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Utilita’s reward scheme allows customers to earn planetpoints, which can be exchanged for a variety of energy-saving products (28/1/10).

Utilita is a small, independent energy company, based in Hampshire. Its name comes from the Latin noun “utilitas”, which means useful and beneficial.

Utilita says it has developed a “highly effective, cost efficient, fully integrated, way of operating” that allows it to offer significant savings and benefits to the customer.

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Planetpoints

Utilita offers a reward scheme where customers earn planetpoints, which can be exchanged for energy saving products. Utilita allows customers to earn planetpoints on all of its energy tariffs, at varying rates.

Products that can be bought with planetpoints include:

Energy saving light bulbs (50 points each)
Solar battery charger (130 points)
Radiator heat reflectors (320 points)
Loft insulation (1800 points)
Cavity wall insulation (2700 points)

At the time of writing, Utilita is giving new customers 150 free planetpoints when they sign up for any Utilita tariff. These are then automatically redeemed for three energy light bulbs.

Utilita energy tariffs

Utilita offers three different energy tariffs. Each charges different prices and allows the customer to earn different amounts of planetpoints:

energysaver – Customers get a 2.5% discount on Utilita’s standard prices, but only earn 10 planetpoints per month.
energysaverplus - Customers pay Utilita’s standard prices and earn 2 planet points for every £1 they spend on energy.
planetsaver - Customers pay 10% more than Utilita’s standard prices, but earn 3 planetpoints for every £1 they spend on energy.

The cheapest option is the energysaver tariff, but customers can earn the most planetpoints with the planetsaver tariff.

Planetpoints earned on the planetsaver tariff are automatically redeemed to make the energy on the tariff 100% carbon neutral. However, customers can opt-out of this and instead use their planetpoints to purchase products to help them reduce their energy consumption and thus cut their energy bills in the long term.

Utilita prepayment meters

Utilita has started offering a prepayment tariff in several regions in the South. It says that the tariff offers fair prices, equal to standard credit tariffs, and the prepayment meters it installs are smarter than standard prepayment meters.

Utilita’s prepayment meters come with hand-held “Freedom Units” which allow customers to see how much energy they are using in real-time. It plans to make its prepayment tariff available across the country in the future.

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