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New Gas / Electricity supplier
MigsyBigsy
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in Energy
Hello all,
just looked at energy suppliers as my parents' one is ending at the end of next month.
Unfortunately not much around, but EON have a fixed rate for a year (no exit fees) for £86. Parents were currently paying £35 (with EON)
Does £86 seems reasonable?
Annual usage is as follows:
Elec: 1906
Gas: 467
thank you in advance
just looked at energy suppliers as my parents' one is ending at the end of next month.
Unfortunately not much around, but EON have a fixed rate for a year (no exit fees) for £86. Parents were currently paying £35 (with EON)
Does £86 seems reasonable?
Annual usage is as follows:
Elec: 1906
Gas: 467
thank you in advance
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Are you sure ? Both of these are extremely low ?MigsyBigsy said:
Annual usage is as follows:
Elec: 1906
Gas: 467
thank you in advance
Is the gas perhaps a unit reading from the meter ? Can you read the meter itself and look for ft3 or m3 ?
What do the bills say - and are those readings Estimated or Actual ?Never pay on an estimated bill. Always read and understand your bill1 -
thanks Robin,Robin9 said:
Are you sure ? Both of these are extremely low ?MigsyBigsy said:
Annual usage is as follows:
Elec: 1906
Gas: 467
thank you in advance
Is the gas perhaps a unit reading from the meter ? Can you read the meter itself and look for ft3 or m3 ?
What do the bills say - and are those readings Estimated or Actual ?
those are the estimates from EON on annual consumption. Slight error on my part on the Electricity. It should read 19310 -
Time to do your own figures please
Read the meters today please and also look back about 12 months and find some bills with Actual readings on them - definitely not E.
Never pay on an estimated bill. Always read and understand your bill1 -
They don't offer you a fixed rate for £86, they are estimating a direct debit of £86 for the fixed tariff they are offering, of your parents use more energy than they estimate they will be billed more.
Going from the estimated usage and ball park figures for the SVT of 28p electricity and 40p standing charges, plus 0.07p gas with 25 standing charges I calculate £810 per year and £68 per month on current SVT.
The offered £86pm, would be 26.5% more expensive, so not that bad.
But that is a lot of guess work, what is the real usage that has been asked for real SVT ratesm and what are the details of the offered fixed tariff?0 -
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