energy supply

  • Home supply and services

    No easy fix: tariff prices remain high

    In response to the unprecedented increases in global gas prices, Ofgem announced last week time limited measures “to help stabilise” the supply market. This includes a requirement for all domestic suppliers to offer existing customers the same tariffs available to new customers from 14 April, echoing changes made by the...

  • Home supply and services

    Chart of the week | Suppliers adopt winter weighting to reduce debit balances

    Typically, 75% of gas demand and 57% of electricity demand is in the winter months. Over the last two to three years we have seen an increase in the number of suppliers implementing a winter weighting to their direct debit payments, whereby they charge customers more for energy over the...

  • Home supply and services

    Pixie Chart of the week | Varying supplier switching rates revealed across Scotland

    Figures from Electralink, and released by Citizens Advice Scotland, have revealed that there is ‘huge variation’ across Scotland in the rates at which households switch their energy supplier. Residents of local authorities in the north tend to switch energy supplier much less frequently, despite potential savings being available. The switching rate in...

  • Business supply and services

    Chart of the week | Location, location, location: SSE and npower merger

    Last November npower and SSE Retail announced the intention to merge. The SSE and npower merger would bring together the second and sixth largest domestic energy companies. On 28 February the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) asked for comments on the proposed merger  In this Chart of the week, we...