TEMPO tariff or not TEMPO tariff

[George1]

The resurgence of EDF's Tempo tarif

This subject has a previous discussion over at Tempo for Gite? but I thought it deserves more information. This post is not here to explain the tarif itself as that is already available from the horse’s mouth. The reason for this post is to give more background & to relay my recent experience in applying to EDF to change from my existing HC/HP tarif to Tempo. As an electrician I have always been aware of the Tempo tarif but it has been in the doldrums for many years it was not possible to have it when opening a new contract. That has recently changed & now anyone with a 9kVA subscription (or higher) can ask for it & if you have a Linky meter the change is free & requires no physical intervention at your property. Having looked at the current costs (yes, I know they will go up along with all the other tarifs) I discovered that the standing charge/abonnement is slightly cheaper than HC/HP. That’s win number 1! Win number 2 is that of the 6 different price levels for Tempo 4 of them…

Here is the link to the earlier lengthy thread on Tempo fyi.

We changed to Tempo in November and are pleased we did so. You do have to be quite disciplined and organised - as others have said - to plan ahead on when to run energy greedy appliances…

Our annual bill will probably rise by 3% but that’s due to getting an EV, not Tempo.