nowtta60
Well-known member
Hi all,
Getting my car in a few weeks and have decided to look around at what the latest offers are. Are there any companies offering special tariffs for EV owners other than Ecotricity?
Currently with Good Energy who aren't the cheapest (but 100% Renewable sourced).
However I think with my electric usage about to more than double from about 2,500kWh/yr to around 6000kWh/yr based on my expected usage of the i3, I think it's time to get a better price. I use about 13,000kWh of gas too so looking at the dual fuel options.
There's 2 suppliers come up trumps at the moment... bizarely neither on them is fossil based, which I wasn't expecting....
EdF with the Blue Price promise... 100% Nuclear tariff, and unit rates of £0.146 day / £0.058 night in my area (old East Midlands - now E.On). No contract so free to leave at any time.
Or Co-op with their FairSquare March2016 fixed price which is about 60% renewable, and only £0.114 on the day tariff and £0.0717 on the night.
I had considered Ecotricity as they run the electric highway across the country and thought it might mean continued free access in future for their customers, but they are almost as expensive as E.on, despite a £40 yearly EV discount. Duel fuel is £270 a year more than Co-op and £30 more than Good Energy.
Overall Co-op comes in a few quid lower than EdF no matter what mix of day, night and gas units I stick in my spreadsheet. I used to write energy billing software so ignore all the average quotes on switch sites and work out my expected day and night unit mix and work it out myself. Not that difficult on domestic tariffs.
That said the price difference comes in less than £3/month and I think it would be cool to say my i3 is nuclear powered. LOL. Reading on their site it has no CO2 emissions (though Sustainable energy without hot air estimate is at 1.5g/kWh so more like = 9kg / year for my 6000 kWh. More importantly nuclear waste is about 48g / year. So probably less than the size of a golf ball, but it does need to be stored for 1,000 years, unless they start building fast breeder reactors to burn up all the old waste as well as new uranium. http://www.withouthotair.com/c24/page_169.shtml
The whole thing has got me thinking about converting my house to run an ASHP again. Would mean next to no carbon emissions from house or car (REX excepted) and not much more cost than running a gas boiler (which I'd keep as a backup anyway).
Hmmmn. Decisions.
Anyway I'm getting carried away. Was really interested to see if there are any special deals for EV owners.
Cheers,
Getting my car in a few weeks and have decided to look around at what the latest offers are. Are there any companies offering special tariffs for EV owners other than Ecotricity?
Currently with Good Energy who aren't the cheapest (but 100% Renewable sourced).
However I think with my electric usage about to more than double from about 2,500kWh/yr to around 6000kWh/yr based on my expected usage of the i3, I think it's time to get a better price. I use about 13,000kWh of gas too so looking at the dual fuel options.
There's 2 suppliers come up trumps at the moment... bizarely neither on them is fossil based, which I wasn't expecting....
EdF with the Blue Price promise... 100% Nuclear tariff, and unit rates of £0.146 day / £0.058 night in my area (old East Midlands - now E.On). No contract so free to leave at any time.
Or Co-op with their FairSquare March2016 fixed price which is about 60% renewable, and only £0.114 on the day tariff and £0.0717 on the night.
I had considered Ecotricity as they run the electric highway across the country and thought it might mean continued free access in future for their customers, but they are almost as expensive as E.on, despite a £40 yearly EV discount. Duel fuel is £270 a year more than Co-op and £30 more than Good Energy.
Overall Co-op comes in a few quid lower than EdF no matter what mix of day, night and gas units I stick in my spreadsheet. I used to write energy billing software so ignore all the average quotes on switch sites and work out my expected day and night unit mix and work it out myself. Not that difficult on domestic tariffs.
That said the price difference comes in less than £3/month and I think it would be cool to say my i3 is nuclear powered. LOL. Reading on their site it has no CO2 emissions (though Sustainable energy without hot air estimate is at 1.5g/kWh so more like = 9kg / year for my 6000 kWh. More importantly nuclear waste is about 48g / year. So probably less than the size of a golf ball, but it does need to be stored for 1,000 years, unless they start building fast breeder reactors to burn up all the old waste as well as new uranium. http://www.withouthotair.com/c24/page_169.shtml
The whole thing has got me thinking about converting my house to run an ASHP again. Would mean next to no carbon emissions from house or car (REX excepted) and not much more cost than running a gas boiler (which I'd keep as a backup anyway).
Hmmmn. Decisions.
Anyway I'm getting carried away. Was really interested to see if there are any special deals for EV owners.
Cheers,