Electricity costs.

Someone has to pay all the FITs payments.

Bearing in mind you're selling your electricity back to the grid, how much more do you want. I'd have thought 20% more is a pretty good deal!

;-)

That's why he is upset, he doesn't get paid 20% more, its linked to RPI.

Try Bristol Energy.

I suggested to EDF that it was the monumental smart meter c*ck up and the new nuclear power station we all need to subsidise. I did also suggest that if they blamed it on brexit I'd smell a rat similar to the decimalisation and eu joining one that I remember very well. Sadly I have little choice as the cheaper companies don't like us blindies or indeed those with no gas. I'm hoping that their next quote based on an actual reading will be less of a guess. I can see myself going nocternal on economy 7 for everything soon. Brian

So I just emailed Bristol Energy to ask which region I fall into (on the London borders), their auto reply is that they hope to get back to me within 15 working days. Doesn't instil confidence does it!

Peter

It is what I have found. The increase applies to the unit price rather than the daily charge. It annoys me that it often takes extra effort to find the unit price. They (the government) want to confuse me by displaying a TCR.

See my earlier thread on "Building my own power station"

That's all I want to be able to find, unit price + daily rate. To get that it seems as if I have sell my soul by entering who I'm with, where I live (not just postcode but full address), contact details etc etc. Just tell me the rates!!

Whose daft idea was the TCR (Tariff Comparison Rate)?

Oh yes, Ofgem. Another of their ideas was to 'simplify' by reducing the numbers of tariffs. SSE Southern Electric immediately eliminated their prompt payment discount, costing me 3%. Apparently some suppliers just eliminated their cheaper tariffs.

I expect life to get worse as the government (T May) clearly has it in for those who have been doing as they have been told and regularly switching to the best deal.

Of course. She is the only one who is allowed to get the 'best deal possible' (har har).

Recently my introductory fixed tariff (with Avro) expired and they put me on standard variable. So I looked at their site to see what the options were. There were about a dozen different tariffs. I calculated which was the best for me, and contacted Avro to switch to it. Turned out that only *one* of them was available, and it was much more expensive than either the one that had just expired or the one I had asked to switch to.

What's the point of that?

They have just had an offer with a limit of 50,000 switchers. The offer expired a week or two ago. gas : daily standing charge = 18.38p, unit charge = 2.851p/kWh elec: daily standing charge = 22.49p, unit charge = 12,788p/kWh

In message , alan_m writes

I am now with the Co-op, having been transferred from the failed GBsupply. Current rate is :

daily standing charge 22.62p per day unit charge 9.4p/kWh

Which seems reasonable.

Not bad and beter than MSE which I also beat with:

nPower 17.26/day 10.92p/kWHr

I'll have to calculate to see which is best for my supply. Last month I used 537 so paid

nPower would have been

There must be a break even point somewhere. Our usage seems to fluctuate fairly wildly, anything from around 400 to 540 a month.

nPower slightly cheaper at our average consumption.

That is the only way to pick the best deal.

For comparison MSE

Eh? Thought MSE was supposed to be a good deal.

Er, your not comparing like with like.

Co-op:

MSE

Which tariff is that? I looked and it was..