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- Final four energy firms to cut bills
- MILLIONS OF households could be on track for lower energy bills as the last four of the big six suppliers pledged to follow the lead of British Gas and Scottish & Southern SSE. Facing a grilling from MPs about record electricity and gas charges yesterday, executives from Scottish...
- Research articles 2009-02-12
- HOT TO BEAT THE BIG CHILL RISING ENERGY COSTS MEAN MORE AND MORE
- PERSONALLY, I've never really cared about heating bills. I don't like the numbers: those six-digit gas meter reading figures do my head in, as does the sprawling customer account number, as does the gigantic phone number for emergencies. As a rule, I treat my unopened letters from British Gas as...
- Research articles 2008-11-02
- What does a foreign takeover of British Energy mean for the
- The big question Why are we asking this now? After months of wrangling, Electricite de France EDF, the world's biggest producer of nuclear energy, is being allowed to buy the British Energy Group. The price - 12.5bn - makes it a good deal for British...
- Research articles 2008-09-25
- COMPANY WATCH
- BRITISH Energy shareholders will be waiting to see if rumours of a GBP9 billion bid from France's EDF turn out to be true. The Livingston-based nuclear energy company effectively went on the block when the government decided to sell its stake. Shares rose 7- per cent on Friday amid reports...
- Research articles 2008-04-06
- BRITISH GASP
- BRITISH Gas is set to announce pounds 800million profits for 2007 - 800 per cent up on the previous year. The staggering figures emerge after the company put bills up by 15 per cent - leaving hard-pressed families facing hikes of around pounds 130 on energy bills...
- Research articles 2008-01-27
- SCOTTISH GASP
- SCOTTISH Gas is set to announce pounds 800million profits for 2007 - 800 per cent up on the previous year. The staggering figures emerge after the company put bills up by 15 per cent - leaving hard-pressed families facing hikes of around pounds 130 on energy bills...
- Research articles 2008-01-27
- British Gas stokes up prices by 15% as bills head for Pounds 1,000 a
- ENERGY British Gas has announced a massive 15 per cent increase in its gas and electricity prices, topping recent hikes from npower and EDF Energy. A statement from Centrica, which owns British Gas, said that since it last increased its prices in late 2006 - by...
- Research articles 2008-01-20
- Is it time to pull the plug on your energy supplier?
- As a price war rages, now is the perfect time to switch providers, says Rob Griffin There has never been a better time to search for cheaper gas and electricity. The UK's biggest energy suppliers are locked in a fierce price war and consumers are benefiting from reduced...
- Research articles 2007-10-20
- British Gas trumps rival's cut-price online deal
- BRITISH Gas has thwarted Scottish and Southern Energy's bid to offer the cheapest online energy plan in the market, by undercutting its rival by 32p. The energy giant retaliated after Scottish and Southern launched a new internet tariff last week. Its Price Fix 2008 was GBP5.71 cheaper than...
- Research articles 2007-10-14
- Your Money: Better deal a click away
- HOWARD Corlett has slashed his energy bills by pounds 180 a year by switching providers. Howard, 34, an actor and presenter from South London, was originally with Scottish Power on a fixed deal for two years, paying pounds 60 a month for gas and electricity. When that...
- Research articles 2007-09-30
- GAS AND ELECTRICITY BILLS_Scottish Power and EDF join the cost-
- Millions of consumers can look forward to cheaper fuel bills after EDF and Scottish Power implemented long-awaited price cuts last week. Customers of Scottish Power will benefit from a reduction of up to 16.5 per cent in gas costs and up to 5.5 per cent for electricity. Households using EDF...
- Research articles 2007-06-17
- Sick of rotten service? See it as a Buy signal
- 'The customer is always right, ' said the 19th-century American retail pioneer Marshall Field -- and shoppers at his Chicago store became so enamoured of their omnipotence, and of his assistants' assistance, that they spent enough to make him the wealthiest businessman in the city. His retail innovations -- unconditional...
- Research articles 2007-06-09
- ScottishPower to act after second British Gas price cut
- British Gas, the country's biggest energy company, has intensified the pressure on its rivals to cut prices after unveiling its second reduction in bills in six weeks. The Centrica-owned business said electricity prices would fall by 6 per cent and gas by 3 per cent with immediate...
- Research articles 2007-04-27
- Retail coalition unveils eco-friendly crusade
- From cars to mobile phones, British corporations have launched "green" products and services to spur shoppers into fighting climate change. Tesco, Sky and other companies announced schemes yesterday such as an energy efficiency black box in cars and lowering the washing temperature of clothes. Organisers said homes...
- Research articles 2007-04-24
- Why won't British Gas send me a bill?
- I have moved out of my flat after nearly three years of living there, during which time we never had a bill from British Gas. I still cannot get a final bill from them as they deny that a meter existed there - even though I have the meter readings...
- Research articles 2007-02-17
- You can turn off gas hikes like a tap. But will you get burnt?
- They were giving it away last week. Gas, that is, as a glut hit the UK thanks to a test run of the new Langeled pipeline linking the Yorkshire coast to North Sea fields owned by Norway. Coupled with warm weather that depressed household heating needs, there was simply too...
- Research articles 2006-10-08
- Business News IN BRIEF: Households face energy price hike
- Millions of gas and electricity customers with Powergen and nPower are expected to face bill increases over the next few weeks, according to the home energy price comparison service uSwitch. It said that both were likely to follow the example of British Gas and EDF Energy, which raised prices by...
- Research articles 2006-08-14
- Business News IN BRIEF: Households face energy price rise
- Millions of gas and electricity customers with Powergen and nPower are expected to face bill increases over the next few weeks, according to the home energy price comparison service uSwitch. It said that both were likely to follow the example of British Gas and EDF Energy, which raised prices by...
- Research articles 2006-08-14
- British Gas chief gets top job at housebuilder Barratt
- The managing director of British Gas, Mark Clare, who was passed over for the top job at its parent company, Centrica, is to become the new chief executive of the housebuilder Barratt Developments. Mr Clare, who has been with British Gas for 12 years and has served...
- Research articles 2006-06-28
- L'Oreal will have to bid high to convince Anita Roddick a sell-out
- According to her office, Anita Roddick was uncontactable yesterday, so she would not have known about the bid approach from for her beloved Body Shop from L'Oreal, the world's largest beauty company, and to her, presumably, something of a bte noire, the very antithesis of all she stands for. ...
- Research articles 2006-02-24
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