On Sunday, September 8, 2019 at 2:55:00 PM UTC+1, R D S wrote:
What are you currently paying for a unit of electricity?

I don't get a hard on about switching and saving £2 per week but paying
OVO 17.5p per kwh which seems excessive.

I'm with Pure Planet. Renewable electricity (and carbon offset gas). 12.85p per KW/h plus £7.62 membership fee per month. Gas (which you've not asked for!) is 2.83p per KW/h with the same membership fee, all plus vat.

Winter months (Oct-Mar) are charged at 150% of Summer months (e.g. I pay £107 in the summner months and £161 the rest of the year) which works for me.

Kevin H wrote:

I'm with Pure Planet. £7.62 membership fee per month plus vat.

So basically a standing charge of 29.5p/day, relatively expensive
compared to most standing charges people have quoted ...

Looking at my bills for the past year, my total cost ratio is approx 8/13
electricity to gas. It that fairly normal? I'm retired, so the heating is
on all day when needed.

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Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

Looking at my bills for the past year, my total cost ratio is approx 8/13
electricity to gas. It that fairly normal? I'm retired, so the heating is
on all day when needed.

Annual consumption gas just shy of 10MWh, elec 2.5MWh, working from home
more often than away.

Dont know how relevant to OP this is. I am all electric ( although OH would like it not to be that way, not because he is cold though, and he is retired, so home all day.). I am happy enough as follows

Yorkshire Energy - just swapped this month. South West England ( Cornwall).
E7 tariff using storage heaters and I use little convector heaters for top up in cold weather during day time ( they cost around 2p an hour, I have worked it out).

Rates
Day rate 15p kwh
Night 9p kwh
Standing charge 7p per day.

Now that is a fraction cheaper than we paid with So Electric last year.

Total cost of electricity last year was £1429- that was heating , cooking and all other events. No gas charges or anything else as we are rural here and no mains anywhere.

On 15/09/2019 15:09, wrote:
Yorkshire Energy - just swapped this month. South West England ( Cornwall).
E7 tariff using storage heaters and I use little convector heaters for top up in cold weather during day time ( they cost around 2p an hour, I have worked it out).

If your day rate is 15p per KwH, then those convector heaters must
be just an orange bulb and a little motor to give it a
flickering effect, if they only use 2p of leccy per hour.

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Yorkshire Energy - just swapped this month. South West England ( Cornwall).
E7 tariff using storage heaters and I use little convector heaters for top up in cold weather during day time ( they cost around 2p an hour, I have worked it out).

Rates
Day rate 15p kwh
Night 9p kwh
Standing charge 7p per day.

Those really must be tiny convector heaters. Using your figures,
it seems that they must be about 2/15 of a kilowatt, so about
133 Watts. You will, if you are moving about, be contributing
more than that from your own body heat.

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On 15/09/2019 15:09, wrote:

Dont know how relevant to OP this is. I am all electric ( although OH
would like it not to be that way, not because he is cold though, and
he is retired, so home all day.). I am happy enough as follows

Yorkshire Energy - just swapped this month. South West England (
Cornwall). E7 tariff using storage heaters and I use little convector
heaters for top up in cold weather during day time ( they cost around
2p an hour, I have worked it out).

But you got the decimal point in the wrong place 20p/hour is a more
plausible usage rate for a ~1.5kW convector heater in cold weather.

2p/hour will only just power a classic 150W filament light bulb.

Rates Day rate 15p kwh Night 9p kwh Standing charge 7p per day.

Now that is a fraction cheaper than we paid with So Electric last
year.

Total cost of electricity last year was £1429- that was heating ,
cooking and all other events. No gas charges or anything else as we
are rural here and no mains anywhere.

In the SW you might possibly be better off staying on electricity and
having solar panels so that for some of the year at least your daytime
consumption is nulled out by solar PV. Improving loft insulation is the
other easy energy saving win to look at before anything else.

In answer to the OP's question my electricity to other (solid fuel)
ratio is something like 1:3 with most space heating from the wood
burning stove or oil (and ignoring the fact that some wood is free).

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On 15/09/2019 13:34, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
Looking at my bills for the past year, my total cost ratio is approx 8/13
electricity to gas. It that fairly normal? I'm retired, so the heating is
on all day when needed.


Large 4 bed detached. Out in the sticks, no gas.
Annual electric consumption 17MWh - cost £1756. (On economy 7)
This includes heating by electric boiler (wet rad system), general
cooking etc, and 8500 miles worth of charge for an EV.

On 16/09/2019 15:26, Andy Bennet wrote:
On 15/09/2019 13:34, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
Looking at my bills for the past year, my total cost ratio is approx 8/13
electricity to gas. It that fairly normal? I'm retired, so the heating is
on all day when needed.


Large 4 bed detached. Out in the sticks, no gas.
Annual electric consumption 17MWh - cost £1756. (On economy 7)
This includes heating by electric boiler (wet rad system), general
cooking etc, and 8500 miles worth of charge for an EV.

Forgot to add:-
Scottish Power
Day rate 13.1103p/kWh
Night rate 6.9195p/kWh
Standing charge 41.09p/day
The 27 month plan runs out end of January 2020 and then will probably go
with Symbio.

In article , "Dave Plowman (News)"
writes
Looking at my bills for the past year, my total cost ratio is approx 8/13
electricity to gas. It that fairly normal? I'm retired, so the heating is
on all day when needed.

Mine's 10/13 but OH is temperature sensitive and uses a supplementary
electric fan heater on occasions.
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In article ,
bert wrote:
In article , "Dave Plowman (News)"
writes
Looking at my bills for the past year, my total cost ratio is approx 8/13
electricity to gas. It that fairly normal? I'm retired, so the heating is
on all day when needed.

Mine's 10/13 but OH is temperature sensitive and uses a supplementary
electric fan heater on occasions.

Interesting. I thought mine would be very leccy heavy since I have few
LEDs - as I prefer the look of tungsten. And have so many dimmers would
cost a fortune to upgrade them all - even if I could find ones to fit.

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