How will the £400 energy payment work if you have an electric coin meter?

vasso

My landlord has installed two electric coin meters in the flat for his convenience. Am I allowed any funds from the £400 energy payment work that was announced? I pay more for years due to the electric coin meters as they are more expensive than anything else. Many thanks. 

MWT

If these are owned by your landlord and you do not have your own electricity account directly with a supplier then you will not be getting the £400 applied to your energy costs in the same way as those with their own energy account.

.. BUT... there was a statement made that there will be a fund set up to provide a similar level of support to those without there own account such as people living in Park Homes and those paying their landlord directly, we just don't have any details about it yet... 

macman

If these are private meters, the LL cannot resell to you at a profit.

QrizB

macman said:

If these are private meters, the LL cannot resell to you at a profit.

I was going to say exactly that.

OP, you say:

vasso said:

I pay more for years due to the electric coin meters as they are more expensive than anything else.

Your landlord can only sell energy to you for the same as they pay for it. If you're being charged more than this, your landlord is likely to be breaking the law.

MWT

Without a lot more detail it isn't possible to assume the landlord is over-charging, but it is possible of course.

For example , since the landlord has installed their own meters they are entitled to recover their reasonable costs for operating those meters within their charges.

Also consider that the tariff the landlord is on may not be a domestic tariff, and although they cannot pass on the 20% VAT or the CCL component they may still be on  higher than typical kWh rate...

There are a few more legal but morally questionable things they can do to avoid the resale price limits, but we would need to know what the current rates are of course as the OP may be assuming that the coin meter is more expensive just because it is conventional wisdom that it will be...

... or the landlord could be a rogue... we just don't know ... yet...