Sign up to try and reduce your energy costs

[Whoever]

Have just come across this new organisation setting up to try and obtain energy discounts (gas & electricity) for members who sign up. There's no fee for joining and no obligation, so it's worth checking out.

www.communitypurchasing.com

The idea is that if sufficient consumers sign up, they will be able to use their bulk purchasing power to strike a better price deal with energy companies.

[buildersmate]

If it is your website and you are advertising, it needs reporting (I'm prepared to give the benefit of the doubt).

If you are doing this is a public service announcement, fine, but I don't believe it will ever work. There is no reason for any of the large utilities to want to deal with such a group. If one is a business customer (say a retail one like M&S with hundreds of stores across the country - each with its own electricity meter) one can benefit from group negotiating. But a loose-banded group of individual consumers - no way. It has been tried before with petrol purchasing (Pipeline) but got nowhere.

It does work for domestic heating oil buying though - because the cost of transport for oil is a significant element of the end price.