Electricity rates

[Northdowns Martin]

I thought there was a thread running with current electric prices, has it been removed or hasn't there ever been one?
Have been called by brokers offering best prices, are farmers looking around or just renewing? If switching are brokers a good way of getting best rates?

 

[How much]

I changed my home electric supplier via the u switch website yesterday they do
business electric also.
I didnt look to see if they do half hourly billing etc but if its as easy as changing your home electic its super simple

https://www.uswitch.com/business-energy/guides/business-electricity/

 

[Crowfarmer]

Brokers weren't competitive for me, ended up with edf at 25p standing charge and 11.69 unit +7% DD discount on approx 13,000 units pa 2 year fix.

 

[rob1]

what ever you do dont use dual energy they gave me a really low price but then welched on it and tried to get me to pay a higher price

 

[Northdowns Martin]

Broker has come in best at present. EDF and British Gas slightly cheaper but more on day standing charge. Where he score is quoting for 2 low usage meters with no standing charge and only slightly more on unit rate.

 

[ffarmwr]

I have an 06 max demand meter at the mo and use a proxy 30000 kw. Apparently I have to migrate to a HH meter- incurring extra charges for meter reading and data collection. Anybody else have this trouble?

 

[early riser]

@ffarmwr i am in an almost identical position to you

We had an electric upgrade done back in 2012 and unbeknown to us Northern Powergrid fitted a profile class 6 max demand meter. Never had any issues up until this last renewal, when because of the p272 legislation we now face moving to Half hourly metering with all its extra costs.

Like you we only use approx 35,000 units per annum, but keep getting transferred into the industrial and commercial departments of energy companies, many firms won't even give me a quote. They all say that ofgem have banned them from downgrading meters to a lower profile class

I am absolutely sick to the back teeth of it all, did you manage to make any headway on this?

 

[ffarmwr]

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@ffarmwr i am in an almost identical position to you

We had an electric upgrade done back in 2012 and unbeknown to us Northern Powergrid fitted a profile class 6 max demand meter. Never had any issues up until this last renewal, when because of the p272 legislation we now face moving to Half hourly metering with all its extra costs.

Like you we only use approx 35,000 units per annum, but keep getting transferred into the industrial and commercial departments of energy companies, many firms won't even give me a quote. They all say that ofgem have banned them from downgrading meters to a lower profile class

I am absolutely sick to the back teeth of it all, did you manage to make any headway on this?

Still no better really, got the unions on board. I was the first to mention it and they had no idea what I was speaking about! They passed my info to their brokers and I got exactly the same story from them.

What if I was too sell up shop and stop farming. I would then be using a fraction of what I'm using at moment. Surely I would be downgraded then?

Currently fixed a 2 year deal with haven at 14 night and 10 day. This is fixed so I can hide for a bit and hope that something happens in the meantime for low 06 users

What units are you paying at the moment?

 

[Exfarmer]

what ever you do dont use dual energy they gave me a really low price but then welched on it and tried to get me to pay a higher price

Always keep all such quotes stored.

 

[rob1]

Always keep all such quotes stored.

I did but the barstewards always have a get out clause

 

[Cowcalf]

I changed my home electric supplier via the u switch website yesterday they do
business electric also.
I didnt look to see if they do half hourly billing etc but if its as easy as changing your home electic its super simple

https://www.uswitch.com/business-energy/guides/business-electricity/

did you actually get a price for SC and per kw or was it just you would save X amount ?. Too may ways of creeping out of that for me .

 

[Badshot]

The half hourly metering job is being rolled out across the country. The threshold is being lowered a lot so a lot more of us will suddenly be on it. It took me 3 years to get off it, now I'm going to be back on it again, albeit with lower costs than they used to be.

 

[Lazy Sod]

I've only ever had a 230v single phase supply to my farm, with a meter similar to those fitted to a domestic house, so could somebody please explain what this half hourly metering is all about.

 

[early riser]

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Still no better really, got the unions on board. I was the first to mention it and they had no idea what I was speaking about! They passed my info to their brokers and I got exactly the same story from them.

What if I was too sell up shop and stop farming. I would then be using a fraction of what I'm using at moment. Surely I would be downgraded then?

Currently fixed a 2 year deal with haven at 14 night and 10 day. This is fixed so I can hide for a bit and hope that something happens in the meantime for low 06 users

What units are you paying at the moment?

Renewal prices for me are looking like 13p day rate, 7.5 night rate and 47p/d standing charge.

Spoke to the Farm Energy Centre who have a helpline for NFU members. The lady was very helpful and basically said that there is no way of downgrading to a lower profile class at the moment, and that most people will be moved over into HH metering in the the next few years anyway.

Only once they have a year's worth of usage data will they consider downgrading you.

So think I'll just renew for 12 mi this and see what happens in that time, I will be approx £600 p.a. worse off than my current contract

 

[Northdowns Martin]

Renewal prices for me are looking like 13p day rate, 7.5 night rate and 47p/d standing charge.

Spoke to the Farm Energy Centre who have a helpline for NFU members. The lady was very helpful and basically said that there is no way of downgrading to a lower profile class at the moment, and that most people will be moved over into HH metering in the the next few years anyway.

Only once they have a year's worth of usage data will they consider downgrading you.

So think I'll just renew for 12 mi this and see what happens in that time, I will be approx £600 p.a. worse off than my current contract

That's a very high standing charge, 25-35p is what I have been quoted

 

[Cowcalf]

i told Eon I would not be renewing and today they sent the figures for post contract electric SC 109P/ day and electric 22.22p/kw,, comedians

 

[Pheasant Surprise]

The half hourly metering job is being rolled out across the country. The threshold is being lowered a lot so a lot more of us will suddenly be on it. It took me 3 years to get off it, now I'm going to be back on it again, albeit with lower costs than they used to be.

Do you know what the new threshold is? We're on 100A supply which was the old threshold above which it was HH

I know it's all part of the DECC grand plan

 

[Badshot]

Do you know what the new threshold is? We're on 100A supply which was the old threshold above which it was HH

I know it's all part of the DECC grand plan

I think it's pretty much half. There's going to be lots of people get caught now, me included.

 

[Pheasant Surprise]

I think it's pretty much half. There's going to be lots of people get caught now, me included.

Balls to that. Smart metering for domestic is just cloak and dagger HH

 

[Badshot]

Balls to that. Smart metering for domestic is just cloak and dagger HH

Yep, there's going to be some very unhappy campers when it happens.