Energy Supplier Default Tariff rate cards for April 2023

littleteapot

Have any of the suppliers published their rate cards for April 2023 yet?

Would it be useful if a forum moderator could make this sticky at the top so we keep a full list for people to refer to easily?

superkoopauk

No - because the government are only confirming the EPG rates today.  Should be available later this week.

mmmmikey

I certainly think it would be useful to have a single thread where the rate cards are posted.

I wouldn't be surprised if we start seeing them today (from EDF at least - I'm not sure which of the other suppliers publish rate cards as such) as the suppliers have already been told to prepare for various scenarios so should be ready to publish them now we know that the EPG is staying for another 3 months. Similarly, it may take some time because we don't know what else is happening. A thread to keep track of the big picture will be useful.

And there's still plenty of interest to look at when the rates are published.

1. As we have now learned the guarantee isn't a fix for most people - it's only a fix for the mythical single rate dual fuel user who spends £2500 per year who lives in a region with average charges. Because Ofgem have set maximum standing charges higher, unit rates will need to be lower to make the guarantee work. That means that other things being equal, low users should expect bills to rise and high users should expect bills to fall.

2. Regional variations may or may not be significant.

3. All bets are off for E7 rates as the suppliers have more flexibility here and we don't know what they'll do (and whether there will be any new rules around this).

One thing is almost certain - whatever happens there will be a lot of confused customers who haven't got their heads round it all and this will lead to a flurry of complaints

Mstty

I suspect it will be easily accessible here once the information has been published then we can point people there when the threads come in.

https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/utilities/

EssexHebridean

Great idea for a single thread - whether we'd be able to get it stickied might be another question but bookmarking it would be an easy way of finding it when needed to direct people to. It would certainly save all the raking through supplier websites when a rate card is required! I just checked the Octopus blog - I'd assume that they will update the existing post on there with new rates when they appear - at the moment it's still showing january though. 

mmmmikey

If anyone is interested, EDF currently publish their pre-EPG Ofgem rates here (this is what you would pay if there was no EPG discount):

https://www.edfenergy.com/latest-price-cap-rate-cards

They publish their discounted rates after the EPG has been applied here (this is what you actually pay):

https://www.edfenergy.com/for-home/energy-price-guarantee

(For this second link you have to scroll down to find them)

EssexHebridean

Octopus blog post I referred to above is below - to confirm though at time of writing the rates here are still for January prices.
https://octopus.energy/blog/energy-price-cap-oct-2022/

RG2015

I have never heard of the term Rate Cards but the link below may help. Courtesy of PeterGr

Regional EPG rates are published here.

    https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/energy-price-guarantee-regional-rates/energy-price-guarantee-regional-rates-april-to-june-2023

As per the post below.

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/79921879#Comment_79921879

Spoonie_Turtle

The government page doesn't have the standing charge though, which is annoying.

RG2015

Spoonie_Turtle said:

The government page doesn't have the standing charge though, which is annoying.

Quite, but they are on the link below which I found earlier on the Subsidiary document titled

Default tariff cap level: 1 April 2023 to 30 June 2023

https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications/default-tariff-cap-level-1-april-2023-30-june-2023

PeterGr

This table has the regional rates from Gov.uk and standing charges from OFGEM price cap and then VAT added.  Might be round off differences.

April 2023 - June 2023			Maximum. Rates
Region	G-SC p/day	G-p/kWh	E-SC p/day	E-p/kWh
North West	29.112	10.322	51.415	32.718
Northern	29.112	10.238	57.031	31.920
Yorkshire	29.112	10.248	55.601	32.361
Northern Scotland	29.112	10.269	58.978	32.561
Southern	29.112	10.416	49.597	33.516
Southern Scotland	29.112	10.269	61.668	32.907
N Wales and Mersey	29.112	10.353	61.821	34.766
London	29.112	10.322	38.183	34.682
South East	29.112	10.343	47.210	34.178
Eastern	29.112	10.206	43.657	33.978
East Midlands	29.112	10.185	50.308	32.403
Midlands	29.112	10.238	53.964	32.813
Southern Western	29.112	10.521	58.279	32.792
South Wales	29.112	10.469	53.826	33.285
Average Cap	29.112	10.314	52.967	33.206