E.ON releases a great new offer for
cash-strapped gas and electricity customers
On April 1st,
the price drops announced by the leading energy suppliers became
effective. Yet these new prices won't do
much to help beleaguered consumers. As
the table at the bottom of this article shows, energy remains very expensive. Furthermore, now that it is warmer and we need
less energy anyway, the effect of the price cuts are not going to be as helpful
as they would have been during the bitter cold period of months past.
But on the positive
side, there now is a wealth of new discount tariffs to choose from. The one offer that stands out at this point
is E.ON's just-released, Fix Online tariff. As the name suggests, the product
is a fixed price product, which guarantees the cost of your energy until 1st
of June 2010, and it is available online only, through this service.
Since its launch just
a few days ago, the offer has already been taken up by thousands of customers
because unlike most other Fixed or Capped price tariffs this one is actually really
cheap.
Here are the details: prices
are guaranteed to stay put until June 1st 2010. Customers must agree
to service their account on the E.ON website, and in keeping with E.ON's common
tradition the tariff also comes with Tesco Clubcard Points (1 Point for every
£2 spent on energy).
To see how this tariff
works out for your circumstances, please use our comparison service which
compares the entire market. It is important that you compare prices first, your savings vary depending on where you live, how much energy you use and who
you are using now for gas and electricity.
Please also note that E.ON will charge a £30 penalty (£10 for
electricity-only customers) if you don't stay with E.ON for the duration of the
guarantee period.
Don't delay or you
might be disappointed. Customers have already used our comparison service to
switch to this tariff in strong numbers, so this tariff might not be around for
long. Energy tariffs are sold on a first-come-first-serve basis, so once E.ON
has met its target, the tariff will be withdrawn.
Table 1 Major price change announcements by leading
supplier
Wednesday April 8th, 2009 
