Soldato
I'd recommend Octopus Energy, we're on their Agile tariff so every 30 mins is a different rate. Works for us since we have no children we often cook etc outside of peak times. At points during lockdown we got paid to use electricity.
Man of Honour
About 2 months ago we finally decided to go with Look After My Bills and they reckon they will save me £347.
We'll see.
We'll see.
Caporegime
Edit - ignore, quoted the wrong person.
Caporegime
Looking at getting either Agile or Go as I've got an electric car arriving next month and both are better than our current Bulb tariff.
Soldato
I switched away from Scottish Power because they couldn't offer me anything like that, not even close. Maybe it's a new one as that sounds more reasonable, and similar to my previous pricing.
Went to Avro instead on their Simple and SuperGlow tarriff.
Elec Standing: 15.750p per day
Elec Unit Rate: 13.650p per kWh
Gas Standing: 15.750p per day
Gas Unit Rate: 2.405p per kWh
Soldato
Yep I've got an EV hence the switch. Was on Go originally, and may revert back soon as winter demand is higher and supply lower. Good thing is you can, both are just rolling contracts.
Like I said we got paid to charge it over the summer.
I just got similar from them. Around £95 for a one bed flat under the new one which seems crazy to me. I don't know what is using up so much electricity. The hot water heater is the only thing I can think of so need to sort that out (open to recommendations for an immersion heater timer if anyone has one
).Putting a timer on a electric immersion heater shouldn’t make much, if any difference to its cost. The tank will still lose the same amount of heat in the same period.
Immersion heaters are close to 100% efficient so having it turn on and off throughout the day isn’t going to decrease it’s energy use. A fully heated tank will lose more than a partially heated one but if the system is modern the losses should be very small either way.
E.g. if the tank is losing 3kw/day through heat loss, it won’t make much difference if you heat it all in one go or over the course of the day. To have any meaningful reduction in its cost you need to use less hot water, reduce the tanks losses (by insulating it more) or switched to an economy 7 type tariff and shift all your heating to the night but you’ll need storage heaters for that.
Direct electric heating is the most expensive way you can do it currently.
Immersion heaters are close to 100% efficient so having it turn on and off throughout the day isn’t going to decrease it’s energy use. A fully heated tank will lose more than a partially heated one but if the system is modern the losses should be very small either way.
E.g. if the tank is losing 3kw/day through heat loss, it won’t make much difference if you heat it all in one go or over the course of the day. To have any meaningful reduction in its cost you need to use less hot water, reduce the tanks losses (by insulating it more) or switched to an economy 7 type tariff and shift all your heating to the night but you’ll need storage heaters for that.
Direct electric heating is the most expensive way you can do it currently.
Soldato
Quoting monthly DD payments doesn't really mean much, unless it's based on actual usage and you provide readings that confirm what you are paying is accurate.
Being a new build i have smart meters installed so the £41 is rounded up so its as accurate as can be. I am in credit by a smallish amount which is fine as winter is coming so the credit will more than likely disappear due to have the heating on for an hour or so at night after work.
I've recently jumped ship from Utility Point to Green and I've had no issues so far. If you ever need to speak with them, their live chat is available from 7am-11pm every day, including Sunday - not bad in my opinion.
My prices have gone down by almost 5%. While not much, Utility Point wanted to charge me a little more, so I thought that was the right time to jump ship rather than line somebody's pockets.
My prices have gone down by almost 5%. While not much, Utility Point wanted to charge me a little more, so I thought that was the right time to jump ship rather than line somebody's pockets.
Ooof yeah that is shocking, i'd expect a family of 4 in a 3-bed house to be using that. When we were renting in a 2 bed flat with bulb (all electric) i think we were averaging about £50 a month.
How are you finding OTM? As someone else said, MSE has them down as a "watch out", but trustpilot has them down as pretty good.
I'd never take a Trustpilot rating at face value. Too many companies incentivise customers to leave positive reviews, or promise to refund them after they leave a good review.
Caporegime
Those that have switched to Octopus Go, how does it work?
Looks like you switch to one of their standard tariffs for a bit and have to ask for them to come install a smartmeter before switching to Go?
Looks like you switch to one of their standard tariffs for a bit and have to ask for them to come install a smartmeter before switching to Go?
Soldato
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I've been with them since April. It's a pretty basic service (no App, no smart meters, a very basic website) but trouble-free so far, and they were significantly cheaper when I was changing contracts.
Cheers, the one i was looking at was a variable tariff with no fixed term or leaving penalties. So could always give them a punt and if they are **** then can just switch elsewhere.
Soldato
I already had a smart meter which was installed by my previous supplier.
It was pretty simple if I recall, I switched to them online, waited till my go live date, then there was a form on their site to switch to the Go tariff. Filled that in, they did a few checks that they were receiving the meter reads correctly every 30 mins, and then a couple of days later I got an email with a link to complete the switch.
Man of Honour
Had a similar email, but higher than that still. I’m £95 in credit and using about £70/month and they also want to increase my DD to £115. Octopus 12month fix is cheaper and even their flexible one so will be switching this weekend.
worth checking anyone else out?
My prices in London, I’m going to have to use a shedload of gas saving 0.03 of a penny for that to mean anything :
worth checking anyone else out?
My prices in London, I’m going to have to use a shedload of gas saving 0.03 of a penny for that to mean anything :
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