Climate levy on marina electricity invoice

[Momac]

I just received my marina electricity bill for three months from the start of Dec 2018.
A climate levy has been added. It is a small amount , 0.583p per unit, however this has not previously been shown separately on the invoice. This is on top of the 16.94p per unit charge for the electricity.
Is it correct that the levy is charged to me as a marina customer ?
Perhaps this has been included previously but not stated on the invoice?

 

[Croftie]

Perhaps this has been included previously but not stated on the invoice?

Quite probably I would think. CCL is not a tax like VAT that the marina can claim back directly

 

[Irish Rover]

I just received my marina electricity bill for three months from the start of Dec 2018.
A climate levy has been added. It is a small amount , 0.583p per unit, however this has not previously been shown separately on the invoice. This is on top of the 16.94p per unit charge for the electricity.
Is it correct that the levy is charged to me as a marina customer ?
Perhaps this has been included previously but not stated on the invoice?

From what I can see you're only paying around 25% mark-up on the usual domestic rate in the UK so count yourself lucky. I'm not sure what the mark-up is here but the marina manager seemed relieved the other day when I suggested it was around 400% so I guess it's more than that. I'd say most marina's in Greece are also screwing us by factors of 3 or 4.

 

[jrudge]

It is illegal to markup Electricity in the UK.

https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/ofgem-publications/74486/11782-resaleupdateoct05pdf


Done to protected tenants etc. This is or domestic supply and I would imagine this is domestic ( it is not commercial). Boats are not listed but caravans are.

 

[tico]

Might be illegal to mark up the electricity but still legal to add a rapacious 'service charge' per unit!

 

[jrudge]

No it isn't!

 

[Sneaky Pete]

No it isn't!

Could you explain this one? I understand that you can only charge electricity at the price you buy it at and no mark up on it. However in order to get round this marinas locally are putting a service charge for each month in use. Are you saying that this too is illegal?

 

[jrudge]

I can't cut and paste from the doc link for some reason .

But in essence no. They can recover THEIR OWN electric by service charge ( so the office bill, and probably marina lighting) and must divide the electric standing charge pro rata. So if they are adding a service charge for the provision of electricity then this per my reading is illegal.

I wish they had it I'm Mallorca. In Palma in the summer if costs me £40 a day. At home I run a highly insulated 5 bed house elec and gas for £137 per month!

It was put in place years ago as rogue landlords were marking up electric.

That was just one link, but there are plenty on line.

 

[Momac]

For the avoidance of doubt my boat is in England. I have sympathy with those who have been ripped off abroad but that is not my concern at the moment.
I feel the climate change levy should not be paid by marina beholders nor should the marina have to pay the levy on the energy consumed by its customers.
The climate change levy is paid by business users only so this should be paid by the marina only on the energy it uses for its business.
Is this correct?
It is a small sum but I want to know whether the charge being passed on to me on top of the charge for my electrical energy use is correct. as the us eon the boat is entirely domestic (not for business) I think the levy should not apply to me nor any other marina customer