Business Electricity

[locutus]

I'm trying to get business electricity quotes, but most website wants you to phone them.

Are there any providers, or comparison websites that offer online quotes?

 

[Darren_Ssc]

EDF

 

[Paul Norman]

As above. I feel your pain.

Despite getting four and a half million calls a nano second from people wanting to sell us electricity, no one is prepared to put anything in writing.

 

[Alison Moore]

Compare the Market claim to do business energy, but I think all they really do is put you in contact with an agency who will compare prices for you...

 

[paulears]

Indeed they do - getting a supplier is crazily difficult. I moved in 5 months ago, and most suppliers when you call them will ask your estimated consumption. The magic figure is 12 thousand KiloWatt hours a year. Below this, and they say no. I called the people on my meter. Nope. I even called my domestic supplier and spoke to their business people - they said no too. In the end you have to use one of the agents, and they found me British Gas Light - one of the few willing to supply people below the 12K limit. Apparently so many small businesses closed, leaving them with a bad taste - so they just just don't want small businesses. British Gas Light was, in fairness, the first toileting say yes - but their rate was about the same as my domestic supply so I just went with it and it's been quite smooth so far. Water is exactly the same - finding a supplier for that was just as hard.

 

[NickGrogan]

Most of the suppliers have online pricing tools, go compare have an online pricing tool for businesses.

It helps if you know your mpan (electricity) and mprn (gas), so that you get prices for the right supply.

Happy to help via email/online chat if you don't want to use the phone.

 

[Darren_Ssc]

The magic figure is 12 thousand KiloWatt hours a year. Below this, and they say no. I

I have feed in from solar panels so my consumption is negligable.

I didn't have any such problems

 

[paulears]

Since covid?

 

[Darren_Ssc]

Since covid?

Yes, logged on EDF, chose tarrif, submitted reading, job done.

Accepting I don't need to shop around since I'm basically only paying standing charge and minimal consumption.

 

[paulears]

I tried edf and quite a few bigger names and before we’d even talked about rates was told no go. Maybe it’s a postcode thing? This 12 thousand units came up every time and when they discovered it was an office with just lights and computers they couldn’t go any further.

 

[Andy Harris]

There are bucketloads of energy optimisation companies out there. usually they come to you (on the phone trying to analyse your costs so they can beat them) so you must be one of the few not on their list! Just search Google for 'business energy costs' and you'll find loads of them.

 

[Darren_Ssc]

I tried edf and quite a few bigger names and before we’d even talked about rates was told no go. Maybe it’s a postcode thing? This 12 thousand units came up every time and when they discovered it was an office with just lights and computers they couldn’t go any further.

I went with EDF because the previous tenant was with them. I actually had my account set up when I discovered they'd transferred his old account to me so I then had two accounts at slightly different addresses. It was a bit of a mess but I got it sorted eventually.

In all the confusion maybe I by-passed some obstacle?

 

[intheTRADE]

https://www.energylinxforbusiness.co.uk/