The dominance of large-scale energy companies such as British Gas, E.ON, Scottish Power has led to them being christened the Big Six. The vast majority of UK homeowners receive household energy from one of these companies at the moment, but could things be about to change?
uSwitch has discovered that 35,500 UK households switched to small energy companies e.g. Park Energy, Utilita, Green Energy UK, LoCO2 Energy , Co-operative Energy, amongst many others in the past month alone. Increased calls from consumer experts encouraging people to switch providers in order to save money are no doubt a key factor in this momentous swing.
Many of the people who have switched will have been extremely loyal to their energy supplier but reached a point where they simply cannot afford to stay with them and have found a better deal for themselves elsewhere.
However, the Big Six are beginning to fight back. Several of them are offering financial incentives to customers to try and get them to return and if they manage to provide them with the best deal then who is to say that they won’t be successful. But by allowing smaller energy companies to gain a greater foothold in household fuel it will hopefully help increase competition and enable property owners to find suitable tariffs more easily from an energy company large or small.
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