9 February 2007
Consumer watchdog energywatch has welcomed British Gas' decision to bring down its gas and electricity prices.
Yesterday, British Gas announced tariff reductions that would lower gas bills by 17% and electricity bills by 11%.
Adam Scorer, Director of Campaigns at energywatch, commented: "Consumers have been desperate for prices to start dropping and this represents what energywatch believes must be the first strike in a battle by all energy companies to lower prices and fight to attract new customers.
"This should be just a start, not the end, other companies must follow quickly and consumers should once again be able to shop around and get big savings by switching energy supplier."
At the end of January, Scottish and Southern Energy wrote to its customers saying that gas and electricity prices would be cut within the next few months, while Powergen is believed to have offered to reduce tariffs yesterday after British Gas' annoucement.
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