October 24 unit costs on Simpler Energy?

I received an email on 3 September.

From 1 October

Standing charge/day 64.27p

Unit rate/kW  24.61p

That’s fine for existing customers, but what about the millions who want to compare OVO’s tariffs to others? I can still only see fixed-rate plans.

Apart from that, it looks from some posts in this forum as if OVO’s Economy plan offpeak rates have increased by much more than 10%, just in time for the heating season to start. Have wholesale prices for night-time electricity increased that much since July?

All the rates seem to be there his morning.  Beware....you need to add VAT at 5% to all the figures.  I wish they would quote the price we actually pay.   If anyone from OVO is reading this ..... would it be possible to put another filter in so we could just see the variable rate tariffs instead of having to scroll past all the fixed rate tariffs??⁵

Hey @Cassie511 I’m glad you’re now able to see your new variable rates 🙂 With regards to advertising the fixed rate plans, I wonder if it’s an OFGEM requirement we show available tariffs including fixed? Might be worth suggesting this as a feature idea & we can propose to our product team.

Are you not yet able to see the variable tariff on your account @Firedog? Did you get your price increase notification letter? 

Yes, they’re there this morning, thanks. However, that’s a bit late for someone who wanted to see whether it was a good idea to switch to OVO or not ahead of the price increase. In the past, forthcoming increased rates have IIRC always been published on the plans page, the switch page and the renewal page so people have time to react in time. I find it strange that this didn’t happen this time.

No, because I’m on a fixed-rate tariff 🙂

It’s a mistake to assume that only existing OVO SVT customers need to know what rates will be charged from the next price-cap change. Was there any particular reason for keeping the new rates secret until they’d entered into force?