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I’ve just this morning received my first electricity bill from Ecotricity. It seems to include an overnight tariff after all. Details:
Consumption Day (up to price change 30.09.13): 15.83p/kWh
Consumption Day (after price change 01.10.13): 15.76p/kWh
Consumption Night (up to price change 30.09.13): 6.64p/kWh
Consumption Night (after price change 01.10.13): 6.57p/kWh
Standing Charge (month): £6.52– these rates seem better than farblue quotes above for BG and Good Energy. Having said that VAT at 5% is charged on top, I don’t know if that was the case for the figures above.
Anyway it means I’m now looking at a full (25kW) charge costing me £1.64.
The rates I quoted were inclusive of tax at 5%. Comparing GoodEnergy with most other suppliers shows their Eco7 tariff has a slightly higher evening rate and a slightly lower daytime rate than average but that’s fine by me 🙂 I could maybe save £10 a year or something but I’m expecting a few of my charges to be during the day and, of course, what I pay on the evening rate for my car I save a bit from on the day rate for my house.
If you have solar panels, of course, the evening rate becomes much more important as you are already offsetting the daytime rate.
Remember it also depends where you are in the country – my rates are for the west midlands and so were the British Gas figured I quoted.
Oh, and please note the electricity prices for British Gas are *before* they announced the 10.2% price rise starting november 23rd…
Having had the 8.2% letter from SSE, I decided to switch suppliers just to prove a point. I went onto U-Switch and the cheapest option is Scottish Power – although I’m very aware that I could switch from the frying pan into the fire, so to speak.
Looking at the Scottish Power website, there is no mention at all about their green credentials or mix of power, so I assume they buy the cheapest power to put on the grid regardless of source. My wife advised me that saving money should come before principles, but I can’t switch to them with a clear conscience – instead I’ve moved to Ecotricity, largely because I want to support them with the work they are doing on rolling out fast chargers along the motorway network and because they are working towards 100% green electricity – so principles won out in my household.
I don’t think it will be much cheaper than SSE in the short to mid term, but it makes me feel a bit better! Each to their own.
mark – good move.
@Trevor Do you have an Economy 7 meter then or do Ecotricity drop any electric use and cost between certain times?
@markd great choice and the electric highway is a benefit to you as your RFID card won’t expire and remains free as an Ecotricity customer.
I have an Economy 7 meter – the previous house owners must have had it installed 20 years ago. We were on Economy 7 for a while but went to a standard tariff as we weren’t using much electricity overnight. Now that I’ve got the ZOE charge timer working, of course that has changed.
i also have an Eco7 meter. most ‘new’ metres have the option but you just need to ensure that your supplier offers eco7 tariffs.
im with scottishpower on a fixed contract called “online fixed Apr 2014” which is quite decent for overnight charging…
I joined Ecotricty yesterday for my home and gas supply, thats is to support their input for electric highways.
An interesting blog on Ecotricity vs Good Energy:
– the comments are worth reading too.
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Trevor Larkum.
I’ve been with OVO Energy for several years after ditching the Big Six. They only use a proportion of green energy, but at the time of switching this was not uppermost in my mind. Ex VAT I’m being charged 11.59p daytime and 6.23 night. These figures do not factor in the standing charge (worked out on a daily basis) as before I got the EV the household appliances paid for that, so getting an EV has not added anything extra to the bill.
I have a wall charger (BG – Ugh!) with NO TIMER and of course my Fluence doesn’t have a timer either, but as I had paid extra for the 10A brick I tend to charge overnight with that, via a digital timer. Charging when I get down to a quarter (approx. 16.5kwh), the charge fits almost exactly into the offpeak hours and the cost of charging is just over £1.
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