Join the club and pay less when switching

MikeJXE

Just spotted this on my local council website 

What do you think ? 

https://www.nwleics.gov.uk/pages/switch

Gerry1

Many councils used to promote the iChoosr scheme before the energy crisis when everyone used to change suppliers frequently.

I signed up for some of the auctions because it sounded like a good idea.  However, it never came up with anything better than the comparison sites so I left.

There's no harm in giving it a whirl, who knows, it might work for you.

debitcardmayhem

I wan’t to know how these schemes can guarantee that the electricity coming to the consumer is actually provided by renewable suppliers. Do you need a “smart meter” that discriminates the electrons coming in and sends them back if not from renewable sources? Sounds like another hare brained council scheme , many(or is that all) of which have failed and left their council tax payers paying for them.

Gerry1

debitcardmayhem said:

I want to know how these schemes can guarantee that the electricity coming to the consumer is actually provided by renewable suppliers.scheme.

Same principle that allows a choice of supplier (hypothecation). 

If you pay in £100 in coins to your bank account on a Friday, they keep it safe in a big vault over the weekend and you withdraw £100 on a Monday you won't get the same coins back.  But it doesn't matter, it's still 'your' money, it doesn't matter if some of the coins were paid in by a dodgy character, you won't become tainted.

You'd need to be more concerned that the 'renewable' label is down to some clever accounting / smoke and mirrors with certificates.

northernstar007

i get prices off ichoose for years no idea how i get on there list
i get them to compare but always cheaper going direct to supplier, i just had a offer last week and was above what octopus fix and it was BG the supplier
seems like these are just middlemen and bumping up the price

MikeJXE

debitcardmayhem said:

I wan’t to know how these schemes can guarantee that the electricity coming to the consumer is actually provided by renewable suppliers. Do you need a “smart meter” that discriminates the electrons coming in and sends them back if not from renewable sources? Sounds like another hare brained council scheme , many(or is that all) of which have failed and left their council tax payers paying for them.

It’s a myth 

Clean energy and dirty energy are both in the same pipe/cable, you get what you get 

The question was more Is it possible too get a better deal if a group ask rather than a single