Anyone know the price of commercial 3 phase electricity?

[lukewells]

I'm trying to work out what power costs would be for a unit with 3 phase electricity, but it seems that commercial electricity prices are super top secret.
I tried a bunch of price comparison sites, but they all make you fill in loads of questions, only to get to the end to say that you have to call to discuss prices.

So interested to know what would be the per kw and standing charge for low use

Thanks!

 

[strobey]

We're on 3ph E7 at work, 26.7p day, 20.2 night and a 75p/day standing charge.

That's a fairly recent renewal with EDF.

 

[Moonraker]

Yeah, they don't like letting you know - as a yardstick (which was gained after comparing commercial consumption with domestic) I work on it being 3 times the cost of domestic supply and have found it to be fairly accurate.

 

[Pooman2084]

My wife does the leccy for her company. They usually send her some daft quote which she phones and haggles down to about half.

It’s definitely worth a few phone calls rather than just taking the lowest figure online.

 

[DRD]

I run a little industrial estate and electricity/ tenant churn is an absolute nightmare to deal with. It makes little difference to me whether three phase or single, but all hardware connected with a three phase is vastly more expensive than regular consumer stuff.

I avoid online brokers as they besiege you with calls and emails. If you sign up with one it can be on an auto renewal basis whereby they move your supplier about and escaping this arrangement takes time, call centres, high pressure salesmen etc etc

A 40 sqm storage unit with three phase annual consumption of below 100 kwh is with Eon. June 2024 tariff:

1 year, standing charge-56p, kwh-65p

A 60 sqm car repair shop with three phase British Gas-Lite January 2024 tariff ...

1 year, standing charge 40p, kwh 26.31p

I had a new single phase supply installed in a 60 sqm office with a new smart meter. Eon Jan 24 economy 7 tariff

1 year, standing charge 30p, day 35.1p, night 25.4p

If you don't have a smart meter the electricity companies hassle you for monthly readings and if you don't supply one they can use wildly high estimated readings. Tariffs may say that you have to have a smart meter installed but in my experience they sometimes never get round to installing them ! There is a massive backlog for new meter installations.

EDF failed to show up to install a smart meter, they also arranged for a single phase fitter to do a three phase supply ..... EDF pay £30 compensation for each event like this.

You may get a better deal if you can get an economy 7 tariff as these seem to have lower standing charges.

Good luck and may the Force be with you

 

[lukewells]

Thankyou everyone for replying.

It does seem that commercial electricity prices are based on your ability to negotiate

 

[Nickbs]

Thankyou everyone for replying.

It does seem that commercial electricity prices are based on your ability to negotiate

Hi Luke
We’re just going through process of renewing for our light industrial unit which has 3 phase supply (don’t think that directly affects cost though as all about consumption and standing charge).

2 sets of quoted cost options from a broker (including showing their commission) from 2 or 3 months ago and earlier this month as we’ve not yet decided.