EDF has announced the return of its Sunday Saver challenge for June. This is a scheme for customers that allows them to earn free electricity by switching their energy use away from weekday peak hours.
Weekday peak hours are typically between 4pm to 7pm. In return for switching your use, you will get between four and 16 hours of free electricity to use the following Sunday.
A 5% reduction in peak consumption would earn four hours of free electricity, a 20% reduction earns eight hours, 35% earns twelve hours, and using 50% less earns 16 hours of free electricity.
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The next round of Sunday Saver will run from June 2 until July 13 - but you won't be registered for it automatically, instead, you need to sign up through your EDF account.
You also need a working smart meter that sends readings every 30 minutes to EDF. The energy provider has credited £2million to customer bill accounts so far.
Rich Hughes, Director of Retail at EDF, said: “We launched Sunday Saver to help customers save cash and carbon, all while contributing to a more sustainable energy system.
“ We’re thrilled that over 154,000 customers have already benefitted from free electricity as a reward for adjusting their daily usage habits and helping to ease the strain on the electricity grid during peak times.”
It comes after it was revealed that will go down again this summer. The Ofgem energy price cap is being reduced by 7% - taking the typical annual bill from £1,849 to £1,720.
The price cap for someone paying by pre-payment meter is falling from £1,803 a year to £1,672, and the yearly charge for someone who pays on receipt of bill is going down from £1,969 to £1,855.
The Ofgem price cap does not put a limit on how much you can pay for energy - instead, it sets a maximum unit price for unit rates of gas and electricity, plus standing charges.
However, families are still paying far more for energy than they used to. The price cap had increased three times before this announcement - it went up by 10% in October, then by another 1.2% in January and finally by 6.4% in April.
This means your bill can be higher or lower than the main price cap figure, which just represents what the average billpayer can expect to pay. Ofgem comes up with this figure based on how much energy it estimates the average household uses.
The energy price cap covers around 22 million households in England, Wales and and is updated every three months.
