Energy News

British Gas launches WebSaver 9 energy tariff

Friday 20 August 2010

By Dominic Welling - dominic.welling@consumerchoices.co.uk

British Gas’s latest online tariff, WebSaver 9, is 9% more expensive than its predecessor.

British Gas has replaced WebSaver 8, it’s most competitive online tariff, with a new tariff which is almost 9% more expensive.

WebSaver 9 will cost the average customer who signs up to dual fuel £82 per month - or £984 per year.

However, British Gas has guaranteed that WebSaver 9 prices will be 6% lower than its standard tariff until 1 November 2011.

WebSaver 9 is available as a dual fuel, electricity only or gas only product and customers will need to have access to the internet to sign up to this tariff as it comes with online account management only.

The energy giant has launched the new tariff hot on the heels of the recent deals launched by EDF Energy (Online Saver 7) and Npower (GoFix 3).

Across the UK on average the increase from WebSaver8 to WebSaver 9 is 8.93%, according to Energychoices.co.uk’s comparison partner, Energylinx.

Customers who live in London, and the Norweb and Seeboard areas will be hit with the highest increases of 11.3%, 10.17% and 10.24% respectively.

Chris Eagle, commercial manager at Energychoices.co.uk, said: “British Gas is the latest of the “big six” to put up its prices, and further tariff changes are expected to be in the pipeline.

“I encourage people to compare their current energy tariffs against the entire market regularly over the next few months as we start to see the predicted increases taking effect.”

To take advantage of the WebSaver 9 tariff, customers:

• Need to pay by Monthly Direct Debit
• New customers need to take gas and electricity
• Existing customers can select gas and electricity or electricity only.