British Gas among organisations working to distribute food to vulnerable people
British Gas is among the organisations working to distribute food to vulnerable people during the coronavirus crisis. Alongside firms such as Sainsbury’s, The Entertainer, Palletforce and XPO...
View ArticleBritish Gas launches new digital-only energy brand
British Gas has launched a new online-only energy brand. Created especially for digitally switched on homeowners, British Gas X is a new service to give customers dual fuel energy from British Gas, the...
View ArticleBritish Gas X more details revealed
British Gas has revealed more about its new ‘challenger brand’ British Gas X. There will be two business units; one focused on delivering low-cost, digital energy only offerings and the other focused...
View ArticleBritish Gas to add 1,000 electric vans to fleet with ‘largest-ever’ UK...
Engineers from British Gas will soon be driving around more sustainably, thanks to the 1,000 new electric vans which are to be added to the company’s fleet. The energy provider has confirmed the new...
View ArticleBritish Gas Energy Trust launches £800k funding for households with energy debts
A leading organisation, which works for the relief of fuel poverty, has announced an £800,000 fund to support energy and money advice charities that help nine areas identified as having the highest...
View ArticleBritish Gas paid £1.48m to prepayment customers for ‘mishandled changes’
British Gas has paid £1.48 million to customers and will pay an additional £250,000 to energy redress fund because it ‘mishandled a change in a top up provider for prepayment customers. Ofgem says the...
View ArticleBritish Gas buys failing supplier Robin Hood Energy’s customer base
British Gas has announced it is to buy Robin Hood Energy‘s customer base for an undisclosed sum. The failing supplier, run by Nottingham City Council, has reportedly made around 230 staff redundant....
View ArticleBritish Gas engineers start five-day strike over pay and conditions
British Gas engineers have launched a five-day strike action starting this morning. The strike comes after GMB Union conducted a strike ballot of 9,000 members in December 2020 and almost 89% voted in...
View ArticleFurther five-day GMB strike announced as ‘fire and rehire’ row continues with...
British Gas engineers have announced five more days of strike action over the company’s ‘fire and rehire’ pay cuts. The industrial action, which will start on 20th January and will run on 22nd, 25th,...
View ArticleBritish Gas engineers to go on strike again for four days
British Gas engineers are to stage a strike for four more days in a dispute over pay and conditions. GMB Union members will walk out on 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th February. That follows a series of strikes...
View ArticlePackage of excrement sent to Centrica’s boss over ‘fire and rehire’ dispute
Centrica’s Chief Executive Officer has revealed he had been posted a package of excrement as a result of the ongoing ‘fire and rehire’ dispute with members of the company’s workforce. British Gas...
View ArticleSmall suppliers go big in business energy market
The share of smaller suppliers in the business gas and electricity market has grown over time. A new report by the research and consulting provider Cornwall Insight shows the collective gas market...
View ArticleFresh 12-day British Gas strike announced
The GMB Union has announced a further 12-day strike by British Gas engineers contesting the company’s ‘fire and rehire‘ strategy. The fresh industrial action will be in three lots of four-day strikes,...
View ArticleBritish Gas to hike energy bills by £97 a year
British Gas has become the first of the major suppliers to announce an increase in gas and electricity bills from April this year. Around 2.3 million customers on the standard variable tariff (SVT)...
View ArticleBritish Gas fleet to go all-electric by 2025
British Gas has committed to having all-electric commercial fleet by 2025. The company has brought forward five years earlier its commitment for its commercial fleet, which is believed to be the...
View ArticleCentrica’s profits collapse by 31% in 2020
Centrica saw annual underlying operating profits from its operations slump by almost a third in 2020, reaching £447 million. The owner of British Gas, which predicts that significant uncertainties will...
View ArticleLeeds City Councillors call on British Gas to withdraw ‘fire and rehire’ plan
Councillor James Lewis, Leader of Leeds City Council has written a letter to the boss of Centrica urging him to withdraw its ‘fire and rehire’ plan. In the letter, Mr Lewis notes councillors were...
View ArticleBritish Gas announces acquisition of Nabuh Energy
British Gas has announced the acquisition of Nabuh Energy. The Sheffield-based energy supplier will become part of the British Gas Energy business by the end of April. Nearly 36,000 Nabuh Energy...
View ArticleNearly a fifth of Brits admit leaving the heating on during summer
Almost a fifth of Brits admit leaving the heating on during summer, when temperatures in the UK are on average 18°C. That’s according to a new study by British Gas’ smart home tech arm Hive, which...
View ArticleGMB Union: ‘British Gas engineers face mass sackings on 1st April’
British Gas engineers face mass sackings on 1st April, the GMB Union claims. Members of the GMB Union have restarted striking today over the company’s fire and rehire pay cuts. The union claims...
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