Anomnomnomaly BSC SSC<p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/SolarUpdate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SolarUpdate</span></a> </p><p>My energy provider continues to be idiotic.</p><p>I actually had a moan at them last week because they recommended upping my monthly payment to £130 from it's current £100 after I switched to a fixed tariff to avoid the price rises from the 1st April.</p><p>They estimated my bills for the next 7 months at around £700, when based on the last 2yrs data... they would be in the £400 range and wanted us to make just over £900 in payments.</p><p>As we had £655 credit on the account already, this would have given us a credit in the region of £900-1000</p><p>So I told them off, gave them far more accurate figures (it's not like they don't have access to the smart meters and can actually see this for themselves).</p><p>They agreed to leave the payments at £100 which will not only gives us a healthy credit to protect from sudden larger bills next winter... But leaves the total monthly budget for the whole house, at a set level without any surprises.</p><p>So what do I find today... They've 'adjusted' their predictions to an even more ridiculous level, this time swinging so far under... that they're recommending the monthly payment (for gas & electric) should be £45.36... or a 55% reduction just a couple of weeks after recommending a 30% INCREASE.</p><p>Utterly stupid.</p><p>But not only that, some of the predictions they're making for bills are so stupid and so out of touch that they're laughable.</p><p>Like predicting we will use ZERO amount of gas for April through August, when we will still be using gas for hot water.</p><p>Predicting the total bills for June & July as £7... not a typo. Given the standing charges alone are about £30 a month and the most we've ever earned from solar export was £27 in a single month.</p><p>So here's their predictions with the last 12 months of actual bills in brackets.</p><p>March £118 (2 days ago it was £168, actual bill was £94)<br>April £67 (last year was £104)<br>May £30 (last year was £42<br>June £5 (last year £13<br>July £2 (last year £32)<br>Aug £14 (last year £34)<br>Sept £38 (last year £50)<br>Oct £89 (last year £108)<br>Nov £134 (last year £192)<br>Dec £174 (last year £207)<br>Jan £184 (this year £223)<br>Feb £152 (this year £185)</p><p>So, they think that 2 weeks after predicting our bills at around £700 between March-Sept and asking for £900 in payments for that period... We will now have bills totalling... £274 and they want payments of £371.86 (6x £45.36 as March already paid @ £100)</p><p>When the actual bills last year were about £380 for the same period and we'd paid £700 in monthly bills (we build up summer credit because we easily have £200 a month bills from Nov-Feb due to heating and less sunlight).</p><p>They have over 2yrs of data with the solar system in place and still don't have a clue that the actual import of energy is between 1800-2000kwh a year and now they seem to be assuming it's going to be around 1400kwh.</p><p>Thankfully, they're only recommending lowering the payments at this time.</p><p>But FFS, how can they go from recommending £130 2 weeks ago to recommending £45 now... If they're using some kind of AI to do these predictions... it just further proves how shite they are.</p><p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/Solar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Solar</span></a> <br><a href="https://beige.party/tags/Battery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Battery</span></a> <br><a href="https://beige.party/tags/GoingGreen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GoingGreen</span></a> <br><a href="https://beige.party/tags/Octopus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Octopus</span></a> <br><a href="https://beige.party/tags/DumbPredictiveBilling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DumbPredictiveBilling</span></a></p>