On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 10:43:09AM +0100, Adam Bower wrote:
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 10:20:10AM +0100, Chris G wrote:
Npower, Economy 7. Those are the prices on the last paper bill I have which is late last year. So they are likely to be a bit more this year no doubt but not by a huge factor.
Hmmmn, but looking at what they offer now.... Day rates are ~12p per unit and night ~4p and you have to pay a standing charge or some ridiculous rate for the first 729KWh (around 22p). So just choosing the cheapest part of the tariff isn't really a fair comparison.
We don't have E7, and pay ~12p per unit fixed rate, mainly because it is a much more transparent way to pay for our electrickery.
We use quite a lot of electricity, we used to heat with gas but as we're not on town gas (it's delivered to a big tank in the garden) that has become *very* expensive. We now do nearly all of our water heating by electricity, overnight as far as possible and we also use electricity for 'top up' heating with a wood burning stove for main background heating. Thus the Npower rates work quite well for us as the high rate/standing charge is not a significant proportion of our spending.