Power company that I can pay monthly

[Mercdriver]

Anyone know which power companies allow payment monthly based on meter reading.

Sick to death of arguing about DD payments, always too much, I am not a moneylender.

If I have a smart meter I want to pay every month based on the readings from smart meter.

Estimated bills are not acceptable, must be based on meter or if the meter is faulty! On a reading supplied by me.

I do not care if bill is £30 or £300 I will just pay it

[98elise]

Surely that's an option with comparison sites?

[RGG]

Take a look at Octopus.

They give you control of your DD payments.

[Byker28i]

Our welsh home is Utility Warehouse. We pay in arears for what we used the previous month

[Mercdriver]

98elise said:

Surely that's an option with comparison sites?

Yes I thought so too but not able to select that option I think, might be wrong


Cannot even find option to have a smart meter installed

[anonymous-user]

https://www.edfenergy.com/help-support/faq/direct-...

I do this with EDF currently.
Based on Smart Meter in my case.
Naff all in Summer, £300 in December!
I prefer to pay for what I use.

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RGG said:

Take a look at Octopus.

They give you control of your DD payments.

Our Octopus account bills us by direct debit, monthly in arrears for the full amount.

[cliffords]

I had this too albeit it's not the lowest tariff.
The unit price wad higher paying this way

[LandieMark]

I'm on monthly variable direct debits based on usage with Octopus.

It took some explaining and finally getting them to do this as they were initially insistent on me building a credit for winter by attempting to take roughly double what I actually use.

I just kept cancelling their increases until they eventually responded properly to my emails requesting variable DD.

[NDA]

Mercdriver said:

Anyone know which power companies allow payment monthly based on meter reading.

OVO.

I pay based on the meter reading - no DD or anything else.

[119]

Ive never paid more than what the meter reading states.

[ziggy328]

I'm with EDF - I enter both gas and electric meter readings on their website monthly, then pay what's due by credit card. No direct debits and the small added advantage of 45 to 60 days of free credit.

[Mercdriver]

Sorted, thanks for all the replies

[RichB]

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[anonymous-user]

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James6112 said:

https://www.edfenergy.com/help-support/faq/direct-...

I do this with EDF currently.
Based on Smart Meter in my case.
Naff all in Summer, £300 in December!
I prefer to pay for what I use.

I have a (low use) business tarrif with EDF and it was working via a smart meter and paying each month what was used, however earlier this year, according to the on line invoices there was a 'change of supply' on 29 June (not instigated by me) and since then the smart meter readings have not been used and estimated meter readings have been used (over estimated of course). I'm still awaiting a call back from EDF so I can discusss this with them to find out what is going on.

[WPA]

James6112 said:

https://www.edfenergy.com/help-support/faq/direct-...

I do this with EDF currently.
Based on Smart Meter in my case.
Naff all in Summer, £300 in December!
I prefer to pay for what I use.

When I asked EDF they told me it was not an option (not sure why) so I pay a fixed amount per month £75 and I am currently £490 in credit.

My current 3yr fixed tariff ends in 24 days so I need to make the decision to switch or stay with them