FEATURES & BENEFITS

This offer is great as the cash back offer for potential customers and comes on top of some of the cheapest energy rates for online and fixed rate in [...]]]> A number of leading energy suppliers are currently offering up to £50 cash back for new customers signing up to their tariffs during June 2010 through Energyhelpline

This offer is great as the cash back offer for potential customers and comes on top of some of the cheapest energy rates for online and fixed rate in the market right now, with the opportunity to pay up to £398.00 less over standard tariffs.

» Pay Less For Home Energy

The move comes on the heels of  British Gas, Scottish and Southern Energy & EON who have also announced price cuts for [...]]]> Npower has decided to reduce the price of its Gas by 7 per cent  from the 26th of March helping its customers to pay an average of around £50 less for their average annual gas and electricity bills (standard dual-fuel customers).

The move comes on the heels of  British Gas, Scottish and Southern Energy & EON who have also announced price cuts for 2010.

DWP cold weather payments of £25 are paid out when the temperature is [...]]]> The UK Government has already paid out more than £260m to provide financial support towards the extra cost of heating a home for vulnerable pensioners and families due to the UK’s recent freezing weather conditions, according to the Department of Works and Pensions.

DWP cold weather payments of £25 are paid out when the temperature is recorded as 0° Celsius (freezing point) or below for each period of seven consecutive days.

Click on the link above or cut and paste the following url address into your internet browser to find out if you could qualify for a payment.

http://www.dwp.gov.uk/publications/specialist-guides/technical-guidance/sb16-a-guide-to-the-social/cold-weather-payments.

P.S Don’t forget to also tell SID about the social fuel tariffs

Following on from the successful car scrappage scheme which offers [...]]]> Households looking to make home energy savings can now receive a £400 grant towards the cost of a new boiler under a boiler scrappage scheme because of a scheme which is aimed at boosting jobs as well as helping to tackle the consequences of climate change.

Following on from the successful car scrappage scheme which offers £2000 towards a new car, the boiler scrappage scheme is aimed at both cutting carbon emissions and helping people to pay less for the cost of heating their homes.

Up to 125,000 households in England can apply for a grant of £400 towards the cost of renewing their inefficient old boilers as well as potential annual savings of over £200 a year on the cost of heating the home.

Not enough people know about the social tariffs for gas and electricity consumers, so it is up to us all to “tell them“.

They are not signed up to the tariff automatically so they have to apply to their energy provider .

If any of your friends or [...]]]> The SID in this blog stands for

• Senior Citizens
• Income Supported
• Disabled People

Not enough people know about the social tariffs for gas and electricity consumers, so it is up to us all to “tell them“.

They are not signed up to the tariff automatically so they have to apply to their energy provider .

If any of your friends or family fit the following criteria then “tell them” or even do it for them.

It is estimated that over 4.5 million people who should be on a social fuel tariff are not currently claiming, so the chances are you know someone who should be, but are not claiming.

If they are in receipt of child tax credit or working tax credit and their salary is below £14,600 “tell them“

If they receive disability living allowance, pension credit, attendance allowance, disablement pension, income support, carers allowance or severe disablement allowance “tell them“

It helps the most vunerable with immediate effect while helping the vast majority of UK gas and electricity consumers to pay less for home energy.

The measures included

So on one hand consumers will grumble that [...]]]> When the focus is on how much energy bills have risen and how much they are set to rise again it seems that tens of thousands of people are still with energy providers that are charging them to much for their home or even business gas and electricity.

So on one hand consumers will grumble that the price of fuel seems to be rising every month but on the other hand refuse to do anything to help themselves.

A common reason given when asked why someone has not changed to a new energy supplier is “they all raise their prices at the same time” (IE: their all the same)

Well OK that is generally true and most providers will increase (or lower) the price of fuel in line with their competitors, however, what most people do not seem to realise is that although 1+1 should allways add up to 2, the full answer in actual terms can sometimes produce quite different results as explained in the following example.

A is charged £1000 a year for home gas and electricity usage and his/her energy provider raises its price by 15%, this means the expected cost next year will be a hefty £1150.

B lives next door to A but is with a rival supplier who is currently charging only £900 for exactly the same energy use (£100 a year less). B’s energy provider also decides to put it’s prices up by 15% which means that the expected cost to B for the following year would be £1035.

So though A & B’s energy suppliers did raise the price of their gas and electricity by the same percentage, B is now actually paying £115 a year less than A.

The moral to this little tale is simple … Change Your Energy Supplier !!

Footnote: This does not include VAT