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Anyone else with bulb energy?

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makingmiracles · 01/08/2020 01:19

I signed up with them around 2018 and initially was quite pleased that my g+e price per month went down and also the fact your online account let you change dd dates and amounts-used in 2018 when I accumated £300 + credit so set the following month to £10 to bring down the credit abit. For 2019 it was around the £100 a month which was covering the monthly usage, then it went up to £120 and now back in June they forced my payments up to £155 pm, fair enough as I had started to get into debit.
Thing is now I’m back in credit but the account online will only let me lower the monthly amount by £14, to £141 ?? The last couple of months usage have been £98, £89 and £68 so it’s not like I’m using £155 or £141 worth of energy. I know they were entitled to up the amount as I was in debit but now I’m back in credit I don’t like the fact they won’t let me lower it again, £120 pm was manageable, £141 every month is not.

Thinking of comparing prices and going elsewhere as I begrudge having to have large credit balances when I haven’t even yet used the energy!! Much prefer the way other energy companies do it Charging you for what you have used at the end of the 1/3m period.

Anyone else had issues? Do the other less big companies take payment in advance? Octopus etc?

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EnterFunnyNameHere · 01/08/2020 07:59

It might be worth ringing them to see why they are managing it that way. I'm with them, and they say they think about £15 in credit is perfect (and that's fine for me), and don't forget that usually you'd build up an extra buffer over summer which gets used in winter - so you'd pay the same amount all year each month.

When you say you were in debit for a while, how much debit and for how long? It might be that the amount they want you in credit now is higher if you were in debit by lots for ages?

And how much are you in credit now? Is it by a significant amount?

But I'd ring them for an explanation, and then decide if their reasoning makes sense and if you're happy to stay!

abstractzebra · 01/08/2020 08:07

It's so easy to change!
Martin Lewis' energy saving club is really good to register so they will let you know if there are better offers out there.

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