Pre-payment meter Campaign

Npower and Powergen have dropped their pre-payment meter prices because of the pressure from our campaign.

Malcolm Wicks MP, Energy Minster, has acknowledged the plight of pre-payment meter customers and is now going to ask suppliers to do more about the price difference between the different payment methods.

About the campaign

People on low incomes can pay over £100 a year more for gas or electricity than quarterly billed (standard credit) consumers.
Too often, the poorest in society end up paying more for the kind of services most people take for granted.

The pre-payment meter rip-off is another example of this and it needs to stop.

Housing associations, who provide homes for 5 million people in England are campaigning for energy suppliers to align all of their prepayment meter (PPMs) tariffs to the same as their best standard credit rate.

There may be additional costs involved with installing and maintaining meters but that hasn’t stopped some suppliers from equalising electricity tariffs already.

We want to see all the main suppliers equalise for gas and electricity - they should absorb any additional overheads themselves rather than passing them on to their poorest customers.


The Pre-payment Meter Premium – 23 Jan 2008

* a yearly average for pre-payment meter customers. The price is based on gas and electricity (dual fuel) tariffs together.

Visit our website which has details of action you can take including writing to your MP and signing our petition.