Manya Rathore
Research expert covering India
Energy supply switching in the UK - statistics & facts
While switching energy supply became popular in the United Kingdom in recent years due to a growth in competition and options available, a recent survey found that the share of British consumers who had switched energy suppliers in the previous 12 months dropped from over one-third of the respondents in 2020 to around 10 percent in 2022. Since the end of 2021, the instability of the global energy market and the soaring energy prices exacerbated by the UK’s exit from the European Union have brought the number of electricity supplier switches to record lows.
