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What type of Customer are you?
Gas
If you have an annual gas bill of less than
£1,000 (73,000 kilowatt hours (kWh)) you
can obtain a gas supply from any licensed domestic gas
supplier . If you use more
than £1,000
you can obtain a supply from suppliers
licensed by Ofgem to
supply
businesses.
Electricity
If you have an annual electricity bill of less
than £800 (12,000 kWh) you can obtain an
electricity supply from any
licensed domestic
electricity supplier. If you use more than
£800 you can obtain a supply from
suppliers licensed by Ofgem to
supply businesses.
The difference between the two categories is
that there are more safeguards in place
to
protect domestic customers, whereas
business customers are able to negotiate their
contract directly with their
electricity supplier or authorized consultant
(i.e. Utilities-Online).
The
UK now has over seventy licensed suppliers of electricity and gas. Several
thousand
separate tariffs being available to each domestic consumer from
both gas
and the electricity suppliers.
The
electricity and gas prices contained within our database are constantly updated,
with
many suppliers have their own direct links into our price comparison
database.
This ensures
that the prices quoted are always up to date.
The
following table provides a guide to the names used by the electricity suppliers
and
the
trading relationships that exist.
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Supplier
Names
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Actual
Supplier
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AA
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Amerada -----------------------
Atlantic Electric and Gas --------
Basic Power --------------------
Beacon -------------------------
British Gas ----------------------
Calortex ------------------------
Cambridge Gas & Electricity -----
Countrywide
Energy -------------
Centrica ------------------------
Daily Telegraph -----------------
East Midlands Electricity --------
Eastern
Electricity --------------
Ecotricity
----------------------
Elf at Home --------------------
Equigas ------------------------
Equipower ----------------------
Green Energy -------------------
Ideal ---------------------------
Independent Energy ------------
London Energy ------------------
Lloyds Ideal --------------------
MEB ----------------------------
Midland Shires Farmers ----------
Midlands
Electricity -------------
Midlands Gas -------------------
National Power -----------------
Norweb Energy -----------------
RSPB Energy --------------------
SAGA
Energy -------------------
Sainsbury's Energy --------------
Scottish Gas -------------------
SEEBOARD Energy --------------
Sterling Gas --------------------
Telecom Plus -------------------
SWEB Energy -------------------
Tesco Energy -------------------
TXU Energi ---------------------
Unit[e]
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Virgin Home Energy -------------
York Gas ---------------------- |
A
branded product from ScottishPower
Amerada was taken over by Powergen in early
2003,
from September 2003
Amerada prices are
being aligned
with the main Powergen prices.
A
trading name of Scottish and Southern Energy
Group
Basic Power
A branded product from ScottishPower
British Gas
A branded product from npower
Domestic clients transferred to Southern Electric
Countrywide Energy
British Gas
A branded product from npower
The supply business was taken over by Powergen
The supply business is owned by Powergen
Ecotricity
A branded product from London Energy
A branded product from Southern Electric
A branded product from Southern Electric
Green Energy
A branded product from ScottishPower
Domestic supplies taken over by npower
London Energy part of EDF Energy
A branded product from Scottish Power
The supply business is owned by npower
A branded product from Countrywide Energy
The supply business is owned by npower
Was Amerada now Powergen
NPower
now Powergen
A branded product from the Scottish and Southern
Group: SWALEC, Southern
Electric; Scottish
Hydro-Electric
was
npower
A branded product from EDF Energy
The Scottish arm of British Gas
Seeboard Energy part of EDF Energy
A branded product from Powergen
Telecom Plus plc
SWEB Energy - part of EDF Energy
A branded product from Powergen
Now re-branded Powergen following merger
Unit[e]
Virgin/London Energy brand
A branded product from npower
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