New Supplier: Co-operative Energy, £100 cashback available

Stuart_W

Co-operative Energy will properly launch in early 2011

You can preregister interest at https://www.cooperativeenergy.coop with your email address.

There is a £100 cashback offer if you sign up before 31st December and go through the very short survey after sign up.

Main features of this supplier
-Monthly direct debit mandatory
-paperless or £3 per statement paper charge
-one tariff: annual standing charge plus same unit rate for all consumption levels

Tariff price list:
http://test.cooperativeenergy.coop/assets/documents/price-list.pdf

Co-operative Energy is owned by Midcounties Co-operative Society. If you are a member of any "beehive card" co-operative society, you'll be able to earn dividend on your energy purchase with your card number (so that's members of Co-operative Group, Midlands Co-op, Anglia Co-op, Chelmsford Star Co-op, Southern Co-operative and Midcounties Co-op). If you're not, you can join the midcounties co-op soceity after sign up if you wish, to earn dividend.

Hello

You recently registered your interest in Co-operative Energy, the new energy supplier due to launch nationally in early 2011. As you have shown an interest in our business, we would like to give you an opportunity to sign up early and use our new customer website.

Co-operative Energy aims to set itself apart from the big energy suppliers by:
•Offering competitively priced electricity and gas to all customers, all the time
•Giving customers a share of profits through membership of Midcounties, the co-operative society which founded Co-operative Energy
•Keeping our prices simple and transparent
•Avoiding penalties and hidden charges
•Committing to sourcing energy for electricity with less than half the UK average carbon content


If you sign up for electricity and/or gas using our website and give us feedback via a brief online survey, we’ll credit £100 to your energy account. This offer is open until 31st December 2010.

To access our new website and sign up, go to: http://test.cooperativeenergy.coop The online survey follows immediately after sign-up.

Remember, you must sign up as a customer and give us feedback to qualify for your £100 joining credit. You don’t have to do anything else. We’ll contact your existing supplier and arrange everything.

We look forward to the prospect of welcoming you as a customer.

davidgmmafan

A supplier with an ethical stance and a committment low carbon electricity. Guessing they won't be topping the best buy tables!

On the whole a welcome development though. Consumers are cryig out for a better alternative in this area almost as much as they are in banking IMO.

KimYeovil

£5 per month standing charge for everyone and decent tier 2 prices - far more sensible model than Ebico. Good luck to them but I hope they are not swamped by 'bad' clients - they have to be fair and firm and ensure costly clients are charged appropriately and not subbed by others.

MillicentBystander

I too wish them all the best. I wonder if they will get John Hannah to do the voice overs on the TV ads...

'The Co-Op...Good with Fuel' (TM)

HappyMJ

Your expected annual usage is 5,300 kWhs which will cost £462.83 per year from Co-operative Energy
We are only £203.33 more per year than your current supplier
We might cost a little more than your current supplier, but look at all the other reasons for joining Co-operative Energy.


OK...I'll pass...Only 80% more expensive but they do say there other reasons to join.

penrhyn

........Always thought it was that bloke off Coast!!

MillicentBystander

John David Hannah (born 23 April 1962) is a Scottish actor of film and television. He has appeared in Stephen Sommers' Mummy Series, Richard Curtis' Four Weddings and a Funeral and Sliding Doors with Gwyneth Paltrow. He is currently the voice of The Co-operative Group adverts in the UK.

It's wikipedia so as every regular surfer knows it's guaranteed 100% correct :think:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hannah_(actor)

TwittersPVFC

They came out £53 dearer for me. Definately one to keep my eye on for when Online S@ver 7 ends at the end of next year.

t0rt0ise

Another one that doesn't accept my postcode. What is the matter with them? They can't recognise WC1X I suppose.

MillicentBystander

£123 more than current supplier for me (I'm with EDF Saver 7 and haven't included the £100 welcome bonus nor have i included the £100 Co-op bonus, either). Better than I thought it would be, TBH. Having said that, with the standing charge and one tier pricing I'm suspecting they will be more competitive for the high user?

t0rt0ise

Rather than it being attractive to the high user, I'd say it was unattractive to the low user. But seeing as the unit price is high, it's not attractive to anyone!