Airtricity gas and electricity supply division unveiled
The newly launched Airtricity supply division is hoping to pick up around 500,000 customers — made up of a combination of domestic and corporate clients. The company is hoping to sign up its first commercial gas supply customer by November, with its first foray into the domestic market targeted for April of next year.
Airtricity Supply managing director Kevin Greenhorn said the company is positive on the prospects for a healthy switching environment to emerge in the Irish domestic energy market. Airtricity’s new owner — Scottish & Southern Energy (SSE), which bought the company from its Irish owners for €1.1 billion — benefited from a domestic energy supply sector in Britain, where 55% of consumers switched providers since deregulation.
