Electricity supplier?
Electricity supplier?
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red_slr

Original Poster:

20,833 posts

219 months

Friday 4th August 2017
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Anyone got any suggestions for a decent electricity supplier? We use about £2,500 worth a year so not massive but Scottish Power just take the mick with their billing and meter reads had enough now after 10 years of messing about.

Thanks!

Zoon

7,305 posts

151 months

Friday 4th August 2017
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208 a month for electric?
What are you using it for, commercial gardening? wink

Edit: Money saving expert collective switch is usually pretty good.

Mr Overheads

2,632 posts

206 months

Friday 4th August 2017
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None of them are perfect, they go through peaks and troughs of service too. Personally I would avoid Extra, Dual, Scottish Power, BGB.

E-on and SSE are 2 of the better 'big' suppliers for Business supplies (from a service/admin) view point.

Send me a pm and I'll send you a link where you can search prices. I don't think mods will let me post the link here because we'll earn micro and I mean micro commissions if you take out a contract via the link i.e. it might buy me a pint.

anonymous-user

84 months

Friday 4th August 2017
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I am using the "Flipper" service - you give them your details and pay them something like £25 per year and they keep the market under regular review and switch you automatically as and when new or better deals come along. They (say) they don't get paid a commission from the supplier either so in theory it should be work out in the customer's favour.

As they have your details, they deal with the switching, setting up a new account with the new supplier etc.

I've been with them 5 months and I'm on my second supplier already.

SantaBarbara

3,244 posts

138 months

Friday 4th August 2017
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Have you got night Storage radiators?

singlecoil

35,834 posts

276 months

Friday 4th August 2017
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Add BES to the avoid list.

Mr Overheads

2,632 posts

206 months

Friday 4th August 2017
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singlecoil said:
Add BES to the avoid list.
Absolutely, worst one out there by a country mile.

red_slr

Original Poster:

20,833 posts

219 months

Friday 4th August 2017
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Zoon said:
208 a month for electric?
What are you using it for, commercial gardening? wink

Edit: Money saving expert collective switch is usually pretty good.
We have a depot with workshops etc.

red_slr

Original Poster:

20,833 posts

219 months

Friday 4th August 2017
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SantaBarbara said:
Have you got night Storage radiators?
No we don't.

red_slr

Original Poster:

20,833 posts

219 months

Friday 4th August 2017
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Mr Overheads said:
None of them are perfect, they go through peaks and troughs of service too. Personally I would avoid Extra, Dual, Scottish Power, BGB.

E-on and SSE are 2 of the better 'big' suppliers for Business supplies (from a service/admin) view point.

Send me a pm and I'll send you a link where you can search prices. I don't think mods will let me post the link here because we'll earn micro and I mean micro commissions if you take out a contract via the link i.e. it might buy me a pint.
PM inbound.

Jockman

18,414 posts

190 months

Friday 4th August 2017
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We use EON. Took a 3 year fix 12 months ago. Impressed so far.

We use circa £3,900 + vat per month (half hour meter) so it matters a lot that we get it right.

matjk

1,112 posts

170 months

Friday 4th August 2017
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We use Opus Energy, been very good so fair,

coetzeeh

2,891 posts

266 months

Friday 4th August 2017
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Opus Energy is great for your spend size. Done business with them for many years.

bob-in-toon

423 posts

235 months

Saturday 5th August 2017
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browntrout

14 posts

112 months

Sunday 6th August 2017
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Don't let opus automatically renew your contract. Our rates jumped 50%. Total scam on auto renew.

Zoon

7,305 posts

151 months

Monday 7th August 2017
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red_slr said:
We have a depot with workshops etc.
I see, thought you were talking domestic supply for a minute.

red_slr

Original Poster:

20,833 posts

219 months

Tuesday 2nd July 2019
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Well, quick update. We went with extra. Who went bankrupt and sold our account back to Scottish Power!

They have sent us a bill and the unit price is 2.5x the rate we were paying. Spoke to them and they say they are working within the rules set out by OFGEM.

We are only a small company but I cant imagine a big factory somewhere that uses say £10k a quarter getting a bill for £25k.

Mr Overheads

2,632 posts

206 months

Tuesday 2nd July 2019
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red_slr said:
Well, quick update. We went with extra. Who went bankrupt and sold our account back to Scottish Power!

They have sent us a bill and the unit price is 2.5x the rate we were paying. Spoke to them and they say they are working within the rules set out by OFGEM.

We are only a small company but I cant imagine a big factory somewhere that uses say £10k a quarter getting a bill for £25k.
When a supplier goes bust, OFGEM can transfer you you to a new supplier. BUT you are then free to leave the new supplier chosen for you and you would have received a letter outlining the steps you can take.

And you are wrong, a £10k a month customer will get a £25k bill.

The energy rates have gone up since 2017 so the rate offered is a current market rate, it's by no means tightly competitive but it's also not a terrible rate, just mid-market.



red_slr

Original Poster:

20,833 posts

219 months

Tuesday 2nd July 2019
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When I said "I cant imagine" I did not mean they wont get that bill.... I meant I cant imagine where they would find the money from, or what conversation they would be having etc..


red_slr

Original Poster:

20,833 posts

219 months

Tuesday 2nd July 2019
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Mr Overheads said:
The energy rates have gone up since 2017 so the rate offered is a current market rate, it's by no means tightly competitive but it's also not a terrible rate, just mid-market.
So what unit price should we be looking at?

Our last product with Extra was a 5 year fixed rate.....