It's time for me to switch energy providers as has sadly become necessary every 12 months. The price comparison sites recommend this new outfit Powershop, backed by nPower. Their bog standard tariff is quite competitive but they have a gimmick contract where you have a slightly higher standard tariff as a fall back, but you can supposedly save hundreds of pounds a year by buying discounted 'Powerpacks' of energy through their app. What's the idea? Is it simply they offer you a discount for buying in advance, is that literally all it is? Does anyone have any experience with this kind of thing? Is it worth the faff? Probably not I bet.
>Does anyone have any experience with this kind of thing?
Evidently not.
On the face of it, the whole scheme seems deliberately abstruse; I expect that it's theoretically cheaper if you do a ton of dicking about with "powerpacks" and whatnot, but no cheaper in practice than an ordinary tariff. I can't work out what possible business case there would be for these powerpacks, other than the cynical assumption that most customers won't actually bother to buy them and pay higher prices as a result.
