Email from eon

Is that your new rate?

I'm not sure how to make it any clearer though.  Basically you'll have to pay 50p every day before using any electricity (that's a standing charge).  Then 26p for each unit used, units are what the electricity meter reads.  

Sandy_123 said:

Thank God you said that I read it at 50. 52 pound a day 

Lol, not that bad thankfully!  It's still about double what it was last year though.

Splitting pence into decimals does make it confusing when written down.  We don't even still have half pennies in real money, of course.

I think raising the standing charge is disgusting, why do that?!

Also I can’t find eons rate by googling, so I went on their website and searched for it using my my address and it wouldn’t work. Why do I have o use my address and postcode, I thought the rates were the same all over the country!

im with eon by the way and haven’t had an email.

I find it very difficult to work out what I’m paying let alone what I will pay. I’ve been trying for two days now. The average cap is not what I’ll pay I know that because we use less than average, that’s all I know. 

leeCal said:

I find it very difficult to work out what I’m paying let alone what I will pay. I’ve been trying for two days now. The average cap is not what I’ll pay I know that because we use less than average, that’s all I know. 

The honest answer is that you can't really work out what you'll be paying, none of us know how much more prices will rise.

The best you can do currently is work out a monthly average based on previous electricity bills. 

Obviously standing charge is easy, that's just 30 x 36p or 50p or whatever yours is. 

It's the unit usage that's more difficult to estimate as that's so variable.  If you use electric heating that raises the winter month bills for example.  You might also a cooker or tumble drier more in winter.  So really you need to use a whole years worth of bills to get a more accurate idea of unit usage.  I'm on dual tariff so it's even more difficult to estimate.

The only email I got from E-ON today was ‘see what great deals we have for you to fix’ haha. 

@woodbine if its like British gas the £66 payment works like this 

You pay your dd say its £50 per month then a couple days after they credit your bank with the £50 the remaining £16 is then credited to your energy account to be used when the 6 month period is ended so you will have roughly £96 credit to pay the next couple months dd so in essence you won't  have any energy cost for 8 months 

Actually @Sandy_123 I think it means £11 a day to pay for food, council tax, water rates etc etc, £77 a week isn’t that much after all council tax alone could be £25/30 a week. Not sure. 

Lisa, having checked the rates once again you are paying way over the amounts set for October onwards in particular to your gas. Just wanted to let you know for reference.