What gas and electricity supplier should I switch to?

You should switch to a gas and electricity plan that matches your needs and offers the best value for you. You have a few options, outlined below.

A dual fuel plan offers both gas and electricity from the same supplier and often comes with a discount or reduced rates.

If you use both gas and electricity, your results will automatically show you dual fuel plans, but you can opt to see gas and electricity plans separately.

Although dual fuel plans offer a discount, you might benefit from separate suppliers for your gas and electricity. It sometimes works out cheaper, or you may decide you only want to switch your gas supplier, for example, as you are happy with your electricity supplier.

Your results will show dual fuel plans, but you can look at plans for one fuel type only by clicking on the buttons ‘Gas only’ or ‘Electricity only’.

Some suppliers offer electricity that comes from renewable sources like wind farms. If you want to help reduce carbon dioxide emissions, then you can compare and switch to a green electricity plan on our site.

Other suppliers while not offering renewable energy will contribute part of your energy costs to a green fund. This money will then be used to fund environmental and renewable energy projects.

If you want to switch your gas too, you can use our comparison service to look at gas plans, after you have completed your switch to green electricity.

We commissioned YouGov, one of the UK's leading market research companies to conduct a survey of gas and electricity customers. With our customer satisfaction results you will be able to get an insight into customers' satisfaction with their current gas and electricity suppliers and read customers' reviews.

One way to protect yourself against price rises is to get a fixed or capped price plan, which sets your rate per unit for a certain period, such as two years. You pay for what you use, so your payments will vary depending on your consumption, but the rate per unit will stay the same. You normally pay a premium on the supplier’s standard rate.

A fixed plan locks in the price you pay per unit of gas or electricity at a set amount. Your rate is not affected by price rises, but it won’t drop either, if prices go down.

A capped plan sets an upper limit on the price you will pay per unit of gas or electricity used. If there is a price rise, you will not pay more than the upper limit. If prices come down your price per unit may come down too.

If you choose to look at capped rate plans, then we calculate your results using the capped rate, which means your cost will not rise above this level.

Plans for the over 60s can be referred to as Social tariffs. Social tariffs are special plans aimed at helping customers who could be considered vulnerable or disadvantaged. The elderly are often vulnerable to rising energy costs and plans for those aged 60 or over can offer discounts, cold weather rebates and special offers.