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Do you still pay the same standing charge? That's where a lot of the cost seems to have shifted (on my non-variable tariff at least).

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For some reason the standing charge is a bit less too.

The higher the standing charge as a percentage of the final cost, the less motivation there is to respond to the price signal, which is part of the point of providing varying prices to the end user.

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