Standing Charges

Jackim1968

I know the increase in energy bills I'm with boost on payg smart meters. Can anyone tell me why the daily standing charge  on both my gas and electric has almost doubled ? 

QrizB

What was the SC before and what is it now?

Jackim1968

27.48 each and now 39 electric  and 54 gas

pochase

Can you give us the rest of your rate also? I tried to find anything on their website but they don't even answer questions from customers in their own forum and tell them to contact support.

The electric standing charge looks ok, but gas is to high if there are no special agreements for the unit rates.

Jackim1968

no special agreements just on there standard rate for smart meters payg 

Tranboy

The higher charges are to pay for the supplier of last resort fiasco.

pochase

Tranboy said:

The higher charges are to pay for the supplier of last resort fiasco.

That is only correct for electricity, for gas there was on debit order only a very small increase because they decided to charge SOLR cost only on electricity.

Prepaid gas  for example EDF show 37.28p standing charge, not sure if that is the maximum, but I would be surprised if this is not the case.

Edit
37.28p is the maximum standing charge for gas. This is only an increase of 2.13p, and not double.

https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/utilities/what-are-the-price-cap-unit-rates-/

Jackim1968

These are your current standing charges
 Electricity- 53.81p
Gas- 37.28p

 Unit rates gas- 7.24p
Unit rates Electricity- 26.85p

I got the gas and electric charges mixed up

Jackim1968

So 91p a day in standing charges

Mstty

Yep start the day nearly a whole pound down.

£332 a year.

When you look at it like that for dual fuel customers it really is heat or eat come winter.

pochase

Before the April rise the average standing charge for gas and electricity combined was already 64.4p. The increase was 36% to 87.55p. OP is in a region with slightly higher standing charge, but has cheaper unit rates.

The increase is not at all 100%.