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£854 per month gas and electricity

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vinoandbrie · 23/04/2022 11:17

My fixed rate comes to an end on 31 May.

Scottish Power emailed me this morning to say your tariff is ending, click here to view options.

I have two options, one for £853.99pcm, the other for £854pcm. I’m going to attach screen shots as this amount is so unbelievable otherwise. We currently pay £285pcm.

I should just go to a default tariff right and not a fixed rate?

Gas and electricity will now be costing us more than our mortgage.

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ballsdeep · 23/04/2022 11:18

Surely that is a mistake? How big os your house?

dementedpixie · 23/04/2022 11:19

You'd be insane to go with a fixed rate at that monthly cost. What are the costs per kwh and the standing charge on the fixed rate?

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vinoandbrie · 23/04/2022 11:20

The house is not small, we are currently paying £285, which has always struck me as high but manageable. The new quote is just madness.

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OnlyFoolsnMothers · 23/04/2022 11:20

Your near 300 quid a month nearly made me fall over- that’s insane.
I wouldn’t lock in to such a rate- and pls start seeing where you can reduce your usage

goodwinter · 23/04/2022 11:21

Does it look correct to you? What's the kWh price/standing charge for the new offer(s) and what's your average monthly usage?

dementedpixie · 23/04/2022 11:23

I'd look at what is currently costing you so much. Tumble dryer, showers, immersion heater (anything that heats or cools basically)

gamerchick · 23/04/2022 11:23

That's insane. Ring them up ,ask for their bank details, cancel the DD and set up a standing order for what you can afford. Send monthly meter readings and tell them you'll pay for what you've actually used.

gamerchick · 23/04/2022 11:24

I don't get what you were originally paying. Are you shelling out for hot tubs, ponds and underfloor heating or something?

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vinoandbrie · 23/04/2022 11:27

No hot tub, no pond, no underfloor heating, and no electric car to be charged.

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OnlyFoolsnMothers · 23/04/2022 11:28

then what’s up with your usage?

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vinoandbrie · 23/04/2022 11:28

I do use a tumble dryer say two or three times a week, and there are four of us in the house, so we wash (ourselves) every day. I do the clothes washing at the weekend, but there’s not masses of it!

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vinoandbrie · 23/04/2022 11:28

And the house is not small to be fair.

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giggbig · 23/04/2022 11:29

Don't fix

Cornettoninja · 23/04/2022 11:29

bloody hell, no one needs that to drop in their inbox!

I’d be on the phone getting it documented that I simply could not pay that. If there was no room for negotiating I’d be doing what @gamerchick advised then auditing every single item in my house for efficiency savings.

Knittingchamp · 23/04/2022 11:29

Id guess the OP isn't doing anything crazy. We took our energy company to the regulators once for trying to throw a massive bill at us. Took months, they never admitted anything or provided a breakdown of these charges, just always demanded we pay. It makes you feel powerless. In the end they started sending us really low bills for ages. It was totally weird but levelled out in the end and we just went with it as we were exhausted from months of trying to fight the big weird bills. We weren't using anything crazy at all, and we didn't change anything to get the low bills either.

My take is that energy companies are daylight shystering robbers.

Cornettoninja · 23/04/2022 11:31

When did you last submit meter readings?

JurasicPerks · 23/04/2022 11:32

What is the estimated DD for the variable rate. Without that, the fixed rates are meaningless.
That said, if you had a decent fix, be expecting the amount to double. So you are looking at 600 without energy reduction efforts on your side.

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vinoandbrie · 23/04/2022 11:32

3 March 2022

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gogohm · 23/04/2022 11:32

That's high to start with - is it an old drafty house? My bill for my old 5 bed old detached house was £179 a month before I sold last month for reference, I pay £132 now (as of April) for a 4 bed townhouse

toomanywheeliebins · 23/04/2022 11:33

Name changed for this - my house is also not small. Think four floor drafty Victorian. Ours has just gone up to 325 a month - and I can see some of that is too cover a bit of a debit over winter where energy usage was high.
We have a smart meter - bad days are about £12 a day.
I would be getting a smart meter and not fix

titchy · 23/04/2022 11:33

That is insane, but check your annual usage it might be way off.

For comparison we have a 5 bed, work from home so heating on a lot, run a TD etc and our annual elec is 3000 kWh, gas 12,000 kWh. Is yours more or less that?

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vinoandbrie · 23/04/2022 11:34

Ours is more than that 😞

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Lem0nDrizzle · 23/04/2022 11:34

That is insane.
I wouldn't fix

dementedpixie · 23/04/2022 11:34

@vinoandbrie you haven't given the tariff for the new fix or your usage. For comparison the standard variable rate is around the figures shown here (mine is with Octopus but they are all around the same as it is the price capped rate)

Waxonwaxoff0 · 23/04/2022 11:35

Do you have a smart meter?

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