Keep warm and make savings in the process

Temperatures dropping and nights getting longer mean a major increase in energy costs for households, writes Grainne McGuinness. 

Autumn is the ideal season to do a full review into who you pay for energy and how you use it in the first place. There has been good news in the energy market for billpayers recently, with three of the main companies reducing their prices in recent months.

In June, SSE Airtricity announced that it was cutting its standard unit rates and standing charges by 5%, Bord Gáis Energy then announced a 5% drop in its standard electricity unit price and 2.5% drop in its standard gas unit price coming into effect on October 1 and, most recently, Electric Ireland reduced gas prices by 5%.