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15,000 sign up for power cut
Reporter: Andrew Rudkin
Date online: 18 January 2013
More than 15,000 households have now signed up to the Greater Manchester Energy Switching Scheme in a bid to cut household energy bills.
The second stage of Oldham Council’s scheme has seen the borough join Greater Manchester’s other nine boroughs to produce a bigger bulk-buying group than for its Oldham-only pilot scheme late last year.
Local people - whether or not they joined the first switching scheme - can sign up before 11pm on January, 28.
Councillor Arooj Shah, assistant cabinet member at Oldham Council, said: “Once you get your quote there is absolutely no obligation to switch providers.”
To register, go to www.gmfairenergy.com with a copy of recent gas and electricity bills to hand.
Sign-up events also continue — see list below - for those without internet access, at which staff will help households to register for the colelctive.
Bills roadshow
Saturday: Oldham Library, 11am-2pm, Stoneleigh Park Cabin, Derker, 10am-noon.
Monday: Chadderton Library, 11am-2pm.
Tuesday: Failsworth Library, 11am-2pm; East Oldham District Town Hall, Holt Street, 1-3pm.
Wednesday: Clarksfield School, noon-2pm; Greenfield Library, 2.15-5pm.
Thursday, January 24: Northmoor Library, 2.15-5pm, Stoneleigh Park Cabin (Derker), 1-4pm, Clarksfield School, (women only) 11am-12.30pm.
Friday, January 25: Lees Library, 11am-2pm.
Saturday, January 26: Sholver Youth Centre, 10am-noon.
Comments
What money people may save will be eaten up by Councils putting up Council Tax.
Hope they are more sucessful than I have been in using the switch service rolled out in 2012, still waiting for contact from co-op energy, despite emails, cant even be bothered to replying to those, I choser states in welcome email, they would monitor the switch over, mmm still waiting, perhaps they should have waited for the fanfare untill customers had actually completed the switch. Hope others get a better service than I have.
"15,000 sign up for power cut." Back to the 1970s then!
Haha, nice one Shaun:-)
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waste of time don't bother if you have the Internet. just a PR stunt they said previously using our "collective buying power" implying they were bulk buying energy has the big companies do to get a cheaper deal for us. It appears it is just a Internet comparison site search which most people do anyway.
By jonboy @ 18/01/2013 16:26:33