Standing Charges

Grandadof6

The standing charges from my energy provider increased in April along with the energy rates. Elec.increased from 19.9p/day to 51.63p/day. Gas increased from 19.4p/day to 27.2p/day. Yearly increase therefore Elec. £115.80 Gas £28.50. People trying to save money by reducing their usage are still hit by the increases in the standing charges of £144. This cant be fair. Standing charges should not be increased, or should be at zero, so that any cutting back on usage is more beneficial. I would like to see Martin campaign on this.

TadleyBaggie

Another day, another standing charge rant. Lots of recent threads on virtually the same subject, try using the Search box.

pochase

Welcome to the forum.

Martin did campaign on it and lost.

And the cost of what the standing charges are paying for are still there and need to be paid for.

GingerTim

Unfortunately the powers that be have removed the 'what is the standing charge and why has it gone up so much' sticky from the top of the forum (not that it ever stopped queries...)

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6339555/mse-update-why-has-the-standing-charge-for-electricity-nearly-doubled#l

[Deleted User]

I'm constantly impressed with the stream of "this affects me therefore it can't be fair".  Even when the same discussion has been had daily for the last few weeks.

savers_united

Did think with the rising rates the SC debate would have gone away, the daily Elec SC from Oct will be less than 1kwh of Elec, so no longer really a large part of the overall bill and to think what the SC covers it seems fairly good value in the grand scheme of things.