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More Powergen. Anyone shed on light on tariffs

Following from the long thread earlier this month, for those that missed it a number of people here have received letters from Powergen saying that were taking over from the current provider Amerada. They mentioned the new cost for gas/electric but failed mention that the tariffs were increasing. The consensus was changing was the way to go.

Anyway, I eventually got round to checking out a new supplier on uswitch. I was shocked and stunned to find that it thinks that the cheapest deal Powergen Online Dual Fuel (although it is still more than Amerada were). Cheaper than Atlantic which I was expecting to be the best deal. Went to Powergens website to see if I could find out the tariffs.... not a mention.

Can anyone shed any light on this latest powergen deal? Have they reduced the costs in the last few weeks? I'm in Scotland, and others seeing the same results?

Pete

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Pete
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Just went through the same process this afternnon. For my usage over the last year, uswitch claimed that the powergen tariff is cheaper than the amerada one I was on (but not as cheap as the Atlantic one (4% difference across the three). I'm near Cambridge,

The 'product' is "Powergen Energy Online", and the charges are listed in the covering letter.

Dave

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Dave

I looked at this a bit more closely, are it appears that the "Powergen Energy Online" tariff is only available via uswitch. Great! Powergen change my account over and don't even give me a decent tariff.

Pete

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Pete

In my case the u-switch tariff had a discrepancy with the transfer terms in that the transfer terms had higher electric standing charge but higher annual rebate by the same amount. The result was the same both ways. For low to medium gas consumption the Powergen tariff is pretty good.

Alan

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Alan James

"Alan James" wrote in news:giWeb.275$ snipped-for-privacy@newsfep1-win.server.ntli.net:

Since I started the original thread on the Amerada->PowerGen takeover, I thought an update was in order...

As of 29th September we were transferred to Atlantic for electricity - this was far quicker than I expected (based on painful past experience).

Atlantic did also say that gas transfers would take a little longer, but even so our cutover date is 9th October so not that much later.

Quite impressed so far - only gripe is that I was queuing on the 24 hour Atlantic phone line for 20 minutes in order to submit my meter reading - luckily I was at work and have a headset :-)

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Nick Pitfield

In message of Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Nick Pitfield writes

I refuse to use 0870 numbers (too expensive). Didn't they send you a Prepaid (Freepost) envelope. They did me and I sent the meter reading back in that as suggested as an alternative.

DF

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David Floyd

Why not e-mail your reading to Atlantic?

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Peter Rogers

Peter Rogers wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

Didn't notice this as an option otherwise I would have done.

I did get a pre-paid envelope to respond to as well, but since I was sitting at work at 07:30 in the morning it was no big deal to sit in the queue while the kettle was boiling and the toaster was toasting (yes, we have quite a handy works kitchen :-))

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Nick Pitfield

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