Gas & Electricity

dooie68 said:
Winter officially begins tomorrow ninety days of winter. Our smart meter shows our annual usage currently £2080-00 for gas and electric . Our usage has certainly gone up this month, past thirty days £243-00, DD of £218-00 plus the gov.hand out of £66 our credit will rise a little. Have to say it's tough keeping the family inside to watch how they use things.
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Mine was £12 today so that’s £360 a month likely in Dec/Jan/Feb I reckon. Maybe more in Jan/Feb if a cold spell hits which is predicted next week. I reckon the £2500 they estimated will be pretty accurate over a year and the mild autumn helped. My DD stayed the same though as I was in credit and I’m now getting £67 a month back so at the moment I’m not seeing any difference.
 
My Mrs has had the heating on recently. I can’t tell her to turn it off as she hasn’t had the heating on most of the time. She works from home. The electricity usage has remained pretty similar. 24 days.

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Millwallawayveteran1988 said:
Mine was £12 today so that’s £360 a month likely in Dec/Jan/Feb I reckon. Maybe more in Jan/Feb if a cold spell hits which is predicted next week. I reckon the £2500 they estimated will be pretty accurate over a year and the mild autumn helped. My DD stayed the same though as I was in credit and I’m now getting £67 a month back so at the moment I’m not seeing any difference.
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Same here we knocked our temp from 20 to 19 degrees and it helps a lot and the house is fine, keeping the heating on for 12 hours Saturday and Sunday worked out around £6 a day, if you only the turn it on for a few hours it takes ages to get to temp, leaving it on all day cost about £3 more as it’s just topping up. Mad to think last year was about £1/2 max!
 
kippaxwarrior said:
Has anyone had their December winter fuel payment yet?

It's hit my pre-paid meter on the first in November and October but still not had it yet for this month
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Yes.

Mine was added to my account on the 1st of December.
 
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kippaxwarrior said:
Just contacted BG. The payment failed to go to the meter on 1st December and is now in a queue to be added. If it's not added by the end of the week I have to contact them again....
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My energy provider wants me to up my monthly payment by £20 to £220. Not a chance! I’m well in credit with an additional £65 coming in every month from the Government.
 
Millwallawayveteran1988 said:
I’m on track for £450 this month I reckon! Ouch.
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Same here, I reckon.

Bit of a pain because in the last week, no gas readings are appearing on my account on the EDF website. Says my meters are working OK. Anyway, I’ll just venture outside to read it once a week so I can keep and eye on it, but £15 a day for gas and electric sounds about right.
 
I have a confectionery business in Blackpool and we negotiate our gas and electric contract about 9 months ahead. Luckily we had a 2 year contract for gas that runs out Oct 2023. On that we pay approx £500 per month (£6k annually) We are currently sorting out our next contract. In previous years we would have an offer and have a couple of weeks to agree or not. Now we have a few hours.....yesterday we had to let the broker know by 3pm or it would go up!!!! We now have a contract for 2 years from Oct 2023 that is for £23k per year on our curent consumption. I have already increased my prices anticipating this and will do so a couple more times before then.
I feel for pubs/restaurants etc who will be hit very hard. Suspect many won't survive.
 
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Had a report on TV here that German Govt is recommending neighbors alternate heating their homes and share evenings together, to reduce their heating bills by upto half, plus the proverbial “wear a nice warm sweater”!

U.S. reporter was dumbfounded.
 
Our £67.00 lasted six days this month, so Bill for this month likely to be £341-00! DD just been reduced by bulb to £204 a month, luckily have a few £ in credit!! Still not nice though as that was our total winter spend two years ago!
 
Driving me insane having to constantly worry about heating/electricity.

I have quite a large debit with Scottish Power due to a historic bill but my dual DD has gone from 90 up to 290 now, including 20 to pay off the debit.

Just a small 2 up 2 down with the Mrs and 2 young kids, does that not seem excessive or about par for what people are finding? We don't have the heating on more than 2/3 hours a day if that.

I've called then recently to reset it as I cancelled the last dd and just made a manual payment but they were quick to jump on the threats/escalations. When you consider there's £66 pm from the government as well, seems a hell of a lot?
 
bluesteve1964 said:
I have a confectionery business in Blackpool and we negotiate our gas and electric contract about 9 months ahead. Luckily we had a 2 year contract for gas that runs out Oct 2023. On that we pay approx £500 per month (£12k annually) We are currently sorting out our next contract. In previous years we would have an offer and have a couple of weeks to agree or not. Now we have a few hours.....yesterday we had to let the broker know by 3pm or it would go up!!!! We now have a contract for 2 years from Oct 2023 that is for £23k per year on our curent consumption. I have already increased my prices anticipating this and will do so a couple more times before then.
I feel for pubs/restaurants etc who will be hit very hard. Suspect many won't survive.
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Wow. Tough times. Out local has cancelled its Sky/BT Sports contract. Don’t think it’s worth the outlay for the numbers it brings in and it’s a popular pub anyway so they must have done the numbers. Lots of places will close though unless the government step in for businesses.
 
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