How To Top Up Electricity Key
It s important to keep your gas and electricity meters topped up.
How to top up electricity key. The credit you buy will be added to your key or card. Topping up it s easy to top up you can top up at any payzone paypoint or post office. Put your key or card into the meter for at least a minute to activate it. Zara gets excitement to top up the electric key only to get shy at the end.
All electricity suppliers are replacing smart card meters smartpower with key meters. Gas meters hold a maximum of 999. You can top up a maximum amount of 49 per transaction on your key or card and your electricity meter will hold up to 249. When your electricity meter beeps it s a warning that you ve got less than 50p of credit left.
This is to make sure your supply doesn t stop. To top up your credit take your card key to an outlet. You can do this by popping it into the meter and leaving it there until it beeps. If you ve got a smart meter and are on our smart payg plan you can top up your electricity and gas online.
Top up your key or card at a convenient payzone or post office. At this point we can give you 5 emergency credit. However if you ve got an older traditional meter or you re on smart payg standard and use a key or card to top up you ll need to top up at a paypoint instead. You just need to take your electricity key or gas card to your nearest paypoint or post office branch.
To get your emergency credit just insert your key into the meter and it will transfer your 5 credit. Smart pay as you go means you can top up wherever whenever. If it s your first time topping up you ll need to activate your key or card in your meter first. You can add up to 99 at a time to your meter but be aware that it will only hold up to 250 credit in total.
Electricity credit will transfer automatically. Electricity meters and emergency credit. Use up all the credit on your meter before you plug in your new key this is important otherwise your new key will wipe your existing credit. Using your electricity top up key.
You can buy any amount of credit in whole pounds up to a maximum of 49 per transaction. We also operate a friendly non disconnection policy on most meters. Once that s done we ll be your official supplier of green electricity. If you can consider topping up more than you normally would to reduce the risk of running out of credit.
Topping up your electricity meter online. Put the key or card into your meter. Plug your bulb key into the meter and wait for 60 seconds this will register your key. As of the 31st august 2012 you will not be able to top up your card at your local shop.