General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

The massive increases are based on what the supplier estimates you will use in the following twelve months which in many cases are not accurate as the could be reasons for an overestimation ie. in the case of gas, an old boiler which made have been recently replaced by a new economical boiler which they do not know about or you have moved into a new property where the suppliers have had no previous record of the amount of electricity and gas used in that property as they did not have record of the meter serial numbers to check any previous record of supply with other suppliers.

One of my Daughters moved into a new property and the supplier said that she wound have to pay an amount for the year which I knew was overestimated At the end of the year, she had a credit of £287.36 and her monthly payment was reduced.

People should not allow themselves to be bullied by the suppliers as they are in many cases overestimating the amounts they are saying you will use over the next year in order to recover losses during the pandemic!