What rates are you being offered by your provider at the moment?

gfunkuk

I'm wondering what I should say to British Gas, can anyone help? I think they're being unreasonable. Currently on a fixed rate until next year paying a DD of £232/month electric only with actual usage between £180-£200/month. As of next month they want to increase the DD to £280. Bear in mind in February (not fixed rate) my DD was just £60!

Can they increase it that much when they have no reason to? They can't say I'll use more in the winter as I have no need to use heating.

Mstty

gfunkuk said:

I'm wondering what I should say to British Gas, can anyone help? I think they're being unreasonable. Currently on a fixed rate until next year paying a DD of £232/month electric only with actual usage between £180-£200/month. As of next month they want to increase the DD to £280. Bear in mind in February (not fixed rate) my DD was just £60!

Can they increase it that much when they have no reason to? They can't say I'll use more in the winter as I have no need to use heating.

As long as you know for certain you are in credit and your annual usage. Remind British Gas that as this is your electricity account £400 will be added to it from the government from October so you would like to keep your direct debit the same.

If you are in debt then the above might not fly.

Remember most people's usage is 60-75% October til April so factor that in your calculations to be sure you are covering winter.

gfunkuk

Mstty said:

gfunkuk said:

I'm wondering what I should say to British Gas, can anyone help? I think they're being unreasonable. Currently on a fixed rate until next year paying a DD of £232/month electric only with actual usage between £180-£200/month. As of next month they want to increase the DD to £280. Bear in mind in February (not fixed rate) my DD was just £60!

Can they increase it that much when they have no reason to? They can't say I'll use more in the winter as I have no need to use heating.

As long as you know for certain you are in credit and your annual usage. Remind British Gas that as this is your electricity account £400 will be added to it from the government from October so you would like to keep your direct debit the same.

If you are in debt then the above might not fly.

Remember most people's usage is 60-75% October til April so factor that in your calculations to be sure you are covering winter.

Thanks for the quick reply. Currently £560 in credit and don't have any increased usage during winter.

Annual usage was very high at approx 12k kWh but since I stopped crypto mining its jumped down a lot.

 I'll give them a call tomorrow!

Mstty

gfunkuk said:

Mstty said:

gfunkuk said:

I'm wondering what I should say to British Gas, can anyone help? I think they're being unreasonable. Currently on a fixed rate until next year paying a DD of £232/month electric only with actual usage between £180-£200/month. As of next month they want to increase the DD to £280. Bear in mind in February (not fixed rate) my DD was just £60!

Can they increase it that much when they have no reason to? They can't say I'll use more in the winter as I have no need to use heating.

As long as you know for certain you are in credit and your annual usage. Remind British Gas that as this is your electricity account £400 will be added to it from the government from October so you would like to keep your direct debit the same.

If you are in debt then the above might not fly.

Remember most people's usage is 60-75% October til April so factor that in your calculations to be sure you are covering winter.

Thanks for the quick reply. Currently £560 in credit and don't have any increased usage during winter. I'll give them a call tomorrow!

If you want to use up that credit as it is large you could ask to switch to variable DD until it's used up then you only pay what you owe and stash the normal monthly payment in a saved for energy interest bearing account.

pickapennyup

Colino_Green said:

e.on are offering the following for existing DD customers such as myself:

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E.ONnext Next Loyalty 24M Fixed Rate - June 2022 Issue 2

Monthly cost £106.28

                        Electricity                Gas
Daily standing charge            42.24p                    27.22p
Unit rate                        40.60p per kWh        10.38p per kWh
Assumed annual usage            1,320kWh                4,681kWh

Estimated annual cost            £690.18                £585.34

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It is a two year fix but, crucially, it has no exit fees.

Does that look like a decent deal that I should accept based on the current horror stories regarding the October estimate, bearing in mind that the £400 rebate should lessen the blow, somewhat?

thank you so much for putting up this tarriff.I had just fixed with eon V15 to follow on with my existing one from August V3 which V1 looked ok but was only for 12 months.I saw yours and phoned them and they said your was not avaliable to me,been a customer for 20yrs +and always been in credit so i emailed complaining and was offered the same as you and i said about the warm home grant £140 and it has been paid into my account today i could not believe it so thank you for posting,mx

gfunkuk

Mstty said:

gfunkuk said:

Mstty said:

gfunkuk said:

I'm wondering what I should say to British Gas, can anyone help? I think they're being unreasonable. Currently on a fixed rate until next year paying a DD of £232/month electric only with actual usage between £180-£200/month. As of next month they want to increase the DD to £280. Bear in mind in February (not fixed rate) my DD was just £60!

Can they increase it that much when they have no reason to? They can't say I'll use more in the winter as I have no need to use heating.

As long as you know for certain you are in credit and your annual usage. Remind British Gas that as this is your electricity account £400 will be added to it from the government from October so you would like to keep your direct debit the same.

If you are in debt then the above might not fly.

Remember most people's usage is 60-75% October til April so factor that in your calculations to be sure you are covering winter.

Thanks for the quick reply. Currently £560 in credit and don't have any increased usage during winter. I'll give them a call tomorrow!

If you want to use up that credit as it is large you could ask to switch to variable DD until it's used up then you only pay what you owe and stash the normal monthly payment in a saved for energy interest bearing account.

If I've got that as an option I'd much rather that. Currently they seem reluctant to send me a bill or they're just slow. Last week I got a bill for December until March 28th with no sign when they're going to give me another, so I guess the credit isn't really technically credit. I'm still giving monthly readings that's how I know my actual usage level.

nekr0mantik

EON only offering me either Flex or Next Online v16

So flex means £67 a month at the moment vs £101 for Next Online based on 2300KWH per year but I actually use closer to 2200. Which seems excessive compared to most here for 1 bed flat haha

Mstty

nekr0mantik said:

EON only offering me either Flex or Next Online v16

So flex means £67 a month at the moment vs £101 for Next Online based on 2300KWH per year but I actually use closer to 2200. Which seems excessive compared to most here for 1 bed flat haha

There was a long term customer on Eon Next who managed to get V15. So might be worth a discussion with their customer services department if you have been with them a long time.

nekr0mantik

Mstty said:

nekr0mantik said:

EON only offering me either Flex or Next Online v16

So flex means £67 a month at the moment vs £101 for Next Online based on 2300KWH per year but I actually use closer to 2200. Which seems excessive compared to most here for 1 bed flat haha

There was a long term customer on Eon Next who managed to get V15. So might be worth a discussion with their customer services department if you have been with them a long time.

Not been with them too long. Only 4 years and now moving to new property where they also supply

Telegraph_Sam

"There's *also* Octopus's daily variable tariffs, Agile (electric only) and Tracker (electric and gas). They should work out cheaper
than the Loyal Octopus fix. Agile is likely to be cheaper than Tracker but needs a smart meter with 30-minute metering"

I got the impression that Agile was really only an advantage for EV owners who could shift a major chunk of their consumption into the wee small hours. That otherwise you were better off with one of the other var tariffs.