Energy Secretary to get tough on energy giants

Posted on 20 Sep 2011 by The Manufacturer

Energy Secretary Chris Huhne has pledged to make it easier for smaller energy providers to enter the market by cracking the dominance of the bigger energy companies.

Mr Huhne expressed the Coalition’s wish to help people find “simpler tariffs” and “cheaper deals” on their energy supplies by making it obligatory for firms “to tell you whether you could buy more cheaply on another tariff”. The ‘Big Six’ energy companies: npower, Scottish Power, British Gas, Scottish and Southern, E.On and EDF are all…

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