Energy crisis

[GeoffCapes]

I'm looking round at the big boys but Martin Lewis says do not switch right now. Wait for your money to trickle through then switch.

Avro Energy and Green cease trading – here's what it means for your gas and electricity

Energy suppliers Avro Energy and Green have become the latest firms to cease trading, affecting more than 800,000 households. If you're with either firm, your energy supply will continue and credit balances are protected. But DON'T switch now – sit tight and wait until your new supplier has...

www.moneysavingexpert.com

Not sure I agree with Martin Lewis. But hey. Who am I?

I'd be switching now rather than in a few weeks when the price has risen further. You will get a standard rate which one of the big boys will put up. They won't do you any favours, and it won't be anywhere near what you have at the moment.

Having just read the daily update I get, prices have dropped today (a couple of a percent) but the long term prices are still up further.

I'll take a screen print and post it so you can all have a read.

 

[GeoffCapes]

 

[midlifecrisis]

Martin Lewis has been in the money saving business a long time, not just in energy so I'll take his advice. I get what you're saying but I'll also be deleting gas on my new contract so it gets more complicated.

As Martin states
Once you've been moved across, check if you can save by switching. You can ask the new supplier to put you on a cheaper tariff, but you can also move away to another provider without being charged any exit fees, so it's best to do a whole-of-market comparison – which you can do on Cheap Energy Club – to ensure you find the best deal for you.

 

[midlifecrisis]

Go on. Tell me another! You've got more chance of seeing Jesus than the tariffs going up!

It was tongue in cheek, they'll go up in April...I'm still selling more at a higher rate than what I buy...

 

[Zep]

If they go bust holding your money you might as well kiss it goodbye as you'll join the rest of the queue of creditors for your 5p in the pound.

Ofgem protect your credit in the event that your energy company goes bust.

I’ll just leave this here, for anyone who wants to read it:

What happens if your energy supplier goes bust

Sit tight and wait for Ofgem to appoint a new supplier. Your supply won’t be disrupted.

www.ofgem.gov.uk

 

[D Walker]

I’ve seen a lot of people are automatically getting switched to British Gas.
If you are, switch as soon as you can.
Customer service is shocking.
had some fool telling me that £400 for 4 days gas was reasonable. ( even when it was pointed out that was more than we had used in previous 9 month.)This was when we were switching and an idiot at British has estimated out final bill instead of using the reading we gave.
it’s an on going battle.
They were most upset to find the DD had been stopped.

 

[daverichardson]

Getting hold of these people BGas, Virgin, NWater many more is increasingly difficult and so your individual circs are quite often overlooked. It is indeed a trial to get the right telephone number and speak to a human. I do use the chatbots and found them ok for routine stuff

 

[GeoffCapes]

I’ve seen a lot of people are automatically getting switched to British Gas.
If you are, switch as soon as you can.
Customer service is shocking.
had some fool telling me that £400 for 4 days gas was reasonable. ( even when it was pointed out that was more than we had used in previous 9 month.)This was when we were switching and an idiot at British has estimated out final bill instead of using the reading we gave.
it’s an on going battle.
They were most upset to find the DD had been stopped.

BG’s customer service is truely appalling.
I went through a stage of not placing any business with them.
However, since I now have the head of SME for BG’s mobile number, I can speak to the organ grinder should have an issue rather than the monkeys.

 

[stikey]

energy wholesale price go s up then all the small companies that have been chipping away at the big suppliers profit go bust and gess what all the big boys are back on top with all the profit again
funny that.
CARTEL

 

[midlifecrisis]

British Gas customer service used to be very good. My FiT is with them and come to think of it, they are late in paying. The last one when through easy, paid up within a few days.

 

[UlstermanAbroad]

Becoming reliant on a totalitarian regime for our energy. What a good idea that was. If only we'd seen this coming. Cough! Cough!
If I was building my own place again, I'd be attempting to be as energy self sufficient as possible. If not, completely off grid.
This guy https://www.youtube.com/c/WillProwse/featured is a gold mine (accidental pun) of information on solar systems. Ignore his latest post about solar powered Bitcoin mining

 

[stikey]

We install it for a living i have 5 bed houses 80% 0ff grid for electric / hot water & heating over a 12 mouth period

 

[Corranga]

If only there was some indication that this could happen, perhaps our Government could have stepped in and done something….

Wait, what, they did do something?

Oh, they caused it in the first place to allow their buddies / funders to ditch the counties gas storage too line the pockets of their share holders…

Closure of UK’s largest gas storage site ‘could mean volatile prices’

Shuttering of Rough facility off Yorkshire coast by British Gas owner Centrica will increase dependence on imports, say critics

www.theguardian.com

Hopefully everyone gets their stuff sorted / refunded / moved to another supplier etc.

 

[Harry]

I switched on Wednesday 15th to Shell and British Gas and immediately felt like I’d diddled myself out of 3 weeks on my old cheaper tariffs, which were expiring 8th October. Now I am relieved that I did swap on a 3yr fixed tariff. Smug - but maybe the energy providers will wiggle out of long term deals.
The press don’t seem to be making much news about the electricity cable from France being destroyed in a fire in Kent last week. The UK gets a lot of nuclear produced electricity from them and it won’t be back on till next March. Let’s hope it is a very windy and sunny winter. Like we never get!

 

[philw696]

The worst customer service experience for me has to to be Ovo Energy what a shambles they are.

 

[mjheathcote]

The press don’t seem to be making much news about the electricity cable from France being destroyed in a fire in Kent last week. The UK gets a lot of nuclear produced electricity from them and it won’t be back on till next March. Let’s hope it is a very windy and sunny winter. Like we never get!

Let's get plugging in our new EV's....

 

[midlifecrisis]

Becoming reliant on a totalitarian regime for our energy. What a good idea that was. If only we'd seen this coming. Cough! Cough!
If I was building my own place again, I'd be attempting to be as energy self sufficient as possible. If not, completely off grid.
This guy https://www.youtube.com/c/WillProwse/featured is a gold mine (accidental pun) of information on solar systems. Ignore his latest post about solar powered Bitcoin mining

Energy self sufficiency... nearly there!

 

[mjheathcote]

We install it for a living i have 5 bed houses 80% 0ff grid for electric / hot water & heating over a 12 mouth period

What's the going price at the moment for a typical system?
10 years ago it was something like £15k, bought the Maserati instead!
We have a perfect south-facing unshadowed roof.
Always thought the cost must come down to the point where you can use all the juice especially if we have a hybrid, or EV, working largely from home during sunlight, without the feed in tariff, does that exist anymore for new installs?

 

[Scaf]

i am waiting for the panic buying of petrol as BP and Shell have closed some locations due to delivery driver issues, Government have said plenty of fuel, don’t panic………….. watch this space ……….

 

[allandwf]

Government have said plenty of fuel, don’t panic………….. watch this space ……….

That's us forked then! lol