Not seen anything yet, but hopefully soon

https://www.ovoenergy.com/pricecap

Why don’t they just list the standing charge and unit rate instead of all this average household nonsense. No other prices are marked up like this. It’s like just like pulling into a petrol station and the price listing saying the average person will spend X on petrol a year if they filled up here instead of price per litre!!

They do, at https://plans.ovoenergy.com .

If you chuck in random postcodes, you can get the entire country.

Yes, sorry. I meant when listing the EPC and EPG. 

Ahh… Yeah, that’s unfortunately too complicated to do I’m afraid. The page would just be a giant messy table if they did that.

I disagree

They should just list the standing charge and price per unit. People aren’t as stupid as they think. We know that if a loaf of bread cost 50p then if we buy 4 loaves it will cost us £2  if you instead tell us the average person spends £60 a year on bread that doesn’t tell us how much bread costs! 

And then everyone will moan that they’re 0.1p/kWh over the “cap” because they’re in a slightly more expensive region...

Hey @Bonzo 

I understand your thinking on this as at first it sounds like it would be a straight set of numbers but this wouldn’t be the case, and as Blastoise has mentioned, this would become quite messy, and not just for suppliers but the likes of Ofgem and the distribution network operators too, and raise question from people in slightly more expensive regions.

Instead, suppliers are legally required to detail clearly the standing charges and unit rates for every customer on every tariff available to them - so you can see straight away your own rates, the same as if you were to look at the tariffs online, you can view right there what your rates would be, rather than having to go off to another site to find them. 

There are a number of reasons why energy prices are different across the country such as; how much energy suppliers can sell to customers in that region, how much energy suppliers buy from the national grid or how much the local energy distributors in the region charge suppliers for that energy.

Rates can also differ slightly by supplier and by tariff, so some tariffs with additional perks for example may have slightly cheaper rates.

The EPC and EPG are always the same for everyone across the country this doesn’t vary at all, so no matter whether someone is in a slightly more expensive region for their rates, they’ll not pay, on average, more than the EPC/EPG for their bills. 

In general, most things are cheaper when bought in bulk, and the same goes for energy. Suppliers will spend more in the wholesale markets if they have the customers to sell to.

Some regions use more gas and electricity than others but that doesn't necessarily mean that their supply will be cheapest.

I’m sure that these processes are reviewed and thoroughly discussed before coming to the decision to set things up in this way. 

There’s a good link here to a helpful Uswitch page if you’re interested.