ESB plan open to those in difficulty

ESB has confirmed that customers making a genuine effort to manage their bill can now avail of its recently-announced electricity price reductions.

Earlier this month ESB Electric Ireland, on its entry to the competitive residential energy market, launched a range of price reductions.

As part of the package, the company offered a plan which offers social welfare recipients, who may be in arrears, a discount of up to 6% when they join the plan.