15 Sep 2009 10:30 AM:

I appreciate that this thread is now quite old, but I'd like to throw a related issue into the arena (particularly for Michael Hardy).  I moved permanently to Spain in December 2008 and received my first Iberdrola bill in February.  I compared the standing and price per kwh charges with a neighbours bill and found his to be lower in both cases.  When I looked more closely I discovered the following differences:  his bill headed "Factura de Electricidad", my bill headed "Factura de Energia Verde (Electricidad)" (green energy), his bill with a tarifa of 2.0.3, mine with a tarifa of ATR2.0A (and Contrato of TLR42).  Now I didn't ask for green energy, in fact my developer did the electricitry application (and claims also to not have asked for green energy).  Should you be concerned - I think yes - simply because in the 4 months we remained on that 'tariff', we paid 140 euros more than we would have done if we'd be on 2.0.3.  We've now moved to a different tariff altogether, but I'm still arguing with Iberdrola (who seem grossly incompetent - or is that just Spain in general!) about a refund for being on the wrong tariff.

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