AutoSwitch - why is Northern Ireland excluded?

frugalstephen

Got an email this morning with Martin bleating on about great this new system is, and will save us £100s, so decided to sign up. On entering my postcode, simply get a message that my area is not recognised. Why isn't there an exclusion statement saying, "Not available in Northern Ireland" , and, why isn't it??

MWT

There is a good explanation here of why NI is different...

https://selectra.co.uk/energy/guides/distribution/energy-northern-ireland

I wouldn't worry though, it is usually better to do your own search each year as you will often find that the cheapest source may not show up on the automatic switching sites.

For NI though the choices are much more limited anyway so just use one of the ones that specifically covers NI.

frugalstephen

We still have more than one supplier:-

• Power NI
• SSE Airtricity Electricity
• Budget Energy
• Electric Ireland
• Click Energy

It would have been useful if the 'autoswitch' worked here just like it does with the rest of the UK, and if it doesn't, the administrators of that web site should still highlight it's own limitations and state it does not fully cover the UK.