Moving home, will need new account

Johnny_Dee

Hello,

In a week I'm moving from a shared house into my own place. One of the drawbacks fuel-wise of living in a shared house was that I was restricted to paper quarterly bills and cheques because of the other people who had to pay. When I move, the arrangements at my current place will stay here with the remaining tenants (in any case it's with Scottish Power who are a dreadful rip-off).

Now at last I'd like to take advantage of some cheaper online/direct debit deals, but I'm unclear about the following:

On moving into my new place, will I have to sign say a 12-month contract with the existing gas and electricity supplier(s) before I can change to suppliers of my choice?

I'd be grateful for any advice from people who know how this works!

Many thanks,
Johnny Dee

Quentin

You will have to take over the responsibilty for the energy consumption, but you won't have to sign up to a minimum term contract with them unless you want to.

You can start the switching process as soon as you have taken over responsibility for paying the energy bills.