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Hurrah! The cost per unit of electricity is coming down, as predicted but the standing charges are increasing.
Very disappointed and angry about it
BBC News - Typical energy bill to fall £238 a year from April under new price cap
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Perhaps they could go back to the charging system they had years ago where the first N units cost more than the remaining ones ie, in effect the first N units paid the standing charge. That way empty properties would pay no standing charge and people who managed to could their usage to less than N would pay a smaller amount.
The iniquitous Standing Charge hits low users like me disproportionately - when I first moved to this house I was on a 'no standing charge' tariff, where you pay a bit more per unit, but no standing charge, a much better deal for low users. All suppliers were instructed to get rid of it.
My last quarterly gas and electric standing charges were both higher than what I'd actually used.
Standing charges cover the fixed costs of a company, which the company should cover itself out of their vast profits.
There is zero justification for demanding the customer pays what is the company's costs. Unit cost should be the only thing charged for because it is the only thing purchased.
What next, the local supermarkets claiming it has rent & rates to pay so everone in the area must cough up whether they shopped there or not ?
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