85,000 switch to Bord Gáis

WHEN launching the Big Switch campaign, Bord Gáis had hoped to lure 85,000 customers to its new electricity service in a year — but ended up doing it in just a month.

“The response has been phenomenal. We had hoped to get 80,000 to 100,000 people switched by the end of year one. Clearly we’ve broken that target already,” a spokeswoman said.

Chief executive of the Consumers’ Association, Dermot Jewell, said the mass exodus from the ESB to Bord Gáis showed “a massive anger at ESB prices”.