Thread: Power prices, gas prices- ouch or Solar perhaps?

Just be careful if you are using that government energy watch website. It appears to be a crock of merde to me. I logged on to see if I could get the $$$ they are promising if you get a free quote ... I uploaded my latest bill. And it come back with a page full of the best offers and the promised savings per year. I opened the cheapest off and compared it to the bill I'd uploaded. The feed-in rate was identical, the daily charges were identical ... the "peak power" (the only thing I used) was more expensive.

NOWHERE DOES IT SAY .... STAY WITH YOUR CURRENT OFFER IT IS CHEAPER. They must use "guestimates" to tell you have much you will save for the year.... WTF?? we can directly compare the charges. I said the same to my parents, they went and checked and the offer they were offered that was cheaper than there suggested currently annual bill ..... was also more expensive if you compared directly the power charges.

I urge anyone looking at any site, do your homework. You would think a government website could get it right I'm through Tango if anyone is interested .... and they didn't even rate a mention over all the more expensive billing providers suggested on the crappy government site.

seeya
Shane L.

Originally Posted by DoubleChevron

........You would think a government website could get it right....

You are joking, surely?

Originally Posted by DoubleChevron

Just be careful if you are using that government energy watch website. It appears to be a crock of merde to me. I logged on to see if I could get the $$$ they are promising if you get a free quote ... I uploaded my latest bill. And it come back with a page full of the best offers and the promised savings per year. I opened the cheapest off and compared it to the bill I'd uploaded. The feed-in rate was identical, the daily charges were identical ... the "peak power" (the only thing I used) was more expensive.

NOWHERE DOES IT SAY .... STAY WITH YOUR CURRENT OFFER IT IS CHEAPER. They must use "guestimates" to tell you have much you will save for the year.... WTF?? we can directly compare the charges. I said the same to my parents, they went and checked and the offer they were offered that was cheaper than there suggested currently annual bill ..... was also more expensive if you compared directly the power charges.

I urge anyone looking at any site, do your homework. You would think a government website could get it right I'm through Tango if anyone is interested .... and they didn't even rate a mention over all the more expensive billing providers suggested on the crappy government site.

seeya
Shane L.

Absolutely no different to mortgage, health insurance and car insurance comparison sites - the initial search does not necessarily give the best price - that only happens when you actually apply.

Yep, I checked the site and my current supplier was cheaper after I switched plans. Just got the elec bill and it's down $70 .

Since all you electricity (Most?) comes from coal and OIL and GAS, you cannot escape your 'Carbon Footprint'

guessing it's the next little lurk to control and bankrupt us...

See here for a primer on this... Your "Carbon Footprint" is a LIE (and we all fell for it) - YouTube

Originally Posted by superquag

Since all you electricity (Most?) comes from coal and OIL and GAS, you cannot escape your 'Carbon Footprint'

guessing it's the next little lurk to control and bankrupt us...

See here for a primer on this... Your "Carbon Footprint" is a LIE (and we all fell for it) - YouTube

Couldn't log on to that................ there's a stainless colander over the phone.

DL

If the same as the UK government comparison site it is designed to encourage you to switch as they see the inertia of people as a bigger problem. This being a tool to attempt to change habits which they hope then make the retailers offer keener prices. So the calculations done in the background are not always ‘correct’ due to a weighting applied.

Commercial comparison sites can have interesting definitions of best price which may or may not be influenced by the commission they receive from the supplier

We're trying a different way to heat water, which may also lower our power bill.
We have just installed a power diverter which reads our solar production and household demand.
So all our hot water will be heated using surplus solar generated during the day, above what is needed to run the house, since you don't get much for putting it back into the grid.
So that's 6.8Kw of solar panels running a house and heating a 250 litre Rheem stainless steel tank.
Early days yet but so far there is plenty of hot water.
If it doesn't heat, maybe because of multiple overcast days, there is an override button to use grid power to heat the water, but hopefully we'll never need it.
We do have a separate off-peak circuit to operate after 10pm, but why would we pay to heat water if we can get it free from solar?
So the next bill could be interesting.