Domestic

  • Press Releases

    Households unlikely to benefit from fixed tariffs over the coming year

    Data analysed by Cornwall Insight has shown that households choosing to sign up to any of the fixed energy tariffs currently available would be unlikely to experience savings in their energy bills over the next year when compared to Cornwall Insight’s forecast price cap rates1. As energy prices continue to...

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    Energy suppliers face over £1.9bn of debt as households struggle to pay their bills

    A new report from Cornwall Insight and Complete Strategy – ‘Bad debt and energy suppliers: A systemic risk’ – has shown domestic energy suppliers could be exposed to approximately £1.9bn of debt1, of which a significant portion could be unrecoverable. The amount of unrecoverable debt, known as bad debt, facing...

  • Media Mentions

    Daily Mail | Tonik Energy

    Katie Hickford discussed Scottish Power taking on 130,000 customers from failed supplier Tonik Energy last week in the Daily Mail Acquisitions and mergers have been the biggest form of supplier growth. With 10 instances of trade sale events in the domestic supply market since January 2019. Alongside this was also 10...

  • Media Mentions

    Smart Energy International | Non-domestic energy market changing

    Our research into the non-domestic energy supply market share featured in Smart Energy International. Molly Lloyd highlighted that we are currently seeing a changing market share landscape due to recent acquisitions. npower’s merger with E.ON Group will lead to changes in larger suppliers’ market share rankings. E.ON UK’s merger in...

  • Press Releases

    Challenger energy suppliers join the “Big Six”

    Research from Cornwall Insight’s Domestic market share survey for the first quarter of 2020 shows a shake-up of the rankings that is unprecedented in the survey since its launch. The completed merger of OVO Energy and SSE and organic growth from Bulb have seen the names of challenger brands sit...

  • Press Releases

    Price cap declines but is expected to fall further still

    Commenting on today’s Ofgem announcement that the default price cap would decrease by £17 to £1,162 for the six months effective from 1 April 2020, Robert Buckley Head of Retail and Relationship Development at Cornwall Insight, said: “Due to the mild winter the UK has experienced, it will have come...

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    Collaborative project involving Pixie Energy awarded funding by BEIS

    Pixie Energy – a subsidiary of Cornwall Insight Group – in collaboration with Powervault and Sustainable Venture Development Partners has been awarded funding by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy’s (BEIS) domestic demand-side response (DSR) competition. The funding was allocated for the Whole House Energy Management for DSR...