Fuse Energy

Gerry1

bristolleedsfan said:

Gerry1 said:

Robin9 said:

What has your date of birth got to do with electricity tariffs ?

Presumably they're not bright enough to realise that using DoB breaks all the golden rules of passwords, e.g. that it should be known only by the user, can't easily be guessed, can easily be changed and should never be shared.

Plenty of application forms e.g savings/bank accounts ask for DOB. I do not think asking for DOB to get energy quote has any relevance to subsequent password that might be set up on a energy account.

The point is that potential customers are being asked, for no good reason, to disclose a shared password to an organisation they've never heard of.

Once you've given it to them you have no knowledge, let alone any control, over what they subsequently do with it.

elbison

Gerry1 said:

Not impressed.  You can't even get a quotation without installing the app and revealing your date of birth, and they don't support Economy 7 or other multi-rate meters.

If only there was an authority who would reglement this...

https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2023/07/energy-firms-asked-to-publish-all-tariff-info-after-plea-from-ma/

Once it asked me for my DOB I closed the app...

Gerry1

elbison said:

Gerry1 said:

Not impressed.  You can't even get a quotation without installing the app and revealing your date of birth, and they don't support Economy 7 or other multi-rate meters.

If only there was an authority who would reglement this...

The relatively new Ofgem CEO doesn't seem any better than the old one who went over to the other side.

Ofgem are still dozy, at best merely reactive once in a while.

avenue12

On the site it says they ask for your birthday so you can have free energy on that day!!

debitcardmayhem

avenue12 said:

On the site it says they ask for your birthday so you can have free energy on that day!!

Perhaps they ask you to light the candles after sunset😂

Qyburn

avenue12 said:

On the site it says they ask for your birthday so you can have free energy on that day!!

Does that mean they don't need the year?

Gerry1

Qyburn said:

avenue12 said:

On the site it says they ask for your birthday so you can have free energy on that day!!

Does that mean they don't need the year?

No, you need to give the year, and you mustn't be over 100.

QrizB

avenue12 said:

On the site it says they ask for your birthday so you can have free energy on that day!!

I'd better give them Mrs Q's birth date, then, as her birthday is in the depths of winter when we're using more energy

michaels

Anyone know what tariffs they are offering - any fixes or time of use tariffs?

bristolleedsfan

michaels said:

Anyone know what tariffs they are offering - any fixes or time of use tariffs?

Main tariff currently appears to be variable, electricity standing charge on average about 20% less, unit rate a little below energy cap maximum.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/money/23104911/new-energy-supplier-save-money-fuse-energy-ofgem/

"Right now, 29million customers on the standard variable tariff (SVT) pay roughly 30.1p per kilowatt hour (kWh) for electricity"

"A standing charge of 52.97p for electricity per day"

"But Fuse Energy's new tariff charges customers 29.31p per kWh for electricity and a daily standing charge of just 44.3p".