By carefully monitoring how we use electricity in the house, we’ve got our consumption down to around 550W average over the year (down from a peak of 1.75kW five years ago). With our urban location, generating our own power isn’t an option, so after shopping around the ‘green’ credentials of the various companies, we were eventually were persuaded by Good Energy.

We’ve just had a letter from them to tell us that they’re bringing their prices down in line with the falling market prices. Our bill is made up of a ‘per kWh’ usage component, plus a ‘per day’ standing charge. I would have thought that a genuinely ‘green’ company would do everything it could to minimise the standing charge ,and maximise the usage charge, so as to encourage customers to reduce their usage as much as possible.

Sadly, as the graph shows,  it appears that Good Energy don’t share this view…

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