CHANGING energy companies feels so unnecessarily complicated, but I do think it's worth the effort in the end, writes Matt Evans, 37, of Hyson Green.
It's not like walking into a shop and choosing a mobile phone tariff – I might know how many minutes and texts I use a month but keeping track of the amount of kilowatts I use in electricity is another thing.
I started looking around last year but felt my eyes glazing over as I looked at all the different tariffs provided by just one company, let alone the rest of them.
I sometimes use cash-back websites. These pay you very small amounts of cash if you buy certain things, and I noticed that nPower were offering £100 cash back if I joined them. I was a little bit sceptical about it initially but got quotes based on the amount of energy I was using at the time and was told I would save about £8 per month.
So I bit the bullet and did it, received £100 cash back and have seen my bills go down as expected.
It is worth doing but it does feel like a lot of hassle, so I think the city council scheme could be a real success if it manages to simplify the whole process.
If I could have used it then, I would have.
