Just found out that my electric bills at work have a standing charge of nearly £3 per day What is it for? Anyone?

 

Its the rental for the cable to get the electricity to your place

To be honest, I thought that standing charges were dropped years ago


While I have your attention - do you stock or can you obtain ferodo DS2500 brake pads for any application?

 

its like line rental on your phone bill, your paying a set chatge for the privelige of having a fat cable coming to your door

 

Its a connection charge.

 

look at it like a mobile phone contract...

with pay as you go there is no standing charge but calls and texts cost more.

With a contact you pay a monthly fee but calls and texts are alot cheaper.

Same with gas and electric.

You will have a lower unit rate beacuse you pay a standing charge...

 

Ok, now understanding. Need to work out if it would be better to pay more and have no standing charge. £900 a year is enough for a standing charge..

 

Yes

 

Cheers Martin - You have PM

 

Good analogy.

I know someone who swapped to a new provider with "no standing charge" but the effect was that his bills went up overall due to the price per unit.

 

I've just done this! Haven't had the quarterly bill yet to show my actual usage but I was assured that the prices of the units would be same as my original supplier, but basically without the standing charge.... Shall see I guess!

 

i work for scottish power part time selling gas and electric whilst im at uni


there is no dif in annual bills between SC and NSC if u are an averge user.

standing charge - u will be charged a set rate every day plus one rate only for each gas and elec unit u use.

No standing charge - u will be charged a higher rate for the first 225kwh elec used in the quarter and 1143 for gas used in the quarter. Over and above these ammounts u will be charged a lower rate, usually much lower.


pay attention to the unit rates and not whether it is NSC or SC

if u are a really low user use NSC