Eon Economy 18

Neptuneip

I am a landlord of an apartment in Ipswich which was built in 2005 with under floor heating it used a tariff called Domestic 18hr electric heating tariff supplied by Powergen (bought by Eon now Eon Next). I have always told my tenants not to change suppliers as this is the only company who do this tariff and if they did change the heating would not work correctly or as cost affective.

How it worked: Economy 18 supplied by Eon. It involves having multi-rate meter as the missing 6 hours are spread in 3 x 2 hour chunks during the day (in This case 7.30-9.30;16.30-18.30;22.30-0.30) but no electricity is supplied via that meter during those 6 hours. It supplies the underfloor heating and half of the water heating on Economy 18.

It now appears that eon next have discontinued this tariff and are charging my tenant the standard tariff for everything I can’t seem to find another company that supplies electricity for 18hr at a cheaper rate can any body help.

TheElectricCow

Suppliers supporting legacy tariffs, especially the less common ones like this, are becoming increasingly harder to come by as time goes on. By all accounts suppliers rarely like taking on new customers on tariffs like these and various posters here in the past have reported great difficulty in regaining a lost legacy tariffs - You may find it could end up easier (but not necessarily cheaper) to change the heating system to work with a different tariff than changing tariff to work with the heating system.

That said, EDF do have a "complex metering team" and are generally regarded as one of the better suppliers for legacy tariff support, so getting in touch with them might be worthwhile if you haven't already. Even if they don't offer an exact replacement tariff they may be able to advise on a workable solution
https://www.edfenergy.com/help-support/faq/tariffs-changing-tariff-and-swapping-your-meter-when-you-have-complex-meter-eg

Scot_39

A more targeted contact email was provided by another user  @PZ19 in another thread

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/80674704/#Comment_80674704


Not sure how open their legacy tariffs are for new customers, but they were still openly publishing regional tariff rate cards for likes of E10 and E2020 - the later 10 hrs overnight and all weekend iirc.