[Closed] Gas and leccy again! What kwh are using a year? And bulb the supplier any good?

I moved from Spark (just before they collapsed) to Bulb last year. Definitely cheaper over this winter, although the heating hasn't been on as much as usual. But looks a better deal considering the price increases last autumn. In fact, Bulb has reduced slightly since I joined up. I'll be staying for now but it's free to leave if required...

Two Bed flat, myself and student son by the way.

Bulb are fine. Electric works, gas works. Its cheap enough...

Apparently we use 4315kWh electric and 11176kWh gas for a 3 bed semi, two kids.

Octopus get very good reviews - it's probably who I'll use when we move this summer...

2 of us in a 2 bed terrace. Combi boiler, gas hob, leccy oven.

3000 leccy 500 Gas. Roughly. Paying about £45 a month with Bulb and in credit. No complaints at all with bulb. Always been very helpful.

Send me an email if you're interested in a referral code.

Similar consumption (bit more gas, bit less electricity) and I'm with Bulb. Website and app are good, they've been quick and helpful when I sent them an incorrect reading.

Only annoyance has been that as I had a v1 smart meter from previous supplier I've had to go back to manual readings - left it for a while and winter usage was more than estimated. They're apparently starting to roll out v2 smart meters which I'm on the list for but no news yet.

They track wholesale costs so the price can go up, rather than being fixed for a period.

Brother rates Bulb - and he's a northern type when it comes to value for money/service.

You're using a lot of electricity.

Our predicted annual usage is: 4850kwh Elec and 27000kwh Gas

4 bed detached built in 1905. 2 adults, 2 kids so someone in everyday all day so lights, tv etc. generally on.

Im using Pure Planet (recommended choice by MSE) at the moment and they seem to be pretty reasonable. Its all done through an app and is pretty easy overall. Transfer went smoothly and their payments are pretty resonable. More in winter, less in summber. Saved me about £200 pa.
(I have a referral link if anyone is interested, PM me with your e-mail and you'll get a £25 Amazon voucher when you sign up. Modz, delete if this bit is verbotten)

I've just made the switch to Bulb so am hoping they're fine.

I'm with BUlb, no dramas so far. Find someone who is with them and get them to give you there code to get a discount for you both.

Leccy is high due to the big kettle being permanently on in the garden (hot tub) and now the summer house with heating and fridge and bar etc. I've monitored it very closely over the last few years for the tub usage and it averages out at about 12/14 quid a week.

8,800 kWh electric but roughly 2,800 of that is a car so 6,000 kWh in the house

59,000 kWh gas.... And that is with a wood burning stove that's lit 300 days a year,

Octopus.

I switched to bulb of years ago now. They came out great with a quote but then turns out that was a random guess and now pay almost treble what they quoted.

Electricity production 3400kWh
Consumption 2600kWh (including the car including charges on public chargers)

Gas cut off

2.5m3 of mainly softwood. Say 3800kWh

EDF, 2-bed individual house.

Avro works out cheapest for me, 1920's 3 bed semi externally insulated with 18 year old boiler. 2 adults, 1 kid. Up until the installation of giant kettle in garden we used 4000kwh electricity and 21000kwh gas. Pre-insulation that was 28000kwh gas. Installing the outside kettle puts us nearer 10000kwh electricity too. Wife and girl favour nightly baths. In addition, apparently lighting up the entire house is normal whether you are in any of the rooms or not, in fact it is normal even when you go out the house to work/school.
Edit - the addition of a Phev this month is pushing the leccy up a little too I guess, but not too much as I plug in at work most days. This will contribute about 600kwh maximum of the total above.

Use CAB or which comparison sites, better than uSwitch etc

Google is failing me, Moloney

2800Kwh Electric, 33000kwh Gas.

Old house, 20 year old boiler, poor windows and holes in the roof. We are moving in a few weeks to a new house, so will look forward to our gas usage dropping considerably.

We've been with Bulb for just over a year. No problems and way cheaper than previous supplier.

2,692kWh of electric and 26,145kWh of gas - 3 bed 1920s semi in the North of England, two adults two teens two dogs - gas hob and heating/water, solar panels, poorly insulated, badly designed extension with terrible surface area to volume ratio.

Use CAB or which comparison sites, better than uSwitch etc

I was recommended mse to use as a comparison site by loads of people on here last time. They really do come up with many random suppliers as well as the usual suspects, never realised shell did leccy and gas until this last comparison.

I can't believe the gas usage of some people on here though, clearly my renovation work is saving us shit loads of money on the gas side of things. Admittedly I can't do a lot about the big kettle eating leccy unless I turn it off and get some fish!

