Housing Strategy 

Are you fed up with rising gas and electricity prices? Barking and Dagenham Council and Thurrock Council are organising their first ever collective energy switching scheme.

You can sign up for the Big Energy Switch between 15 February and 8 April 2013. A tariff will be negotiated with the energy companies. The more people who sign up, the more bargaining power there will be to drive down the price.

An auction will take place on 9 April. Everyone who’s signed up will be sent an offer by email based on their calculated energy usage. Only then do you have to decide whether to accept the winning supplier’s offer.

You could save a lot of money by joining the scheme. In other parts of the country people have saved up to £250 on their annual bills.

Are you interested? Then sign up here from 15 February.

Big Community Switch

• You can sign up from 15 February to 8 April to participate in the Big Energy Switch.
• You sign up with no obligation and we will inform you about the auction date.
• If you share your annual consumption details then we can make you an offer suited to your specific situation.
• In the week after the auction you will receive a personal offer by email and you have a few weeks to decide whether you wish to accept the offer.

• The more people sign up, the greater our purchasing power.
• Energy suppliers compete to make the best offer in the auction.
• They determine their bid based on the number of participants.
• The supplier with the best tariff wins the auction.