Gas & electricity articles

  • Find a cheap electricity supplier

    There isn’t one cheap supplier for everyone. To find the cheapest for you tell us two things:Where you live.How much electricity you use.Whether you have switched your electricity online before or...

  • Find a cheap energy supplier

    There is not a single cheap energy supplier for everyone, it's about finding the cheapest for you. This only takes 17 minutes on average. To get started simply tell us:Enter your postcode Enter your...

  • UK electricity companies

    If you are fed up with continuous price rises from your electricity company, uSwitch.com is here to help you. Our easy to use service compares prices from all licensed electricity companies so you...

  • Who supplies my electricity?

    If you’re moving into a new property, you may be wondering who your electricity supplier is going to be. If you don’t know, then don’t panic; there are a number of ways that you can find out.

  • Energy efficient grant schemes

    In a bid to reduce fuel poverty, (where a customer spends more than 10% of their income on heating and lighting) the governments of England, Scotland and Wales have set up grant schemes to improve...

  • The right time to switch

    If you’re asking yourself ‘Is it the right time to switch?’ then the answer is ‘yes’.If you’re paying too much for your gas and electricity and could save money by switching energy suppliers, then...

  • OVO Energy - About the new energy supplier

    A new energy supplier called ‘OVO’ has recently broken into the energy market. They are taking a new and innovative approach to supplying energy by providing products that are greener, simpler to...

  • Gas and electricity price rises and decreases

    Keep up to date with the latest gas and electricity prices rises and decreases with uSwitch.See which energy suppliers have made gas and electricity prices rises and decreases, how much prices went...

  • E.ON price cut announced

    E.ON has announced that it will cut its electricity prices by 6%, effective from the 27th March 2012.It means that 3.7 million of its customers will see their dual fuel bill fall by an average of £33...

  • EDF Energy announces price cut

    EDF Energy has announced a price decrease of 5% on gas, effective from 7th February 2012.The price reduction will mean the cost of the average dual fuel bill drop for an EDF customer will drop from...

  • ScottishPower announces price cut

    ScottishPower has announced that it is to cut its gas prices by an average of 6%.The rise is likely to affect 1.4 million of ScottishPower customers.It makes ScottishPower the last major energy...

  • Dual fuel - all you need to know

    Dual fuel simply means that you receive your gas and your electricity from the same energy supplier. If you receive an electricity bill from one energy supplier and a gas bill from a different one,...

  • npower announces price cut

    npower has announced a price decrease of 5% on its gas billsThis means the average annual standard dual fuel bill will fall by £39 from £133 on to an average annual standard dual fuel bill, which...

  • Answers to our energy bill challenge

    In July 2009, we set a challenge to see how many of you could accurately calculate a standard energy bill. There has been a great response and over 2,700 people have taken part so far. Despite being...

  • British Gas announces price cut

    British Gas today announced today (12/01/2011) that it will be cutting its electricity prices by 5%.

  • Scottish and Southern Energy announces price cut

    SSE (formerly Scottish and Southern Energy) announced on the 12th January 2012 that it will decreasing its gas prices by 5%, effective from 26th March 2012.

  • Household energy bills could hit £5k by 2020

    Your home gas and electricity bills could reach as high as £4,733 a year by 2020, nearly four times higher than they are today, according to our latest research. Our research is based on a number of...

  • Baffling energy bills leave 75% of consumers confused

    In April 2009, we conducted extensive research amongst our customers backed up with research commissioned through YouGov, to find out which household bills people find the most confusing. The results...

  • Live in Yorkshire? Save over £269 on your energy bill

    You might be surprised to learn that if all the households in Yorkshire switched their gas and electricity to cheaper suppliers, the savings made would reach an enormous £525 million. That’s an...

  • Take the energy bill challenge

    As part of the uSwitch campaign for household bills to be made simpler, clearer and easier to understand, we asked the Edexcel exam board to assess how complicated Britain's energy bills really are....

  • Energy Customer Satisfaction Awards 2011

    It's been a disappointing year for all of the Big Six energy suppliers. After last year's record breaking highs, many this year have dropped to an all-time low, with 50% of customers not satisfied...

  • What is uSwitchforBusiness.com?

    uSwitchforBusiness.com is a free, impartial energy brokerage service. uSwitchforBusiness.com focuses on helping  business customers get the best gas and electricity contracts.uSwitchforBusiness.com...