Aye they are good too.

Shell only recently bought or rebranded First Utility (I think).

Octopus here and no complaints.

£50 referral credit for both parties if anyone wants a code.

We are with bulb and its cheaper than anything else I've seen. Currently on 2250 KwH Elec and around 10K KwH Gas. 1950s 3 bed ex council house. Its also (relatively) Green energy.

27,500 gas and about 8000 electric here and coming to the end of a fixed rate deal with Scottish Power. Did all the comparisons and Bulb had solid reviews but the price was not particularly competitive and I was put off by the variable rate. Gone instead with an 18 month fix with ESB Energy through Uswitch. Their gas and day electric rate were an almost exact match for what we pay on our current deal. Night rate (we're on Economy 7 and charge the car overnight) and standing rates a bit higher than current but overall we ended up on about £170 per year more. ESB Energy if you haven't heard of them (as I hadn't) have only been supplying the UK since 2017 but are one of the main suppliers in Ireland since the 1920's. So far no hassles and the website seems good.

Cashbackers be aware: you can get referral fees back via Quidco, using switch sites or suppliers' sites.

But do searches on the better sites as above first.

Just rechecked and edf are now top and thats a fixed deal. How long does a switch usually take?

anyone used an autoswitch service; an acquaintance of mine is with https://www.switchcraft.co.uk/uswitch-gocompare-moneysupermarket-comparethemarket-switchcraft-better/ and while I don't know if trawling the market for a new deal every year is really that much of a hassle, if you can outsource diarising (ouch) that part too then why not?

We use..

2400 kWh Elec per year
9200 kWh Gas per year

3 bed Victorian Terraced house.

Before anyone switches just call up customer services and see if anyone answers the phone. EDF might be cheap but my experiences with them have been dire.

We have stuck with Ovo,

I just had a letter through from EDF as my current deal is ending, my usage is Elec 2402kWh and Gas 9532 kWh and Eon online saver came out cheapest last week. Will redo search later today before signing up.

I found MSE annoying as it never says what it calculates the savings on, even when I told it my usage it told me a much higher figure to be saved than when I worked out my costs using the actual unit prices.

I just switched my gas to Ecotricity who already did my electricity. I didn't know they did gas but whilst calling them about a billing problem (they were excellent btw) I noticed that on the bill it had the 'smell gas?' number.

Apparently they are trying to get as much of their gas as possible from bio-gas, currently 14% but they are using my money to build a UK based bio-gas reactor. It's also vegan gas, which is a bit of a shame because I'm not vegan and there must be a load of animal-based waste going begging, but it's still better than dino-gas which I guess is not vegan either technically..

Anyway, worth a thought for the tree-huggers out there.

Using bulb and they're significantly cheaper and easier to use than previous British gas but main reason I switched was for the green energy (rented flat is electric only). They also have an interesting super off peak tarrif.

I have a £70 referral code if you switch before Tuesday:

https://bulb.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4834935b227d653db6d9f1a11&id=63a6b58d44&e=6ae19956c0

I've just switched to Bulb - no complaints so far

Took a while for the switch to go through

In the past I've usually gone for a 1 year fix and switched supplier every year once the deal ran out

I'm paying slightly less than my old supplier

I use Avro and havent found cheaper yet

21,950 Gas and 4,818 Elec last year apparently.

With Scottish power.

I'll probably never get around to switching suppliers.

I only use 500kwh elected per year but any supplier wants about £100 per year in standing charges. Octopus are good sofar.

Octopus here too. They don't charge an early redemption fee (c£30 per fuel for other suppliers)
When the cost of energy goes down I just swap from my fixed deal to their cheapest fixed deal, win, win

EDF here - not cos they're cheaper (they're not) but because there was no hassle putting MrsJ's name on the bill. As long as this shithole banana republic has no proper public administration and a leccy bill is a de facto ID card, she needs to play the game to get one.

Edf are cheapest at the mo...for me

I went with Octopus over Bulb as although they offered similar rates, Bulb was variable and recently their prices have been creeping up; in contrast Octopus is fixed.

I’m actually paying more or less the same as my previous supplier but that’s because I opted for the tariff where all electricity is from renewable sources and gas consumption is offset by the purchase of carbon offset certificates.

As for customer service they’re superb - a quick Facebook messenger chat message and you get a really useful response within a few hours. It also means you can send photos etc. That said, I’ve had very few problems so far...far fewer than with Eon.

PM me for a referral code if anyone wants.