look out piano
Striker
The standing charges are the real killer for low users like me, they're robbing us all blind.
Energy Prices - are they taking the piss???
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small mythos
Central Defender
The standing charges need a proper looking at , they just seem to put them up because they can .
The huge hike due to the collapse of other companies never really was costed out for us and should have been more or less a one off as all the extra customers they took on were basically all connected to the network anyway and once the admin was sorted that was it .
The standing charge always seems to get ignored when the headlines always are about the price hikes .
anth
Winger
looking back at my bills from May 2021, i was paying 8.99p standing charge for electric and gas or £33 each per year
Now I am paying 47.553p for electric and 27.128p for gas, or £173.55 and £99 per year
That's an increase from £66 to £272.55 per year in less than 2 years before you turn anything on. A £313% jump. Absolutely nuts.
look out piano
Striker
I'm paying nearly a quid a day for both.
The energy regulator Ofgem has threatened The Times and one of its journalists with criminal sanctions after they exposed how agents working for British Gas were routinely breaking into customers’ homes.
The watchdog has sent letters to the newspaper and Paul Morgan-Bentley, its head of investigations, threatening unlimited fines if they do not hand over all the reporter’s relevant materials, including confidential notes and undercover footage.
The watchdog has sent letters to the newspaper and Paul Morgan-Bentley, its head of investigations, threatening unlimited fines if they do not hand over all the reporter’s relevant materials, including confidential notes and undercover footage.
Wild Card
Winger
Hopefully the times will reply with a giant cartoon middle finger for the corrupt arseholes.
42
Striker
Just had an email from shell.
Your electricity rates are changing from 31.871p to 31.924p per kWh. Your electricity standing charge per day is changing from 49.93p to 57.03p.
So the caps still the same but the prices still manage to go up a little.
Standing charge is a joke mind
So energy also sent an email saying the same,
Gas Standing charge 28.47p per day 29.10p per day
Unit rate 10.19p per kWh 10.22p per kW
It wouldn't surprise me if this £2,500 average cap is in effect increasing due to average usage reducing thereby maintaining the average usage being £2,500
I still feel there is more to come from the government's dealings with Octopus. Went from new kid on the block to absolutely huge in just a few years and it could still go horribly wrong.
www.thetimes.co.uk
Octopus’s £3bn Bulb payment ‘at risk’
The bailout of Bulb is estimated to have cost taxpayers more than £3 billion, but this could be reduced to £240 million when Octopus Energy repays the billions
www.thetimes.co.uk
Wild Card
Winger
Not sure how I feel about this.
Obviously any price reduction will be welcome but in reality are people going to want to arse on with two energy companies every year? I'm sure you can or could do it now but the companies make it more expensive. Who is to say they won't just keep it the same?
Shack
Midfield
Don't think it's on about two energy companies. It's referring to how each is priced. Currently green electricity generation is priced at how much it costs to generate from Gas. As gas prices shot up so did the electricity coats. I think it's referring to decoupling the two.
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Wild Card
Winger
That makes more sense.
Lord Nigle
Midfield
If possible it would be useful to look at alternatives to using gas at home. The likes of storage batteries,Solar, smart immersion heaters can help reduce costs.
BG changed my dd fro electric from 300 to 491 yesterday . Currently trying to phone them . I'm generating half mine from solar now .
cfg
Winger
Last summer all my hot water was from solar, expect to switch to solar for hot water in a couple of weeks and only use gas for hobs. Apart from about 05kWh a day from the grid all my electricity has been solar for about two weeks now.
Phoned them and got them to put it back down to £300
Explained I have solar and batteries and even at 300 I'll be going well into credit
Explained I have solar and batteries and even at 300 I'll be going well into credit
Roaring Chubby
Winger
Is anyone seeing tariffs reducing in price to reflect the lower wholesale prices that we keep hearing about? Or are we looking at another winter ahead of us with daft bills?
Martin F
Striker
I have an economy 7 meter - They've just lowered my night rate and raised my day rate. No doubt they'll reverse that towards the end of the year, must think we're stupid.
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