The way things are going the days of custom building packages are disappearing. Predetermined packages are taking the stage. Dual fuel (electric AND gas as one product) or Electric only (the alternative product). Easier to handle, easier to manager, particularly from the suppliers point of view. Choice A or B, simplz, a single button push.
Do I agree with the direction things are going? I think we know the answer. 👴
I think the vast majority of of people who switch tariffs and or suppliers will be on dual fuel if they actually have a gas supply. It’s become standard, but pre 2019, I deliberately avoided dual fuel and had separate deals for each fuel. Suppliers gave out the notion that there were economies to them of the arrangement which they passed on through a discount to the customer but to me this was all smoke and mirrors.
when the smaller competitors left the market the big six took back the customers they’d lost, in my case there were still separate supplies, but in the years that followed the price capped variable tariff dominated and pricing differences were practically eliminated. Competition was minimal and there was also a ban on the use of acquisition tariffs. More recently things had started to improve but further price shocks in the market have led to greater caution by suppliers with real differences between price capped and fixed price tariffs being minimal. Thus the opportunity to select the best mix of tariff has become once again extremely limited.
personally I’d like to see the return of suppliers willing to supply single fuels, as it was gas only suppliers that enabled consumers to purchase gas at more competitive prices prices.
the savings from doing so were huge, but history tells us that many companies were undercapitalised and took risks with future prices that led to their collapse and caused losses that were eventually recovered from all customers. We don’t want a repeat of that.
