Gas and electric

[hmmmm1223]

Just got our 2023 tariff through for gas and electric and not sure if I am over reacting or if it is a lot.

So if you don't mind saying how much do you pay for gas and electric?!

£120-130 a month for both in winter. Depending how cold it is.

Mines fixed at 98 per month for both gas and electricity. Just ran through some comparison sites and a new fixed tariff would be £200 pm

Bracing myself for next hear when my deal ends.

Year*

SSE 19.92p kWh electric
SSE 3.44p kWh has

Standing charge 26-27p daily for each

Fixed until August 2023 thank goodness, feel very fortunate about that. DD of £157 per month.

Gas not has

I'm not going to be fixing until the tarrifs are reduced. They will currently double what we pay (around £90 per month}

Surely it depends on many factors ... size of house/flat for example. I could tell you my bill is £1000 per month but it is meaningless without context.

You go first OP. How much do you pay and what size/type of property does it relate to?

Best to keep an eye on the units you use rather than the actual cost. We use around 11 units of electric a day but only in a small house.

@hmmmm1223

Just got our 2023 tariff through for gas and electric and not sure if I am over reacting or if it is a lot.

So if you don't mind saying how much do you pay for gas and electric?!

Do you mean you got options for fixing your tariff? At the moment there are no cheap fixed tariffs and you are better to go onto the standard variable rate as its covered by the price cap

What other people pay is irrelevant, everyone has different house size, appliances, insulation etc.

However, you are unlikely to be better off fixing until 2023 right now. Current advice is to do nothing and roll onto the standard tariff which is the cheapest option until April at least.

@PurpleThursdays

Mines fixed at 98 per month for both gas and electricity. Just ran through some comparison sites and a new fixed tariff would be £200 pm

Bracing myself for next hear when my deal ends.

Your price per month isn't fixed. What you pay for each unit of energy is fixed so if you use more you will pay more. Does £98 cover what you use?

3 bed terraced house, with walls and loft insulated. £160 per month. It baffles me.

To add we are 3 bed detached bungalow

And currently seriously considering installing a wood burner as OH can get free/cheap wood in his forestry industry job.

@dementedpixie, it more than does. I've just requested a part-refund as the surplus credit was a lot.

I've just upped dd from £50 to £65 per month. I never heat the bedrooms but don't stint downstairs.

Sorry I meant 2022!! Yes I understand everyone's is different due to house size, amount of people in it and lots of other factors was just curious to see.

We currently pay £90/100 a month. We got a rough estimate for next year of £350/400!!!!!!!

We live in a 3 bed end terraced housed (me, my OH and DSD 50% of time)

Also add we aren't at home Monday - Friday as work full time.

Think will give them a call! Thanks

@hmmmm1223

Sorry I meant 2022!! Yes I understand everyone's is different due to house size, amount of people in it and lots of other factors was just curious to see.

We currently pay £90/100 a month. We got a rough estimate for next year of £350/400!!!!!!!

We live in a 3 bed end terraced housed (me, my OH and DSD 50% of time)

That will be for a fixed rate tariff. Dont choose a fix as you will pay more than the standard variable rate

It used to be about a £10 a week on each, now it's more like £15 a week, so roughly £120-£140 a month.

*It'll be more like £140 if it's especially cold/muddy and I use more heat/hot water/run the tumble dryer more often.

And sorry for context we're in a two bedroom with crap insulation, and often have lots of devices charging, a tumble dryer running, and I drink lots of coffee so the kettle's on quite a lot. I only work pt so am home from about 2 every day.

I pay £95 /month for both, I'm in a 3 bed semi.
£95 is too high - but it balances out over the year.

For a three year fix I have been quoted £150 /m, but based on current usage, it will be more like £130.
To go onto the variable, it will cost £117 /m, but more like £90.

When the prices go up in April, the variable may work out more expensive than the fixed rate, so I'm a bit unsure what to do too.

Ours has gone from 13p daily charge and 14p/kw for electric (heating runs on oil and we have a wood burner) in a old 5 bed detached house. Last summer we were £60 a month with credit evening out the winter. We then installed a 2 bed static (gas tanks for heating) and the DD changed to £90 which was expected.

I've just gone through our bills as they wanted to up the DD from £90 to £154. For unknown reasons our electric usage in jul/Aug was like a winter month but has since come right back down. In between this, our fixed rate ran out and next available best tarriff is flat rate of 24p/kw with same supplier, but meter readings mean it should go back down to around £100/month.

Comparison websites are quoting over £200.month if we were to switch from outfox the market.

I have a Pay As You Go Meter and I live in a 1.5 bedroom ground floor maisonette . I pay £160 /month for electricity only. The summer I spend around £40. I have been trying to speak to a senior person at SSE since 29th September to get the meter changed but to no avail. Instead they bombarded me with letters /emails about smart meters they are very quick to respond to that. I've never experienced such a shoddy and inept costumer service as SSE. I'm still waiting to get my meter issue resolved.