I wrote a little while ago about investigating my power and changing to a lower use rate – this gives a higher unit rate but lower daily charge. My bill came in last week and working out old plan vs new plan I saved $5.30 last month by changing plans. I’ve set up a spreadsheet so I can easily see each month if this plan stops being economical. A really long brochure (40cm long!) got posted to me from Meridian over the week – not sure why an environmentally aware company couldn’t have given me the same information on a smaller piece of advertising? They are trying to grab new customers by offering deals:
q Fixing rate for two years, 11% discount for prompt payment and paying electronically
q 10% prompt discount with a bucket of Ecostore products
q 10% prompt discount with 6 months magazine subscription/6 month Fatso subscription.
(conditions apply).
According to http://www.consumer.org.nz/powerswitch/ calculator I am a little better off with Genesis than Meridian but I know that new/old customers often get different rates than the standard rate on the websites so it might be worth ringing Meridian. In the meantime have to run – have to go pick up a secondhand bookcase from Trade Me, can’t wait to get all my books out of storage.