We have been with Contact since moving to Hastings in 2002 and have never contemplated changing providers.
Our April Bill has just arrived and has jumped almost exactly $70 on March with one less day in the month and no obvious extra useage that mrspdm and I can think of. Earlier in the year we had notice that cost of Power would be increasing through fixed charges by (I think) $10 or maybe even $20 a month. But, certainly not $70 and winter has not even started yet – so we have used no heating in April.
We have a heat pump but, never ever, use it for cooling. By opening our front and back doors and all our windows we almost always get a reasonable breeze through our unit in the summer months.
Another factor that has prompted us to look for a new supplier is customer service. Until the last 5 years, maybe the advent of Covid, or so this has dropped right away with Contact. Up until then when we called Contact with a query our call was answered within about 30 seconds almost every time. Not that we called that often. Now one waits for what seems like the duration for a real person to come on the line – not that we would expect anything different from a new supplier.
Has your Power Bill taken a big jump this month and if so what are you going to do about it?
Tell us in the comments.
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Difficult to track as it makes a big difference when we have kids home for holidays or we’re away from home.
https://imgur.com/a/0xcef41
Interestingly our gas (bottom 2 charts, hot water only) is well down. Definitely put that down to kids being away so the shower not being used as a standup spa pool
JJO it occurred to us after I had done the post that we had 19 & 15 year old granddaughters staying over Easter. They too liked long showers so that probably contributed somewhat.
I have just transferred from Genesis (their destruction of productive farmland for non-mirrors is unforgivable) to Mercury (They promised good communication),
Don’t do likewise.
when Contact made my wife redundant (with prejudice because the senior management are dumb and nasty) we left Contact out of principle.
Colour us surprised when we found Powershop provided cheaper lectric than the “super special cheap contact staff rates”.
And when I say cheaper, Powershop were significantly cheaper.
Ours has gone up by about the same amount, but a lot of the problem is inflation, not price rises. I mean real inflation not the carefully picked basket called Consumer Price Index.