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Current cost of Gas and Electricity - non-Domestic

AncientMariner

I am trying to guesstimate future Gas and Electric costs for our village hall. Currently we are still in a fixed contract for Gas at 2.36p per kWh + CCL and VAT and for Electricity at 18.883p per kWh again plus CCCL and VAT.

Very much a crystal ball job, I know; but we in contract until next year and I am trying to prepare both the Committee and the regular users that costs will be going up unless they want to wear an extra layer or two.

So, I am looking for the current per kWh costs for each.  I know that it will change by the time our contract runs out.

Many thanks.

Clive

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    Could someone explain why the standing charge needs to be increased - so much or at all?

  • 0 in reply to geoffsd

    It's no longer just the cost of delivering gas or electricity to you.  You can also add environmental levies, and the substantial costs involved in transferring across the customers of failed energy companies (including any credit balance they may have had).

    Unfortunately, the government deregulated the energy system so much that fly-by-night companies were set up, with no assets to back them up.  These companies took substantial amounts of money from customers, for energy paid in advance.  When these energy companies fold, everybody else has to pay the costs of transferring the customers to new suppliers, including reinstating the now vanished account credit.

    Most of that extra cost is added to the electricity standing charge, as not everybody has gas.

    (A little bit of those environmental levies go to me, as someone who has solar panels registered under the FIT scheme)

  • 0 in reply to Simon Barker

    Are you saying that had the price of electricity not increased due to all the stated reasons, the standing charge still would have (to the present and proposed levels)?

    If not, why not?

  • 0 in reply to geoffsd

    If the unit price of energy hadn't gone up so much, then all the little suppliers wouldn't have gone bust, and the bill payers wouldn't be picking up the tab in the form of increased standing charges.

    The green levies are at the whim of the government.  It's a hidden tax.

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  • 0 in reply to geoffsd

    If the unit price of energy hadn't gone up so much, then all the little suppliers wouldn't have gone bust, and the bill payers wouldn't be picking up the tab in the form of increased standing charges.

    The green levies are at the whim of the government.  It's a hidden tax.

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