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Article: Knock Pounds 600 off your energy bill
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 3, 2009
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September's sun is a memory and nights are darkening. Households
are starting to feel the chill, not only from the cold, but the
failure of Britain's big energy suppliers to lower prices. Consumer
groups, MPs, the regulator Ofgem, seemingly everyone apart from
Energy Secretary Ed Miliband has noticed that what went up last
year, our bills, have not come down, despite drastic falls in
wholesale prices.
Indeed, last month the Big Six - British Gas, EDF, E.ON, Npower,
Scottish Power and Scottish & Southern - brazenly stated they had no
intention of dropping prices this winter. An exasperated Ofgem
admitted it had no power to bring about lower bills.
You, however, do. By switching supplier and ...