Energy

Spoonie_Turtle

Ildhund said:

Spoonie_Turtle said:

It's like no supplier offering Economy 10 except those already on it with old meters ...

That doesn't sound right. Those being relieved of their RTS systems in Northern Scotland by OVO have a bewildering choice of ToU tariffs including Economy 7, Economy 9 and Economy 10 once their smart meter is in place. What may be available in the South West region (22) will be different. It depends on the DNO (NGED) what they're prepared to support. 
  

Link is broken, unfortunately.

If people are being offered very similar alternatives for their existing tariffs that would be great.  We've only heard of people losing their tariff timings and being stuck on the single block Economy 7 (or sometimes split but the break only being early hours, e.g. offpeak 11.30-01.30, 02.30-07.30 - nothing like Economy 10 or 'comfort' tariff hours).

Gerry1

Lots of electricity plans at https://plans.ovoenergy.com including Economy 9 and Economy10.

Ildhund

Scot_39 said:

That Ovo link doesn't seem to work for me - anyone else.

Oops - sorry. It should have been Our prices | OVO Energy, and just to be sure, https://plans.ovoenergy.com/

EssexHebridean

Am I missing something here? It looks as though the OP already has split E7?  Is that necessarily going to change when the meter is changed, and even if it does, they will still be getting 7 hours so I'm not too sure whether they will actually be left at any real disadvantage? 

Scot_39

EssexHebridean said:

Am I missing something here? It looks as though the OP already has split E7?  Is that necessarily going to change when the meter is changed, and even if it does, they will still be getting 7 hours so I'm not too sure whether they will actually be left at any real disadvantage? 

If it changes - and it has in past for at least 1 other posting here at least temporarily as meters came set for default 7hr block - it really depends on how they live and heat and possibly shower use if electric, not from tank.

And how the rts is splitting use.  And meter tariff.  My off peak rts was a meter and timeswitch - driving 2 bespoke circuits - so cheap heatwise rate only applied to NSH and hw tank.  Others rts time witches do switch and switch single meter rate.

The OP fears losing the times - so must think gains from it.

Possible gains like

The OP currently has off peak from 1030pm - 00:30 am  so could use it to boost say bedrooms before bedtime.  Or charge nsh to do so.

My nsh regularly only charge for somtimes less than 1 hr - but 3 times per day on my split e10 (common in some regions, whereas other regions are a single 10hr block).

And has, because of the break with 3 hrs peak to 3:30am  - off peak again in morning to 8:30 am. 

So this maybe covers breakfast, quick heating boost in am not from stored heat, say like a bathroom towel rail or kitchen heater,  maybe even an electric shower if shower not tank fed etc.

Maybe only on a few kWh per day - but it all adds up.

There was at least one post from a user on a split 2,2,5 deal who lost it initially with new meter fitted going to the other regional ddefaulttiming --single block fixed 7 hrs - but his supplier reinstated it to the original afterwards after a few calls, possibly formal complaint. 

You would need to actually check each suppliers individual policy - with old rts setup it's going to be smart soon at almost all.