"Jaime" wrote in message
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After we just recieved a £400 bill as we haden't been charged properly for
the preceedign 3 quaters we are looking at changing suppliers. Southern
Electric seem to charge us about £570 for the 8.1 MW hr's we used in the
past year (both company read meter readings).

The online price comparisons seem to suggest Atlantic energy or basic
power
as being sutiably cheap alternatives, does anyone have any experience of
them? We dont have any gas and are not on ecomony 7. Cooking is electric
as
is our shower.

How do monthly direct debits in advance work? Do they guess at a yearly
usage divide up monthly and then adjust somehow?



Many thanks for the replies. Yes we should have updated the readings (didn't
know my mum had had such small bills). However I phoned Southern Electric
who where very helpful and we have switched to a cheaper direct debit plan
with a large part of the recent bill spread over the next few months. Really
quite suprising how helpful they where and open to suggestion as to amounts,
payment dates etc..., like in another more recent thread it does seem that
competition is working in this sector.

Jaime