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Old 05-11-2021, 00:03   #241
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Ofgem must be very busy atm, finding new homes for everyone.
Agreed and it's work they created for themselves.

As the boss of Octopus said, energy companies should have to buy energy in advance to match the tariffs they are offering their customers. If they just gamble on energy prices falling all the time, then they will get caught out when prices rise. The extra costs from companies not doing this and failing result in extra admin for Ofgem and these costs are passed onto us consumers.
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Agreed and it's work they created for themselves.

As the boss of Octopus said, energy companies should have to buy energy in advance to match the tariffs they are offering their customers. If they just gamble on energy prices falling all the time, then they will get caught out when prices rise. The extra costs from companies not doing this and failing result in extra admin for Ofgem and these costs are passed onto us consumers.
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Re: Energy companies collapse

2 more energy firms cease trading.
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Neon Reef and Social Energy Supply, which have over 35,000 household customers between them, have become the latest energy providers to cease trading – meaning 19 domestic energy suppliers have gone bust since September.
https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/ne...JLmFF22mCAtNik
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Re: Energy companies collapse

Despite all the doomy predictions, Bulb are still going.
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Old 17-11-2021, 09:38   #245
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Re: Energy companies collapse

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Despite all the doomy predictions, Bulb are still going.
I think they are getting help on the QT. Too many customers to lose. With their pricing structure though at least they have not lost as much as those who were honoring massive loss inducing deals
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I think they are getting help on the QT. Too many customers to lose. With their pricing structure though at least they have not lost as much as those who were honoring massive loss inducing deals
Yes, they don’t do fixed rates or introductory bribes - just one basic rate (although they do now also offer an economy electricity tariff for EV owners). I guess this may have made business planning slightly simpler for them. It has certainly given them the necessary flexibility to move all their customers onto the Ofgem maximum tariff.

They installed our smart meter last week and against all expectations it has done something useful. All three teenagers in our house used the electric shower last night so we got a timely reminder of what it looks like when a 10kW appliance runs for about an hour, more or less continuously. It was eye-watering. I’ll be having a word.
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Yes, they don’t do fixed rates or introductory bribes - just one basic rate (although they do now also offer an economy electricity tariff for EV owners). I guess this may have made business planning slightly simpler for them. It has certainly given them the necessary flexibility to move all their customers onto the Ofgem maximum tariff.

They installed our smart meter last week and against all expectations it has done something useful. All three teenagers in our house used the electric shower last night so we got a timely reminder of what it looks like when a 10kW appliance runs for about an hour, more or less continuously. It was eye-watering. I’ll be having a word.
they used to do introductory bribes as I almost got all my gas paid for one year by referring people
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Old 17-11-2021, 10:06   #248
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Yes, they don’t do fixed rates or introductory bribes - just one basic rate (although they do now also offer an economy electricity tariff for EV owners). I guess this may have made business planning slightly simpler for them. It has certainly given them the necessary flexibility to move all their customers onto the Ofgem maximum tariff.

They installed our smart meter last week and against all expectations it has done something useful. All three teenagers in our house used the electric shower last night so we got a timely reminder of what it looks like when a 10kW appliance runs for about an hour, more or less continuously. It was eye-watering. I’ll be having a word.
You've got teenagers that take a shower
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Re: Energy companies collapse

that is £2 quid gone poof just like that

Mind you a 10KW shower must be awesome
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that is £2 quid gone poof just like that

Mind you a 10KW shower must be awesome
I should report you to the Woke Police for that.
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they used to do introductory bribes as I almost got all my gas paid for one year by referring people
Yeah sorry I was meaning bribes as in reduced rate tariffs for the first six months and that sort of thing - stuff that would hamper their flexibility if they needed to suddenly increase their tariffs. Some other energy companies have found themselves selling at a significant loss in recent months because they have customers on those sorts of deals.
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Re: Energy companies collapse

And now Bulb teeters on the brink …

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-59373198

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We appear to have reached the point where the customer reassignment process is broken.

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This measure is only used if Ofgem is unable to find another company to take over an energy firm's customers.
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From Bulb website.

https://bulb.co.uk/blog/bulb-special-administration/

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Special administration is designed to protect the customers of a large energy supplier that’s become insolvent. The special administrator is required by the Government under the 2011 Energy Act to continue to supply energy to customers, and will protect customer credit balances. The process to appoint special administrators is not yet complete but we expect them to be appointed shortly.
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We had just switched to Green Energy from GOTO Energy, had only been with them for one month and had received back all our credit balance from GOTO. Then Green went under. So luckily I'm not in the hole moneywise.

I took meter readings the day Green went under and cancelled my Direct Debit.

I had an email saying I was being switched to Shell, but that was several weeks ago and heard nothing since. So I'll just bank what I was paying monthly to one side and wait.
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Re: Energy companies collapse

I moved from Bulb to Shell in April this year, and have found them to be OK.

They, in fact, reduced my DD from £122 to £103 in August...
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