Energy giant is giving thousands of customers FREE energy on Christmas Day

A LEADING vigor elephantine serving implicit 5.8 cardinal customers is offering thousands of households escaped energy connected Christmas Day.

EDF Energy customers who motion up for the supplier's Sunday Saver Challenge volition get 8 hours of escaped powerfulness connected December 25.

The strategy rewards customers with free electricity connected Sundays erstwhile they displacement their usage to off-peak times during the moving week.

However, this Christmas Day, EDF volition beryllium offering participating customers escaped hours of energy careless of whether they person adjusted their vigor usage the week before.

If you haven't already enrolled successful EDF's Sunday Saver scheme, you'll request to bash truthful by December 1 to instrumentality vantage of the escaped hours.

You tin bash this by visiting edfenergy.com/energy-efficiency/sunday-saver-challenge.

To participate, customers indispensable person a smart meter that gives them half-hourly reads.

To get your metre connected this setting, customers request to spell to the "About Me" conception successful their EDF MyAccount by visiting edfenergy.com/myaccount/login.

Then, users indispensable click connected astute metre preferences and prime half-hourly.

Rich Hughes, manager of retail astatine EDF, said: "We cognize the festive play tin beryllium a clip of accrued costs for america all, truthful we're thrilled to springiness backmost to our customers and hopefully marque energy costs 1 little happening to interest astir erstwhile it comes to Christmas Day.

"With Sunday Saver, EDF is helping families crossed the state bask their favourite festive past-times for free, and not conscionable connected the Sundays successful December - connected Christmas Day too."

If you inactive privation to get free energy hours connected Sundays, you'll inactive request to trim your usage during "peak hours", which thin to beryllium betwixt 4pm and 7pm, Monday to Friday.

In return, you'll get escaped energy erstwhile request for the vigor grid tends to beryllium lower.

The much energy customers displacement to off-peak times, the much escaped energy they tin earn.

EDF said that if you reduced your vigor usage during highest times by 10%, you would gain 4 hours of escaped electricity, portion a 20% simplification would gain 8 hours.

Customers who negociate to chopped backmost their usage by 40% during the week tin gain up to 16 hours of escaped energy to usage connected a Sunday.

Customers volition beryllium notified by WhatsApp or SMS to fto them cognize if they person earned escaped electricity.

You tin find retired much astir the strategy by visiting edfenergy.com/energy-efficiency/sunday-saver-challenge.

What bash different vigor suppliers offer?

A fig of different vigor suppliers reward customers with discounts oregon recognition erstwhile they alteration the mode they usage their state and energy usage.

These schemes, offered by the likes of British Gas, Octopus and Ovo Energy, tin assistance customers save money this winter.

Here's everything you request to know.

British Gas

British Gas' Peak Save Sundays scheme offers millions of customers half-price energy for utilizing their vigor during definite hours.

It offers qualifying customers half-price energy betwixt 11am and 4pm each Sunday.

The energy firm said implicit 650,000 customers had already signed up for the scheme, redeeming a combined £13million.

You tin motion up to the strategy by visiting britishgas.co.uk/energy/peak-save.html.

The supplier volition past interaction you if your exertion is successful.

After that, your savings volition look arsenic "PeakSave Credit" connected your next vigor measure oregon online statement.

Be alert that you tin lone motion up for the strategy if you person a astute recognition oregon prepayment metre that tin nonstop half-hourly metre readings.

If you don't person a astute meter, don't worry, British Gas volition instal 1 for escaped successful your home.

Octopus Energy

Octopus Energy customers who are signed up for the "Octoplus" tin instrumentality portion successful escaped energy sessions erstwhile wholesale prices autumn beneath zero.

The sessions past an hour, and customers tin usage energy for escaped and person credits for utilizing much than they typically would.

All customers with a astute meter, including astute prepay meters, person an alert the time earlier each session.

When the league begins, they tin ramp up their energy usage - whether it's charging gadgets, moving a laundry marathon, oregon immoderate different household activity.

Any other energy consumed beyond their mean usage volition beryllium credited backmost to their account.

Find retired much by visiting octopus.energy/free-electricity/.

Ovo Energy

Ovo Energy also offers a strategy which rewards customers for reducing their vigor depletion during highest times.

Power Move offers customers up to £10 a period if they usage 8.50% oregon little of their home's full energy betwixt 6-9pm, Monday to Friday.

For example, by utilizing the dishwasher successful the greeting oregon waiting until aft 9pm successful the evening to drawback up connected TV.

You tin motion up by visiting ovoenergy.com/power-move.