Energy bill increases

[ianrauk]

Heard nothing about those of us on fixed deals - I assume our prices won't go up until the end of our existing contracts - September in my case?

I locked my self into a 2 years fixed deal with EDF only last October.

 

[Mike_P]

My fixed ran out and price comparison sites had no alternatives available. Now get an email saying going up by 130%

 

[ColinJ]

British Gas texted me first thing today to ask me to submit a reading. I was having a lie-in so didn't do that. They texted me again from another number a few hours later, asking me very nicely to do it!

 

[Scaleyback]

I locked my self into a 2 years fixed deal with EDF only last October.

Good luck to you and others who took the chance and took a fixed deal.
Of course your fixed deal would have cost more than a variable deal at the time you signed but no doubt under the circumstances you will be in credit. Just prepare for the shock when your fixed deal expires and you 'inherit' all the recent prices rises in one lump sum.

 

[mjr]

British Gas texted me first thing today to ask me to submit a reading. I was having a lie-in so didn't do that. They texted me again from another number a few hours later, asking me very nicely to do it!

Isn't everyone waiting until after 10pm and gambling on the websites staying up?

 

[MontyVeda]

Isn't everyone waiting until after 10pm and gambling on the websites staying up?

Nah, submitted mine this morning and my mother's this afternoon.

Half a day's usage is not going to make much difference.

I did get an email back from Terry at EonNext, thanking me for the reading and apologising for the website being down. I didn't even try the website. I sent them via email last time i did a reading

 

[mjr]

Nah, submitted mine this morning and my mother's this afternoon.

Half a day's usage is not going to make much difference. [...]

If your central heating is powered off the mains and you're enjoying the blizzards we are, half a day's usage is probably a quid or two increase, just for submitting at a different time, so if you've nothing better to do then...

Also, my rates change 2nd April not 1st. So I'll read the meter tomorrow.

 

[mjr]

E.On blames MoneySavingExpert's Martin Lewis for their websites crashing, rather than their own slothful smart meter roll-out, then apologises:

View: https://twitter.com/SamMcFaul/status/1509486845150834689


View: https://twitter.com/SamMcFaul/status/1509535927911260164

 

[oldwheels]

I have been trying to send my meter readings to SSE but the site goes to the second last step and them just stops. Overloaded I presume so will just have to keep trying but at least I seem to able to give the date the reading was taken.

 

[ColinJ]

Isn't everyone waiting until after 10pm and gambling on the websites staying up?

I did fleetingly consider adding quite a bit onto the cheaper rate reading, which would mean less gas being counted at the higher cost later, but my wretched sense of honesty kicked in so I sent them the actual number.

 

[ClichéGuevara]

I have been trying to send my meter readings to SSE but the site goes to the second last step and them just stops. Overloaded I presume so will just have to keep trying but at least I seem to able to give the date the reading was taken.

You can get an extra 9 days at the lower rate if you like.

"If you're having trouble logging in to your account, don't worry, you have until 9 April to give us your meter readings online for 31 March. Smart meter customers don't need to do anything as your readings will automatically be shared with us."

 

[mjr]

I did fleetingly consider adding quite a bit onto the cheaper rate reading, which would mean less gas being counted at the higher cost later, but my wretched sense of honesty kicked in so I sent them the actual number.

I suspect the retailers will be asking the meter readers to check any unusual readings soon and now would really not be a good time to be accused of fraud and put onto an expensive prepayment meter!

 

[oldwheels]

You can get an extra 9 days at the lower rate if you like.

"If you're having trouble logging in to your account, don't worry, you have until 9 April to give us your meter readings online for 31 March. Smart meter customers don't need to do anything as your readings will automatically be shared with us."

I normally read my meters every Saturday morning just to keep tabs on my consumption but do not usually send them anywhere.

 

[ianrauk]

Good luck to you and others who took the chance and took a fixed deal.
Of course your fixed deal would have cost more than a variable deal at the time you signed but no doubt under the circumstances you will be in credit. Just prepare for the shock when your fixed deal expires and you 'inherit' all the recent prices rises in one lump sum.

Actually no. The deal I signed was lower then the variable deal with both Bulb who I left and EDF who I signed up with.
I'm certainly under no illusion of a huge raise in payments in two years once my current deal runs out.

 

[ColinJ]

I suspect the retailers will be asking the meter readers to check any unusual readings soon and now would really not be a good time to be accused of fraud and put onto an expensive prepayment meter!

If they would just repair my smart meter then I wouldn't need to be submitting readings myself anyway!

They had 2 attempts and then gave up...