Business Electricity Price Comparison Websites
A look at how the price comparison websites work for business utilities such as electricity and gas supplies.
It’s easy for homeowners to see the exact rates and tariffs for electricity and gas from the price comparison websites as they tell you how much you will pay, the length of a contract, the energy provider and you can then click a link and switch online. For business customers it’s currently completely different. So why is that ?
Getting a quote for business electricity from price comparison websites
Well for a start you currently can’t simply add in your postcode and annual consumption and have rates and prices shown to you. This is always like this for business customers as things are just not the same as homeowners and is clouded slightly so you never get to make the choice online.
The way it works currently is you can do one of two things to get the best prices for energy supplies for your business :
- Go to each of the big 6 energy provider websites (British gas, EDF, Eon, Southern Electric, npower and Scottish Power and key in your information to get an instant online quote. Then if you like that you can sign up online with most (but not all) of the companies
- Or you can choose one of the independent websites where you simply enter your meter number and a few other details and they will come back with the best prices for you. This is like a broker service but may be something you want to do (although you may or may not get better prices by going direct so it would be wise to undertake both going direct to the individual company websites one by one and then looking at a couple of the broker sites).
So although there is no particular online business electricity price comparison website where you can do it all yourself and switch online in a matter of minutes there are certainly services out there that can help you get the best tariffs and rates and this is something each business owner should be investigating at least once per year before their current contract expires. With sites like British Gas they actually guarantee to save you hundreds of pounds from your current supplier (even if you are with them at the moment) and there are often deals to be had such as guaranteeing to beat your current quote by 10% and other offers that they have from time to time. Getting a quote from British Gas is easy from their website and only takes about 60 seconds for the entire process.
So those are the best ways of trying to reduce your business energy costs and hopefully in time real online price comparison services can be developed for businesses (although in essence none of the big 6 energy providers actually publish the business rates on their websites so you have to go through the online quoting process anyway to see what’s on offer for your business at your postcode). If you need professional help to guide you through all of this then one of the brokers should be able to help you.
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