Record numbers switched electricity supplier last year - MSE News 22 January 2019 at 10:29AM in Energy 6 replies 835 views

Former_MSE_Callum

A record year 5.8 million customers switched their electricity supplier last year, new figures reveal...

Read the full story:
'Record numbers switched electricity supplier last year'

Click reply below to discuss. If you haven’t already, join the forum to reply.

brewerdave

I'm on my 7th leccy supplier since July .......but thats's mainly due to supplier failures and the c**p tariffs the SOLRs have transferred me over to.

[Deleted User]

And if you switch to different gas and electricity suppliers like I did, then you have even less unique people switching.

Anthorn

First of all, just to note a bad link in the opening post: Clicking the text link gets me to the correct article but clicking the button gets me, "Whoops!
Sorry, you've landed on a page that doesn't exist."

I wonder how many of those customers forming part of the 6% increase were customers of failed small suppliers who were almost forcibly switched to the SoLR by Ofgem?

Consumerist

So, probably not much of a dent in the numbers who don't switch.

matelodave

I had three differnt suppliers last year and I shall have at least two this year unless Eversmart goes bust, when it'll be three

geoffW

I've had to switch 4 times but if Iresa hadn't closed I'd still be with them.