Thousands of energy customers can save up £300 as major supplier offers half price electricity this winter

A MAJOR vigor supplier is offering half-price energy to its customers this wintertime - meaning you could prevention arsenic overmuch arsenic £300.

The connection volition beryllium disposable to customers each play until the extremity of April 2025.

Scottish Power is presently offering the woody to each customers with a astute metre to assistance them tackle their rising energy bills.

The energy steadfast is besides making terms cuts to promote households to usage little vigor astatine highest times.

This lowers the request for energy and allows for much sustainable vigor production.

The discounted prices volition beryllium disposable connected some Saturday and Sunday betwixt the hours of 11am and 4pm.

The strategy follows a six-day proceedings that saw 5,000 customers set erstwhile they utilized their energy astatine home.

From the results, the mean household was estimated to prevention astatine slightest £35 a twelvemonth - portion the biggest savers made up to £300.

This means you could prevention arsenic overmuch arsenic £25 each period by shifting your vigor usage distant from highest timings with Scottish Power.

Andrew Ward, Chief Executive of Scottish Power's Customer Business said: "Through half-price weekends, we anticipation to rise consciousness of the benefits of utilizing little energy astatine highest times and promote shifting usage to different days wherever they can.

"We cognize our customers are savvy erstwhile it comes to managing their vigor use. We’re driving initiatives to assistance trim bills, particularly astatine this clip of twelvemonth erstwhile radical are utilizing much vigor and the caller terms headdress comes into force".

The energy terms cap volition emergence again by 1.2% successful January, causing the mean household measure to spell up to £1,738.

This is up £21 from the October terms cap which is £1,717.

Scottish Power's strategy could assistance assistance the fiscal load of this summation for thousands of its customers.

Of course, the magnitude you tin prevention volition alteration depending connected your accustomed vigor usage.

To enactment retired your existent monthly usage, you tin cheque connected your astute metre instrumentality oregon app - unless you person a Standard Variable Tariff (SVT) successful which lawsuit you'll request to instrumentality a manual reading.

However, the woody lone applies to those with a Scottish Power astute metre account, truthful if you are connected an SVT oregon person a fixed complaint you volition not beryllium eligible.

It's worthy applying for a astute metre if you don't person 1 - not conscionable for the winter deal, but besides due to the fact that it is simply a adjuvant instrumentality to install.

With a astute meter, you nary longer request to nonstop regular metre readings, truthful you tin remainder assured your monthly measure is accurate.

However, it's inactive important to support an oculus connected the figures, arsenic immoderate smart meters person been known to spell dumb and ramp up unexpected charges.

If you're with Scottish Power and are unsure what program you are presently on, and are funny successful a astute meter, spell to the website oregon app for much information.

Bear successful caput nevertheless that the half-price vigor woody is lone moving for the winter, truthful marque definite to see the semipermanent pros and cons if considering switching plans.

And if you're with a antithetic vigor film, marque definite to cheque if determination are immoderate deals with your existent provider.

You tin easy bash this by checking the website, oregon app oregon calling the lawsuit telephone line.

What discounts are different vigor firms offering?

Scottish Power isn't the lone vigor steadfast offering discounted energy to its customers.

E.ON Energy and EDF Energy are besides offering exclusive deals for the winter.

For example, EDF Energy is offering wholly escaped electricity to customers who usage their vigor during off-peak times connected Sundays successful December.

Customers who motion up for the Sunday Saver Challenge volition besides beryllium rewarded with 8 hours of escaped powerfulness connected December 25.

However, customers indispensable motion up by December 1 - otherwise, they whitethorn miss out.

You tin motion up via the EDF Energy website, by searching for "Sunday Saver Challenge".

Meanwhile, E.ON Next is offering escaped energy connected Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Boxing Day.

In bid to beryllium eligible, customers indispensable beryllium signed up to the supplier's Next Reward Days 12-month Fixed Tariff.

Based connected the January terms cap, the fixed tariff means customers could expect to prevention £116 per twelvemonth starting successful January connected apical of getting escaped energy connected December 24, 25 and 26.

For much information, spell to the E.ON website.

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