With coffee shops you get some reward for your loyalty - collect 10 stamps and get a free coffee. Nice. But with energy companies, you get the opposite. The reward you get for renewing your contract with your energy supplier for another 12 months? A price rise. Not a loyalty discount or a special offer. You take your eye off it and let it auto-renew and your bill goes up. How is that fair?
If you look at the chart from Ofgem, Britain’s energy regulator, the cost of energy has been going down for the last couple of years, so it’s a great time to get a better deal. If your bill is going up, well there’s something seriously wrong, so perhaps it’s time to say goodbye to your current energy supplier.
Luckily, sites like bill-switchers.com make it easy to see your options and check whether you could get a better deal.
If you know your own name and address and the name of your current supplier, it’ll take you 10 seconds to check if you can get a better deal. And as a guide, it’s taken you 40 seconds to read this far, so what are you waiting for?
It’s frustrating that energy suppliers don’t look after you a little better and encourage more loyalty by rewarding you for it, but as it is, you’ve got to be on the front foot, ready to fight for a better deal for yourself as no one else is going to do it for you.
Even Ofgem themselves recommend consumers shop around for a better deal. bill-switchers.com might not be as well known as some of the bigger players in the market but it works in exactly the same way
One way to keep things simple is to choose the same supplier for your gas and electricity - choosing a ‘dual-fuel’ tariff. It can also save you money with suppliers offering you financial incentives to combine the two. And it means you only need to change one supplier each year rather than two, halving the admin. bill-switchers.com is just one site that can show you the deals available to you in just a few minutes.
It's awfully British to want to avoid any unpleasant confrontations. And the good news is you don't need to be the one that gives your outgoing energy supplier the bad news. Your new supplier will get in touch and sort the changeover out for you. There'll be no interruption in your supply. It'll happen imperceptibly and you'll be contacted to confirm it's happened.
And then it's done for the year.
Typically, the best time to switch is in the last month of your contract when your existing supplier can't charge you any cancellation fees. They'll send you a note with about 30 days of your contract left and that's your cue to start looking for a better deal. And why wouldn't you?
Auto-renewing will see the price go up while switching using a site like bill-switchers.com will bring the price down. Take control of your energy bills once and for all. Be a bill switcher.
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