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It’s the other way round – if a rich person has 10 in UK they hardly ever in, they won’t be paying fees. If there are multiple people renting and sharing a house they will be paying more, paying for the empty rich houses.
Anyway, not sure what the big deal is?
Internet has a socket charge, TV has a “TV license” on top of any other live TV subscription, even cars have a road tax. It’s all there under different names – so what’s a big deal with 30-50p a day electricity connection charge?“so what’s a big deal with a £182pa electricity connection charge?”
Guess you’re one of them rich people, with talk like that. My mum on the other hand has to be very frugal with her energy usage and the standing charges amount to a significant percentage of her overall costs.
I wouldn’t be so forthcoming in announcing to the world you let your mother go to such ordeals.
Who says that I do? The point I’m making isn’t meant to be about me.
No standing charges would be a massive subsidy to the rich who own multiple ones. That’s why such tariffs were, with some exceptions, abolished a few years ago.
Still doesn’t make much sense. These charges will be peanuts for rich people.
Keep it simple by charging a flat rate for usage like petrol. If the poorest need subsidies, target them directly.Add in a new layer of means testing for poor people and employ another army of assessors to demean people? OK.
It’s the other way round – if a rich person has 10 in UK they hardly ever in, they won’t be paying fees. If there are multiple people renting and sharing a house they will be paying more, paying for the empty rich houses.
If a rich guy owns 10 (I assume you mean properties) which are all empty then they won’t be incurring any costs except for a few pennies of electricity for a computer to produce a bill a few times a year. Currently the rich guy is getting charged to pay for other people to get smart meters and to send debt collectors to people who don’t pay.
Octopus are fine for manual card payments and happy for you to set your direct debit payments low too. Mine is set at £5 a month. If you sign up using the link below, we’ll both get £50.
https://share.octopus.energy/metal-cliff-443Decision made; I’m not happy with the Sainsburys Energy customer service, so will be moving to Octopus. My mum is a customer of theirs, so I’m going to use her referral link, sorry Harrier.
Thanks everyone for answers and suggestions.Octopus will also allow you to pay on an actual use basis. So they’ll bill you for exactly what you use each month (and collect the DD) rather than build up credit with a fixed monthly charge.
Are octopus tariffs competitive if you don’t have an EV?
Yep, call Octopus and ask for variable direct debit – tbh I’m not sure why this isn’t a default option.
Probably as it’s easier for majority people to pay £150 every month than £30 in summer – waste excess and £500 in winter and struggle..Don’t do a variable DD! That is not HfP behaviour!
Change the DD to £1 and top up with a credit card (they accept Amex), or use Zilch to get 2% cashback. £5 free if you join Zilch via this link: https://customers.payzilch.com/signup?inviteCode=c2KwCI
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