Compare British Gas energy prices and tariffs

British gas energy tariffs and prices

British gas fuel mix and the UK average fuel mix

OFGEM guidelines suggest that all energy suppliers must publish fuel mix information that they are using to generate the energy for the UK household.

We have listed figures for the last 5 years below which are taken from Britishgas.com for you to understand the mix of fuels used to supply energy to your home.

Fuel Mix of British Gas Electricity Supply

British gas price increases and decreases

Price changes in 2020

Price drop by 2% – British gas decreased by 2% for standard variable tariffs in February 2020 which will be effective from April 2020.

Price changes in 2019

Price drop by 6% – British gas dropped prices by 6% as per OFGEM price cap reduction in August 2019 and were in effect from October 2019.

Price increase by 10% – British gas announced 10% price increase in February 2019 which affected 4 million standard variable tariff customers. Price rise came in to force on 01 of April 19

Price changes in 2018

Price increase by 5.5% – British gas up their prices by 5.5% in April 2018 and effective from 29/05/20018 for dual fuel variable rate tariffs

Price changes in 2017

Price increase by 12.5% – British gas announced price rises for electricity by 12.5% in August 2017, on 15/09/2017 price rise came in effect.

Furthermore, in October 2013 that the company announced a 9.2% price rise in its energy supplies. The rise was brought in effect on 23 November 2013. In addition, the supplier announced three price cuts for customers that relied on their home energy plans. However, it has not raised gas and electricity prices in recent times, in fact, it has frozen its energy tariff prices until August 2017, which is contrary to the energy price increase announced by the rest of the Big Six energy providers.

• Variable energy tariff – Supplier can vary your standing charge and unit rate as when they prefer.
• Fixed rate tariff – Unit rate and standing charges will remain fixed for the agreed term.
• Prepayment meter tariff – Also known as top up meter tariff meaning, you pay for your energy before you use it by topping up with a key or a card.
• Dual fuel tariff – It means you are getting supply of gas and electricity from the same energy supplier which can often be cheaper and easy to manage.

Source – British gas website

How to complain

Source – British gas website

If you are not happy with the outcome, you can get in touch with Ombudsman. Here’s more details:

How can you get in touch with British Gas customer service?

How can you get in touch with British Gas?

By email – [email protected]

By Calling them:

Moving home help line – 0800 048 0303

Gas emergency – 0800 111 999

Pay as you go customer line – 0800 048 0303

Top up pay as you go – 0800 107 0188

Business energy – British Gas Business

British Gas Business supplies commercial gas and electricity to more than 300,000 SME, medium, large businesses and corporate businesses throughout the UK.

British Gas Business energy tariff options

• Fixed rate business energy tariff
• Variable rate commercial energy tariff
• Out of contract rates
• 28 day roll over business tariff
• Half hourly business electricity tariff

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