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Just had a helpful letter from Edf to tell me what my tariff will be from Jan 2023 and it’s changing very slightly (unit rate going up 0.07p for elec and down 0.01 for gas). Which feels a bit odd when I’m on a capped one.
I pay by direct debit and so also a bit odd that in the notes at the end it says I’m on the cheapest gas tariff but my electric would be 30 a year cheaper on payg.
Makes no sense to me as I thought all standard tariffs were at the cap unless this the standing charge and unit rates are different such that it works out cheaper with my usage. Helpfully it doesn’t tell me what the costs of that option are, just the estimated saving.
Or A wheeze to get a smart meter installed?
I am with eon and got something very similar
£1.29 increase for electric and minus 0.02p for gas over the year
Weird
They'll be buggering about with standing charges and unit rates. The "capped rate" is just a number that translates to £xxxx per year for y units. There is no stipulation on how that number is split between standing charge and unit rate.
I've no idea what you're talking about either, but a smart meter isn't a "wheeze" and I've equally no idea why you wouldn't want one.
I’ve equally no idea why you wouldn’t want one
Because they give certain vulnerable people something else to be anxious about, watching their energy costs tick up
Because Mandiant hacked a smart grid in the US in 2021 by exploiting weaknesses in people rather than the system
Because it's another level of something to go wrong (it's taken until now to fix problems with SMETS1 meters)
I'm slightly disappointed, I had read the thread title as Elf oddness...
Smart meters give energy companies the ability to switch you to pre payment without attending your property or even telling you. Not something that is going to be an issue for the majority of the stw demographic but whilst energy companies aren’t charities, people do need it to live and direct debit smoothing enables those with less to Keep the lights on when prepayment might not.
One benefit of them I can see Is that they can give you economy 7 or whatever the new name for it is except Edf don’t do this unless you already have such a tariff