£400 saving by swapping electricity supplier.

[Yale]

Annual saving.

Just swapped suppliers,easy enough,a phone call then notify them of the reading.

One of those things you don't get around to doing.

Domestic supply.

 

[Henarar]

I saved more than that with some jump lead clips on the transformer

 

[Derrick Hughes]

what a crazy system, you cant get a reduction unless you swop as your own supplier is not allowed to quote you a reduction , which block head made that up

 

[Dry Rot]

A mate of mine turned up at my door in July wanting to borrow all the electric heaters I had.

Apparently, he'd got one of those large magnets and stuck it on the side of his electricity meter and forgotten about it. The electric suppliers owed him money. He was desparately trying to get it back into debit!

He's dead now, so I can tell the story!

 

[ridger]

A mate of mine turned up at my door in July wanting to borrow all the electric heaters I had.

Apparently, he'd got one of those large magnets and stuck it on the side of his electricity meter and forgotten about it. The electric suppliers owed him money. He was desparately trying to get it back into debit!

He's dead now, so I can tell the story!

Did the heaters cook him?

 

[Dry Rot]

Did the heaters cook him?

I don't know, but I swear the story is true.

There are lots more stories about this character! He was a one off.

 

[llamedos]

I swapped from British Gas & Electricity North west about 18 months ago, to a dual fuel account with the Co -op
I am afraid it was better the devil you know.
Co- Op hopeless, struggle to get a correct meter read bill from them despite filling in the cards for the meter readers, who it seems, then do not log it into the system, you then get a snotty email from the co op themselves 'Demanding' a reading, which you supply them with, only to receive yet another estimated bill.
Sent them a strongly worded email, and got a reply back to say I was £170 in credit, followed by a demand for £262 in the post a couple of days later.
Lost all confidence in them now, one hand does not know what the other does.

Should have known better when it took them months to contact previous suppliers to make the switch.

 

[Y Fan Wen]

A mate of mine turned up at my door in July wanting to borrow all the electric heaters I had.

Apparently, he'd got one of those large magnets and stuck it on the side of his electricity meter and forgotten about it. The electric suppliers owed him money. He was desparately trying to get it back into debit!

He's dead now, so I can tell the story!

The cwm was wired for electricity during 1963 and all was finished by December. There was then a hiatus caused by the front office not having sent out the meter contracts to be signed before connection. As Xmas approached, Dad took the law into his own hands and hot wired into the system. When a car came into the yard after dark he ran to remove the wires only to find it was the neighbour coming to find out how to do it himself.
Manweb finally went round connecting everyone minus meters the day before Xmas Eve. The meters were fitted early in the New Year. It was a very warm Xmas!

 

[PostHarvest]

I had a similar problem to llamedos but with Utility Warehouse who [IMO] wouldn't be able to navigate to a pub let alone organise a party when they found it. My brother died suddenly and I had to deal with Utility Warehouse to close his gas and electric accounts. We argued around and around for months with them insisting that my brother should pay them based on their estimated use [would have been difficult as he wasn't around at the time] and me refusing to pay anything as the account had a large credit. Eventually I received a bailiffs letter and a refund cheque in the same post. I banked one and burned the other.

 

[Pasty]

I tried to switch to co-op back along. Was a nightmare and I told them to 'move along' in about the same amount of words. Hopeless. It's all very well encouraging people to keep switching but it usually ends up in some convoluted nightmare involving hours on the phone to sort basic issues. Personally, I am separating electric and gas as trying to switch both seems a nightmare. It's like they do dual fuel but it's not the same people you are dealing with. Co-op seemed fine on the electric switch but decided we were not switching the gas too. What? Cretins. All of them. Over paid cretins.

 

[Chae1]

We've switched to n power. Did it through machinery ring

 

[Northeastfarmer]

We've switched to n power. Did it through machinery ring

Good luck with that! Worst company in the world to deal with

 

[JJT]

You would think electricity supply would be the easiest business in the world to run, read a meter, read it again in 3 months time, subtract one from the other and Bill of the difference, job done but oh no, it seems none of them are capable of that! Think I might diversify into 'lecy supply, how hard can it be!

Alas it seems this is the way the world is going, banking isn't much better.

 

[fermerboy]

Good luck with that! Worst company in the world to deal with

We have gone to NPower through the machinery ring too.
The cost saving from being with NPower direct is serious.
Plus we just deal with the nice lassies at the machinery ring and they sort the rest out.

Apparently the ring is supplied through Woldmarsh Producers who have a big corporate account and that makes a big difference to customer service.

 

[Yale]

We researched ours through the Martin Lewis Moneysavingexpert website.

Went with a company called GB power.

Were with Utility warehouse.

Seemed quite simple to change.

 

[Northeastfarmer]

We have gone to NPower through the machinery ring too.
The cost saving from being with NPower direct is serious.
Plus we just deal with the nice lassies at the machinery ring and they sort the rest out.

Apparently the ring is supplied through Woldmarsh Producers who have a big corporate account and that makes a big difference to customer service.

Well as long as you're not in a 5 year contract and don't have to deal directly with them you'll be fine....went to opus now and what a breath of fresh air...much cheaper and a great company

 

[multi power]

We researched ours through the Martin Lewis Moneysavingexpert website.

Went with a company called GB power.

Were with Utility warehouse.

Seemed quite simple to change.

I have gone to them too, cheapest I could find, but I won't save more than 200 quid a year

 

[AF Salers]

Been with npower through Woldmarsh for 2 years now, as said above, not a problem as i deal with woldmarsh not npower, and they are cheap, bills correct and no hassle.

 

[Wombat]

My wife swaps our house supplier every year through money saving expert. we are dual fuel and have spent the last 3 yrs going from British Gas to sainsbury energy and back as the cheapest. Irony is sainsbury energy is done by British Gas

 

[SRRC]

what a crazy system, you cant get a reduction unless you swop as your own supplier is not allowed to quote you a reduction , which block head made that up

That's not correct, provided you are out of contract you can get your existing supplier to requote along with anyone else. Even if you are in contract if you pay the penalties you can change tariff.
The Farm Energy Centre are always a good place to start.
Just a word of warning, if you have multiple meters make very sure that the new supplier has adopted the correct one, often they just take the one at the top of the list.