200 per year under the new rates. I can no longer find a "no standing charge" tariff.

Something does not seem eight, that is so high. Which provider are you with and what is the rate? Are you PAYG?

50p/day is £180/yr, so yes "almost £200" is believable.

Verdigris

Pre-pay is even higher, I think.

alco_pop

coupleuk said:

You can apply to have your Electric supply "de-energised" which is not the same as having it disconnected altogether.

BUT there is even a charge just to have a computer tick box pressed to de-energise and then to re-energise again.

Maybe he has been beamed up to the enterprise?

markin

People use solar garden lights indoors, And the phone could be charged on a small solar panel and car battery, or just a powerbank that has a built in solar cell, Or they have a car to charge up in/ public charging/ work charging.

TimSynths

[Deleted User] said:

Surely this is a wind up. 

Everything they have is wind up!

LADYXXMACBETH

I don't think this is a wind up. They say they're in social housing, which might imply they have limited income. Not always the case but more likely. 
I have been seriously considering turning off my heating. If you can't afford to pay the gas or electricity what do you do? 
It's a lot of money and if you're already struggling then what can you do? 

Sea_Shell

LADYXXMACBETH said:

I don't think this is a wind up. They say they're in social housing, which might imply they have limited income. Not always the case but more likely. 
I have been seriously considering turning off my heating. If you can't afford to pay the gas or electricity what do you do? 
It's a lot of money and if you're already struggling then what can you do? 

But they are claiming that they have not used a single unit of electricity since October.   

So not even a single light bulb.

It is that, that seems unbelievable, not that they are struggling financially or are having to dramatically reduce their usage.

london21

QrizB said:

london21 said:

Chid1 said:

I wondered if there was a way to do it without informing the landlord. I haven;t used one unit since October and yet I'm facing a standing charge of nearly £200 per year under the new rates. I can no longer find a "no standing charge" tariff.

Something does not seem eight, that is so high. Which provider are you with and what is the rate? Are you PAYG?

50p/day is £180/yr, so yes "almost £200" is believable.

Mine is with bulb and SC going from 23.296p to 32.147p so comes to £117 thought similar acrosss but everything going up. 

Ultrasonic

london21 said:

QrizB said:

london21 said:

Chid1 said:

I wondered if there was a way to do it without informing the landlord. I haven;t used one unit since October and yet I'm facing a standing charge of nearly £200 per year under the new rates. I can no longer find a "no standing charge" tariff.

Something does not seem eight, that is so high. Which provider are you with and what is the rate? Are you PAYG?

50p/day is £180/yr, so yes "almost £200" is believable.

Mine is with bulb and SC going from 23.296p to 32.147p so comes to £117 thought similar acrosss but everything going up. 

The difference is because of where you live. In the south west region it will be 51.6 p per day on a price cap tariff, so £188 per year.