Big standing charges on half-hourly CT business meter

[biggiles]

Might be a bit niche, but PH has some very wide experience!

For historical reasons, we have a CT half-hourly meter for a business property. It's massively over-specced for our needs, and the "ASC" has been downgraded to 25kva from 200kva as we aren't intensive energy users.

Our standing charge is near £8 per day plus annual MOP costs. Which seems a lot. We get these rates through an energy broker we have used for several years.

Is the only way to get off these huge standing charges to replace the CT meter with "whole-current" metering? Replacing the meter would cost over £6k (madness for changing some wires and a box over) but would pay back in a few years.

Am I missing something here? Is there something helpful in the future "Market-Wide Half-Hourly Settlement (MHHS)" reform?

Has anyone successfully replaced their CT meter with a smaller whole-current meter?

[Mr Overheads]

Sorry missed this one. If you can send me a copy of a recent invoice and the energy contract that will give me all the details I need and I can look into some options for you.

[ChocolateFrog]

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[biggiles]

Thanks for the offer Mr Overheads (and others).

We have large TNUoS charges, and it's only going to get worse.

This is unpleasant reading: https://www.smart-energy.uk/tnuos-standing-charge-...

So I'm downgrading now, quite a lot of faff, they don't make it particularly easy, but I really don't want to be paying £2.6k per annum, plus other charges in the future. The downgrade should pay for itself fairly quickly.

[Mr Overheads]

biggiles said:

Thanks for the offer Mr Overheads (and others).

We have large TNUoS charges, and it's only going to get worse.

This is unpleasant reading: https://www.smart-energy.uk/tnuos-standing-charge-...

So I'm downgrading now, quite a lot of faff, they don't make it particularly easy, but I really don't want to be paying £2.6k per annum, plus other charges in the future. The downgrade should pay for itself fairly quickly.

Remember once you give up capacity, it's very hard for you or a future occupier to get it back.

[biggiles]

Mr Overheads said:

biggiles said:

Thanks for the offer Mr Overheads (and others).

We have large TNUoS charges, and it's only going to get worse.

This is unpleasant reading: https://www.smart-energy.uk/tnuos-standing-charge-...

So I'm downgrading now, quite a lot of faff, they don't make it particularly easy, but I really don't want to be paying £2.6k per annum, plus other charges in the future. The downgrade should pay for itself fairly quickly.

Remember once you give up capacity, it's very hard for you or a future occupier to get it back.

Good point. Fortunately we are in a position where we don't need anything near what I know is available. We've already dropped the ASC down hugely.