Scottish and Southern Energy cuts electricity and gas prices

Scottish and Southern Energy have today confirmed that they will be reducing their domestic electricity and gas prices on 30 March 2009.

Electricty customers will see their average price fall by 9% whilst for gas customers the fall be 4%.

Scottish and Southern supplies energy as Southern Electric, SWALEC, Scottish Hydro Electric and Atlantic.

This is the first time that Scottish and Southern have dropped their domestic energy prices since March 2007. It follows the falls in wholesale energy prices since the middle of last year.

Scottish and Southern claim that following this price reduction, their ‘dual fuel’ customers will typically pay £66 less per annum.

British Gas has recently announced that they will be cutting the price of their standard tariff gas on 19 February. It says this price fall will benefit some 7.5 million customers.

With energy prices changing it is important that you get the best deal for your needs. There are a number of energy price comparison sites, such as uSwitch, which can help you with this.