Marina Electricity charging

[dignity]

Just received a letter from our marina operator, has from 1st April they are introducing a £50 sur-charge on top of charging for electricity used.

I might be mistaken, but I thought this was against the rules of re-selling electricity?

Could anyone throw anymore light on this subject !!

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[tony_brighton]

I dont believe they can charge extra for the electricity but the loop hole is that they can charge for the provision of the equipment i.e. the outlet on the pontoon. £50 seems a lot for this..

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[supermalc]

If the information I was given by an electrician last year is correct, the law changed so third parties can only charge 10% more than the average price of the supplier to the consumer.

BW electric cards were reduced, a £15 card is now £6.40. To compensate, showers use 3 units instead of 1, and pumpouts 30 instead of 12.

I was expecting a loophole to appear somewhere.

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[perlonious]

lucky you......in my marina on the hamble they used to charge 11.75 p per unit...
with a min £11.75 per qtr chargable. so unless u were polishing your hull every week its virtually impossible to use up your units, despite them being double the price of your domestic elec.

the law changed so they can't charge more than the unit price.......but......then they put on their dick turpin mask.......they can charge what every they like for the facilities.

this has resulted in no min charge and you can use as many units as you like..........for the kings ransom of £182 per year.

baring in mind my bill for a 4 bed house per year is only about £300 seems just a bit much......but then that s why they have managed to keep the maina fees down
to only a 23% rise this year.......


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[maha]

rip off barstards!!!!!

Welcome to the world of owning a boat in the uk......

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[Trevethan]

Limehouse in London have just gone from a flat fee (£30 a month or so I think) to meters. They installed them yesterday and put up a note saying that each meter had a £10 credit on it, which they said was enough to last a typical user until the weekend.

Having used the microwave a bit last nighjt and had the immerssion on for an hour or two, we have consume 3 units -- out of 26 loaded onto the meter -- at this rate I reckon we'll consume 6 to 10 units a day -- which works out at about £4 or £120 a month -- seems like a rip-off to me -- we don't have masses of electrical gear. cooking is parafin, heating is diesel. There is a 50 amp charger plugged in, but its always showing trickle charge.
There is a 500 watt panel heater that protects against frost -- probably kicked in last night but still....


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[sailorman]

we pay £10 per month wnen we use power
10 Amp supply 24/7

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[rickwat]

Elec 21.03p/unit at Fleetwood

but at least they don't rip us off with hidden charges !!!!!!!!!!!

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[rickwat]

Correction 17.9p+VAT Fleetwood NM

NM =No Message

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[Whoosh]

We're truly enjoying our extended stay in England but I must say I sympathize with Maha. It has been pretty amazing to us how a country with such a rich maritime tradition forces such high costs on its yachtsmen/women for virtually everything while providing some pretty minimal facilities and unimpressive service levels with not many exceptions. I've seen the issue of electrical charges being ranted about for quite some time in PBO but apparently there's little sympathy for all us 'rich yachties'. (And how someone can afford to purchase a boat in the first place...ahh, I guess that takes us in a different direction).

Jack

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[DeeGee]

As I understand it, the law has changed and the marina can only charge you:

a) for the electricity, the price they paid for it.

b) for the facility to supply (maintenance of wiring, etc) - your pro rata share of the usage. that means if 150 boats share the facility, then 1/150th of the total cost of annual writeoff and maintenance, and, once written off, only maintenance. In other words, they are not supposed to make a profit out of you.

In reality, there is nothing to stop them invoicing you for goodness knows what, but if you don't pay, then they would have difficulty getting the money - except you may find yourself kicked out.... ;-)

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[DeeGee]

try reading <A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.energywatch.org.uk/consumer_info/max_resale_price/index.asp>this</A>

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[DeeGee]

try reading <A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.energywatch.org.uk/consumer_info/max_resale_price/index.asp>this</A>

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[Oldhand]

Thanks for publicly advertising this scam so all the other marina operators who haven't thought of it yet will now join the club.

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