To think it cant be £54 (bills!)

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Its come to that dreaded time again switching gas and electric, currently paying £70 for both with british gas, they want to put it up again (it was £62 at the start of the plan)

Iv gone on uswitch and E.on want £54 a month! How is that even possible?

You can change at any time, but some tariffs are for a fixed period and include an exit penalty, which they can only charge if you have more than 50 days remaining on your contract. It should say on your bill.

Depending on your tariff, it might be worth switching even if you do have a penalty (typically about £30 per fuel), but you need to do a comparison to check.

Thanks everyone!

We turn everything of when we go out and at night, only put heating on now and again! Temp goes up at night in our room without heating 🤷🏻‍♀️

You really dio need to search out your actual meter readings.

Most electrical appliances use trivial currents and the cost is negligible. The things that are power-hungry are heating appliances such as immersion heaters, fan heaters, tumble driers, electric showers and (only during their heating cycle which is about 10-15 minutes) dishwashers and washing machines.

Lighting cost is insignficant unless you have a horde of halogen downlighters.

@BarbaraofSeville I'm cheeky and use my twitter account when I see people asking, and I'm on some money saver sites on Facebook and local groups too. The minute I've seen people asking I've whacked it on. Doesn't always work but I always think where I can save or make extra cash is handy

As long as you give them the meter readings it’s not an estimate to hook you in.
Nothing to stop anyone putting in their usage on a comparison site and seeing how much they would save.
Then it’s just a case of not listening to the spiel from your supplier when you make the switch.

The amount of times I have heard - ooh but we are the cheapest. It’s just an estimate etc is laughable.

Its not the amount they set the dd thats important its the unit charge you need to compare

I just switched with my actual readings. Was with EDF for the last three years as they came up as cheapest. but this year I've gone with Shell, down to £89 for both per month we aren't very frugal and have a large 3 bed house. EDF wanted to go up to £120 month
I feel it will work out at more than £89 once we send multiple readings in, but doubt it'l be £120