Standing charges

[victor]

EDF announce they are lowering the daily charge from 87p to 56p.

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[Workingman]

My duel fuel SC has just dropped to 69p per day with Scottish Power.

But get this: during the summer months the SC was about 45% of my total bill; over the winter it was about 17%.

I don't mind paying some sort of SC, it's like line rental for phone / broadband, and that infrastructure has to be paid for somehow. However, much of the SC is to pay off the debts of those chancer suppliers (Bulb etc) who went bust.

We should not be paying off their losses, they're down to their owners, shareholders and users.

[cromwell]

I got a gas bill for £64.
£30 gas.
£3 VAT.
£31 standing charge.

I paid more for the standing charge than for the gas. I'm with British Gas.

[Workingman]

I have just updated my duel-fuel bill spreadsheets with Scottish Power.

Of my annual £1,310.90 bill some £422.49 is standing charge - roughly one third.

Methinks the p155 is being taken by these companies.

I have looked at sites such as USwitch for better deals, but nobody wants me as I will not take their made up DD "offers" - I pay by card, monthly. The other thing is that they will only put me on smart meters, which I do not want nor need.

[Suff]

It is a lot higher in France. I was trying to calculate out what I'd save if I tried to go Solar off grid. Sadly the investment would not pay back for around 15 years even with the standing charge.

[Workingman]

And the latest joke is....

Households are going to pay an extra £17 a year on their energy bills to help prevent suppliers going bust.

Those are the same suppliers (billers) who are sitting on £8.1bn of overpayments from those on DD contracts. That sum is "earning" them something like £165m in interest.

I am so glad that I am not one of them - I pay for what I use when I use it.

Effectively the Standing Charge is going up by 4.65 pence per day regardless of usage and this is an OFGEM policy!