E.ON announces acquisition of UK energy supplier OVO

The_Green_Hornet

https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/ovo-to-be-bought-by-eon-what-this-means-for-ovo-customers-a6x927b3PYrc

QrizB

There have been rumblings about OVO's financial situation for a while. I guess this will quieten them down.

OVO have a set of guides and forums that are often useful places to find information about eg. obscure smart meters and tariffs. It will be a shame if those are lost as a result of this deal.

tfhnota

Radio 4 Said they will now be the biggest energy supplier so hopefully Octopus will be spurred on to offer more competitive tariffs. Never used Ovo or Eon so can't comment on their quality, only that Octopus is much better than BG or Scot Power.

flibblesan

Eon have got a lot better since they switched to using Octopuses Kraken platform. Although by the sound of things it appears OVO customers will not be moved onto Eon Next but kept as its own thing?

Netexporter

I suspect they'll adopt a similar tactic to when they killed off Any Old Eon. Any new customers went to Eon Next but they only gradually migrated AOE customers over as their contracts expired. Finally, the never-do -anything customers were moved.

Scot_39

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81994317#Comment_81994317

Yes the only user manual for the Secure Liberty meter I have came from Ovo forums. And I more recenrtly got info about E10 on smets2 for their old RTS legacy customers - filled in gaps sooner than that on some other suppliers - like SP - info on what they were doing on their complex RTS.

Ironically Ovo for a while were the only ones who recently - and this only late last year - post RTS swapover (they moved 1000s or RTS THTC and E10 split type tariffs onto smets2 E10 with 3 off peaks) - would offer me an online E10 quote.

EDF published prices but wouldnt offer when contacted them years ago - and I think it's possibly maybe legacy with them now too - given problems last summer in threads on EDF E10 by Rosie1001 and others.

It took EOn a while (more like year(s) - maybe spring 2022 - not just few months) to move me from EOn to EOn Next - so hopefully the Ovo forums wont disappear overnight.