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Suppliers at Risk of Failure
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Half of Britain’s energy suppliers face an existential risk after the “Beast from the East” tore through the balance sheets of the industry’s small players. Thousands of energy customers could be left in limbo due to a high risk that around 10 of the most fragile suppliers are on the brink of going under. Many hundreds of thousands more bill payers face the risk of sudden energy tariff hikes because almost 40 suppliers may be forced to squeeze their customers to survive. The startling strain endured by the industry in the wake of the volatile winter energy market is laid bare in leaked proprietary data compiled by one of the City’s top analytics firms, Dun and Bradstreet.
Source: various media outlets including Daily Telegraph
Source: various media outlets including Daily Telegraph
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One wonders whether OFGEM's "Supplier of last resort" could stand if a number of these Companies fell over in a short space of time. Can't see the Big 6 being keen to inherit some of these fixed tariffs which are considerably below their own best deals.eg my gas deal (which runs til Oct. '19) is ~ 30% less than their best current deal.0
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brewerdave wrote: »One wonders whether OFGEM's "Supplier of last resort" could stand if a number of these Companies fell over in a short space of time. Can't see the Big 6 being keen to inherit some of these fixed tariffs which are considerably below their own best deals.eg my gas deal (which runs til Oct. '19) is ~ 30% less than their best current deal.
Can't see the Big 6 being around too much longer.
nPower have already reportedly told their staff to expecxt 5000 job cuts as a result of the "merger" with E.On
SSE is also linked to the "merger" having reportedly lost almost 1/2 million customers in the last year.
BG seems to be on target for losing a similar amount of customers too.
Btw, did I mention that this thread topic is already being discussed here?
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/74332297#Comment_743322970
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