What is a likely wait for an electricity meter change?

Apr 01, 2014 3 Replies

A non-indigenous administratively-inept friend who buys electricity from Th e Utility Warehouse (TUW) has at present a single white electricity meter w hich is fed with pseudo-money by inserting a blue key. Apparently that sys tem charges about 16p/kWh, 24 hours per day.



Two or three months ago, we asked TUW by letter for the metering to be chan ged to Economy 7, which is expected to reduce the rate to about 6p/kWh from about 00:30 GMT to 07:30 GMT. We sent a reminder letter to TUW a month ag o.



But nothing has yet happened, apart from TUW paying in the deposit cheque.



My friend has, or can find, no little TUW booklet or similar about service response times; I have an EDF booklet, but it does not cover the case.



What response time should we expect / are we entitled to - by reference to any or all of TUW's material, that of another supplier, or Ofgem etc.?


Good luck is all I can say! I gave TUW the boot from two sets of commercial premises solely as their communications and admin were atrocious. The few coppers saved by their tariff wasn't worth the hassle that they caused me.

Andrew

Which is fine if you have fairly hefty use in that period, storeage heaters etc. Remember the rate for the other 17 hours is normally significantly higher than normal flat rates... I pay:

14.2p/kWHr (£00.00 Standing Charge) 11.142p/kWHr (£76.47 Standing Charge) 6.02/16.08p/kWHr (£65.70 Standing Charge)

(+ 5% VAT)

There are standards and response times that the supplies are supposed to meet, I'd have a dig about on the Ofgem site.

It is a very affable site; but it had not revealed any solid facts on the matter.

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