Energy Bills...that time again

How much is your electric, per kWh, TG?

16.46p no standing charge, in the last 12mths we have used 1.128kWh I might be wrong but if you don't use a lot of electric you don't have much in the way of bartering for a better rate. We pay by variable DD every 3 months, which suits us as we only have to provide a reading every 3 months. If we went to monthly DD they would require a reading monthly, one company would save us a few pounds a year if we moved to monthly. 

IanH we average around 11kWh a day I think. We don't have a smart meter but I do check it from time to time over a 24hr hour period.

Something wrong there TG, if you have used only 1128kwh in 12 months.  That is only an average of 3-4 kwh per day.

Something wrong there TG, if you have used only 1128kwh in 12 months.  That is only an average of 3-4 kwh per day.

I'm not counting the time out of house Kj, when at home we average 11kWh at this time of the year.  During summer it will be hardly any.

My annual is around 1700Kw. but I have solar panels which significantly reduce it in summer. Winter months is aroud 8Kw pd.

How much is your electric, per kWh, TG?

16.46p no standing charge, in the last 12mths we have used 1.128kWh I might be wrong but if you don't use a lot of electric you don't have much in the way of bartering for a better rate. We pay by variable DD every 3 months, which suits us as we only have to provide a reading every 3 months. If we went to monthly DD they would require a reading monthly, one company would save us a few pounds a year if we moved to monthly. 

That's quite a good price, TG.  Very unusual that there is no standing charge.

We pay about 13.something per kWh for electric, but there is also a standing charge, so similar overall.

Ours is fixed to September 2018 though, which we like in these times of rising energy prices.

16.46 per Kw would result in me paying a higher charge than my current Kw rate plus standing charge. My true rate is just under 14p per Kw fixed for a year.

peedee

16.46 per Kw would result in me paying a higher charge than my current Kw rate plus standing charge. My true rate is just under 14p per Kw fixed for a year.

peedee

That's a good rate peedee, we did various comparisons and couldn't get a better rate. I will try again in a week or so might even phone the company and see if I can get it down a bit, but I suspect because we use so little we won't.

Cyber we have 10 solar panels so our summer usage is very small.

Hi all, have just got off the phone speaking to our electricity supplier and they have confirmed that we are on the best tariff for our consumption. The one we are on is variable standard, DD payments. This benifits by not having a daily standing charge, because we are away so often they say this works out better, if we went to a fixed rate until the end of 2017 it would cost us £46 more and the 2018 fixed deal would cost us £52 more, because both of these have daily standing charges.

I've signed up with MSE to be alerted if the tariffs change and doing a comparison on his site it tells me I'm already on the best. So for now at least I can sit back and not worry again until the New Year.

It really irritates me when they talk about the cost per year.......instead of the cost per kWh. 

Would anyone discuss the cost of petrol per year......or the cost of bread per year??

All this does is help them to disguise the true price that they charge.