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

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  • wibbler
    wibbler Posts: 177 Forumite
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    edited 28 July 2022 at 12:10PM
    Alnat1 said:

    Green Energy use a variable DD system, you pay each month for what you use. Small bills in summer, large in winter. No build up of credit or debit balances. 
    This is a good point. While the answer to coping with that is good budgeting, if the prices are huge from October and the usage is high in the winter months, the bills in Winter will be far bigger in this scheme than a regular direct debit, and hard to budget for.
  • Dandytf
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    I'll post SP...

    Help Beat Cancer Greener Future May
    2023 CM1 Online
    Payment method Monthly Direct Debit
    Tariff end date 31 May 2023
    Exit fee
    (if you switch supplier more than 49 days before
    the tariff end date)
    Not applicable
    Your actual usage in the
    last 12 months
    Day
    Night
    3,746 kWh
    3,069 kWh

    Electric -White Meter
    Day rate 118 kWh x 21.552p £25.43
    Standing Charge 33 days x 26.890p
    Night rate 340 kWh x 9.425p

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  • arandomguy
    arandomguy Posts: 13 Forumite
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    Dandytf said:
    I'll post SP...

    Help Beat Cancer Greener Future May
    2023 CM1 Online
    Payment method Monthly Direct Debit
    Tariff end date 31 May 2023
    Exit fee
    (if you switch supplier more than 49 days before
    the tariff end date)
    Not applicable
    Your actual usage in the
    last 12 months
    Day
    Night
    3,746 kWh
    3,069 kWh

    Electric -White Meter
    Day rate 118 kWh x 21.552p £25.43
    Standing Charge 33 days x 26.890p
    Night rate 340 kWh x 9.425p

    I'm with SP and I'm to being quoted anything like this :(
  • wibbler
    wibbler Posts: 177 Forumite
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    A quick heads up, if you are planning to switch to Green Energy UK on sparkle, I have just got off the phone with them and they're saying that their prices have gone up today, however theurwebsite is still showing old prices to me.

    just switched and will see what happens, will inform if I get an email or anything to say they are increasing but as far as I am aware I will be charged what I signed up for. 

    They said the website takes a while to update. if you are trying to work out if you should do it or not then just do it, you have a cooling off period!

    I've attached my quote for curious people, on the phone they said gas is 14.xp and electric 4x.xp (sorry can't remember exactly I was in a hurry to get of phone to try and secure the lower rate)
    This is what I secured from Green Energy last night. Looks like the Electricity has gone up this morning, but gas is the same:

    Electricity rates

    Standing charge: 43.39p per day

    Unit rate: 38.96p per kwh

    Gas rates:

    Standing (daily) charge:  31.31p per day

    Unit rate: 11.75p per kWh

  • Dandytf
    Dandytf Posts: 5,073 Forumite
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    Dandytf said:
    I'll post SP...

    Help Beat Cancer Greener Future May
    2023 CM1 Online
    Payment method Monthly Direct Debit
    Tariff end date 31 May 2023
    Exit fee
    (if you switch supplier more than 49 days before
    the tariff end date)
    Not applicable
    Your actual usage in the
    last 12 months
    Day
    Night
    3,746 kWh
    3,069 kWh

    Electric -White Meter
    Day rate 118 kWh x 21.552p £25.43
    Standing Charge 33 days x 26.890p
    Night rate 340 kWh x 9.425p

    I'm with SP and I'm to being quoted anything like this :(
    Excuse that's 2 yr fix ongoing since 2021.
    The next time, I could drop onto standard rates until energy costs settle at whichever levels....

    e.g. new 1 year fix 229.03 2 year fix 231.52

    I have quickly read over rates though not posting as yet.

    thanks
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  • arandomguy
    arandomguy Posts: 13 Forumite
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    wibbler said:
    A quick heads up, if you are planning to switch to Green Energy UK on sparkle, I have just got off the phone with them and they're saying that their prices have gone up today, however theurwebsite is still showing old prices to me.

    just switched and will see what happens, will inform if I get an email or anything to say they are increasing but as far as I am aware I will be charged what I signed up for. 

    They said the website takes a while to update. if you are trying to work out if you should do it or not then just do it, you have a cooling off period!

    I've attached my quote for curious people, on the phone they said gas is 14.xp and electric 4x.xp (sorry can't remember exactly I was in a hurry to get of phone to try and secure the lower rate)
    This is what I secured from Green Energy last night. Looks like the Electricity has gone up this morning, but gas is the same:

    Electricity rates

    Standing charge: 43.39p per day

    Unit rate: 38.96p per kwh

    Gas rates:

    Standing (daily) charge:  31.31p per day

    Unit rate: 11.75p per kWh

    Was just checking again and it has now increased. I will be cancelling my switch if I don't get the rates I was quoted during signup.

