Poorer household customers are paying more than the customers on the cheapest energy tariff. Non Prepayment customers have enormous choices like online, dual fuel, fixed, green and discounted plans. Unfortunately, prepay customers can use only single tariff offered by the energy suppliers. As often, prepayment plan is much more expensive than other cheaper deals. There are several negative sides of…
There are still a lot of customers who are on the expensive standard tariff. Most of the UK people are not switching supplier as suggested by Ofgem. According to the statistics showed by them, 60% of customers are using standard variable tariff. It’s just that they are wasting money by not changing suppliers. There is an increase of 26% in…
The market had few (around 10) suppliers 10 years back but now UK has over 50 energy suppliers offering their services to households and Businesses. All suppliers offer standard, fixed, variable and special tariffs and it’s becoming much more difficult for a customer to choose from the big list of suppliers and tariffs. The new entrants launched new cheaper tariffs…
People find sudden fluctuation in gas and electricity prices in last 2-3 months. Even though it is hard to say a particular reason, it is a cause of several reasons. Britain energy market said, energy providers have huge competition in terms of cost and service to increase customers. Suppliers have to manage both including their profit. Today, I am going…
Are you renting? Do you know being a tenant what’s your rights and responsibility towards your home? Energy bills are the good starting point for saving money. Energy consumption is fully in your control and by following effective energy saving tips can save you money. In general, renters assume that they cannot change their energy suppliers but you can change…
With the Gas & Electricity price rise that is currently happening the market, we need to keep thinking about ways to save the cost. As the media speculating a lot on continuation of Price rises for the next few months, it becomes all the more important to find out cheaper deals for gas and electricity. There are a lot of…
Recently you have seen lots of peaks and valleys in energy market whether its related to Big Six Companies (SSE, British Gas etc) standard price frozen issue or collapsing of GB Energy Supply. It still continues and customers are confused about what they should do? As ofgem mentioned, every consumer will be treated fairly and nobody is going to suffer…
Winter has arrived and it’s getting really cold. Days are going to be shorter and colder from now. It’s time to take care of few things and prepare home for winter. 5 things to Prepare Home for Winter Tune up heating system – You should inspect furnace and heat pump to check weather system is clean or not. If you…
Prepayment meter is defined as pay as you go, means you have to pay in advance instead of monthly and quarterly payment. Basically, it is a domestic type meter. Around 6 million prepayment meter is installed in household across UK. Customer uses smartcard, token or some kind of key to do payment via smartphone app or shop. From last year,…
Recent changes made by the government in the energy sector have made it easier than ever before to switch suppliers. A few of these changes are: Changes to Energy Tariffs Earlier, gas and electricity providers could design as many tariffs as they liked and offer attractive deals to entice customers. A consumer trying to compare energy providers in an area…
