Households at risk of fuel poverty could receive free home batteries through E.ON Next’s Battery Boost programme.
The project is designed to support vulnerable customers, cut bills and help local grids manage growing electricity demand.
Following a successful partnership with Northern Powergrid, E.ON will now join forces with SP Electricity North West and UK Power Networks as well.
The free home batteries can store more affordable electricity at off-peak times, ready for use when demand and prices rise. E.ON says the first households are saving hundreds of pounds a year, with no change to how they use electricity.
Chris Norbury, Chief Executive of E.ON UK, said: “Most people do not know a home battery works without solar panels.
“For the households in Battery Boost it works without them paying a penny for it: the battery is provided free, fills up overnight when electricity is cheap and runs the home when it is not, and the first customers are nearly £500 a year better off as a result. That is what making new energy work for everyone means in practice – the benefit reaching those who need it most.”
The new agreement forms part of the company’s £4 million investment into providing 1,000 more batteries for customers.
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