    New rates for me:

    Electric

    Standing Charge (p/day) (p/supply)  47.58pUnit Rate (p/kWh) 45.10p


    Gas

    Standing Charge (p/day) (p/supply) 31.31p
    Unit Rate (p/kWh) 14.90p

    (sorry can't figure out how to remove formatting from copy and paste)



  • pearl123
    pearl123 Posts: 2,082 Forumite
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    wibbler said:
    Incredibly, Green Energy UK's Sparkling tariff is still up, and hasn't changed its prices. Are they hoping for government assistance? They longer they keep it on, the more concerned I get for their affordability.

    Anyway, that seems to be the only open market choice now. Everyone else seems to have changed their prices overnight.
    Green Energy UK could end up like Avro. 
  • Good morning all

    I am new here and struggling to understand if my provider’s offer of a fixed deal is any good. I came to Octopus via Avro when they collapsed. Details as below. Usage:

    Gas 
    8,367 kWh/yr

    Electricity 
    3,984 kWh/yr



    Many thanks!
    Prices have already gone up:


  • Doc_N
    Doc_N Posts: 8,547 Forumite
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    pearl123 said:
    wibbler said:
    Incredibly, Green Energy UK's Sparkling tariff is still up, and hasn't changed its prices. Are they hoping for government assistance? They longer they keep it on, the more concerned I get for their affordability.

    Anyway, that seems to be the only open market choice now. Everyone else seems to have changed their prices overnight.
    Green Energy UK could end up like Avro. 
    That’s why I’m not switching away from my current excellent BG fix, which unfortunately ends in early October. I’d lose more than two months of what’s now remarkably cheap energy, for another fix which might never happen.
  • Cloth_of_Gold
    Cloth_of_Gold Posts: 1,137 Forumite
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    Hi, I would appreciate some advice please.

    Our fixed deal with Scottish Power ended yesterday and we have been offered a new 1 or 2 year fixed deal. We haven't done anything about it yet and so from today are on the standard tariff. Our usage for the 12 months ending May 2022, according to Scottish Power, was 7989KWH. It is likely to be less in the coming year as we are now being more careful about our energy usage, but I can't see it being hugely less.

    The one year deal they have offered (Green Flexi August 2023 M1) has a standing charge of 32.14p per day and a unit cost of 45.692p/KWH. The standard rate currently has the same standing charge but the unit rate is only 29.632p/KWH.   About a month ago they reminded us that our then fixed rate was due to end and we looked at what was on offer but obviously didn't switch then. The standard rate was the same then as it is today though. I would have to check but, from memory, on our previous deal we were paying something like 18 or 19p per unit, so this would represent an increase of about 150%, which seems excessive, from the figures I hear on the news. In the last 12 months we paid something like £1500 for our electricity and they are forecasting with the fixed deal around £3800! We don't have any gas appliances at the moment.

    My question is, Should we move to the 1 year fixed (or the slightly more expensive two year fixed) tariff or stay with the standard tariff, as it is so much cheaper. I realise that it could, and probably will, go up, but is it likely to go above what is being offered on these fixed price deals? I just wonder if we're being encouraged to go onto something that will not be to our advantage or whether, in fact, the standard tariff will rocket soon, by which time these deals will have been replaced by something even more expensive and we will rue not taking what's on offer now.

    I just checked what SP is offering us now as a fixed rate. They are only offering us two, and the cheapest of those is the Green Flexi August 2023 M2. The rates are 53.7 p/KWH and 32.14 SC. The SC is the same as what they offered 4 weeks ago but the unit rate has gone up by 8p, or 17.5%. We stayed on the variable rate of 29.6p/KWH and SC of 32.14p/day.  4 weeks ago, according to SP, our annual usage is 7989 KWH, today, and after submitting a reading on 1/7, it has gone down to 6899.

    I just checked Green Energy's website and they are quoting us the same SC as SP but a UR of 'only' 45.57p/KWH. This offer is basically the same as that being offered by SP 4 weeks ago, and which we rejected in favour of staying on the SVR. Clearly that was the correct decision then, as we have saved a little over the last 4 weeks by paying 16p/KWH less than we would have done had we switched.

    My question is does anyone have any feeling for how long this Green Energy tariff will last? Naturally, it's better to stay on the SVR as long as possible but we don't want to miss out if the Green Energy tariff jumps significantly in the near future. I know that no one knows for certain what is going to happen but does anyone have a feeling for what we should do - stay on SPs SVR, at least for now, or move now to Green Energy's Sparkling fixed tariff?
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