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About UKPower.co.uk

UKPower.co.uk is an free to use online price comparison and switching service for gas and electricity. We offer complete and impartial information on all UK energy suppliers and tariffs.

UKPower.co.uk was launched in 2001 and was recognised in 2003 in the DTI Ecommerce Awards. We are also regularly in the Top 10 UK websites within the energy industry, including all energy suppliers' sites.

Our calculator makes it easy for consumers to compare all suppliers and make informed choices on issues such as money saving or switching to a green supplier.

For more information on UKPower.co.uk or for responses to news items, please call us on 0870 458 4200.

Press releases

19/02/2007 - More Price Cuts From Switch-Powered Competition
NPower has now announced major price cuts (npower press release) following announcements last week from British Gas and Powergen.

16/02/2007 - War Truly On As British Gas Wakes to New World
British Gas has today announced further price cuts only one day after Powergen dropped prices in response to British Gas’s first price-drop announcement last week

12/02/2007 - Over 60s Get Online to Save on Fuel
UKPower.co.uk, the energy price comparison site, has found that at least 18% of switchers are over 60.

08/02/2007 - British Gas Announces Price Drop
British Gas has announced it intends to lower prices by 17% for gas and 11% for electricity, a move welcomed by price comparison website UKPower.co.uk

07/02/2007 - Green Energy Interest DOWN 15% in last year
UKPower.co.uk, the energy price comparison site, has reported a downturn by 15% in the last year in the number customers choosing to search for new gas and electricity suppliers with green tariffs as their priority.

02/02/2007 - First Switching Website for Business Customers to Help SMEs Save on Fuel
UKPower.co.uk has launched the first and only energy price comparison website aimed directly at SMEs, allowing fast and convenient online switching capabilities similar to those enjoyed by domestic consumers.

31/01/2007 - Scottish & Southern Energy plc price cut announcements bode well says UKPower
Scottish & Southern Energy plc has written to its seven million domestic customers to announce it will cut gas and electricity prices in the next few months.

17/01/2007 - “Switching is route to making sense of energy competition” says UKPower
A recent Ofgem report revealed that over four million customers changed gas or electricity suppliers in the first 10 months of 2006. The report also said that the ‘high level of switching’ has hit ‘former monopoly suppliers’ the hardest, with some having now announced their intention to make price cuts.

16/01/2007 - “Switch Energy Supplier to Cancel Rate Rise Impact” says UKPower
UKPower.co.uk, the utilities comparison website, is urging consumers to switch energy supplier to combat the impact of latest interest rate rise.

04/01/2007 - Post-Xmas Boom for UKPower.co.uk
UKPower.co.uk, the utilities comparison website, has experienced a 24% up turn in customers switching to better energy deals since Christmas and expect to see this figure rise further in early 2007.

13/12/2006 - UKPower.co.uk welcomes the energywatch Confidence Code
UKPower.co.uk, the utilities comparison website, is expecting to be approved, without any need for changes, in the forthcoming Confidence Code set to be announced in early December 2006 by independent consumer body energywatch, following feedback from the auditors.