We are with Octopus Energy on their variable rate. Last month our gas bill was over 500 and our electric was 200. We only had the heating on for two hours a day and heated the water for an hour. We live in a four bedroom house but have always been frugal with our energy use. We have had a plumber out to check our boiler- there's no issues and it's efficient.
We have a Smart metre but Octopus refuse to give us a home working display and their app will not connect to our smart metre so we don't know our usage until we are billed which causes us a lot of stress. Octopus has said they can send an engineer to check our metre but that "that won't be the problem" and they will charge us. Hence a month of being too scared to put the heating on and being miserable. We can see our breath in the house.
We are on Octopus's variable rate. I think the EDF variable rate is cheaper, but this has surprised me as lots of people rave about Octopus Energy. Even though Octopus have been terrible to us I am nervous about switching and potentially being worse off.
Can any of you clever minds confirm to me that EDF is cheaper?
Octopus
Elec Day rate: 86.79
Elec Night rate: 34.27
Standing charge: 35.6
Gas unit rate: 14.04
Standing charge: 25.56
EDF
Elec day rate: 54.45
Elec night rate: 6.99
Standing charge: 39.02
Gas unit rate: 10.308
Standing charge: 28.48