Citizens Advice has responded to energy supplier E.ON freezing the price of its standard tariff until April 2017.
Gillian Guy, chief executive of Citizens Advice, said:
“Now that half of the six largest energy suppliers have frozen prices for standard tariff customers all eyes are on the other three.
“The savings that larger energy suppliers failed to pass on when wholesale prices were down now offer suppliers a way to help their customers. Given three of the largest suppliers have been able to do so, we expect the rest to follow suit.
“A longer-term solution is still needed to tackle the higher costs loyal customers pay year after year on the standard tariff. One way the government could tackle this would be to make suppliers switch people who are on a low income and have been on the standard tariff for a number of years to a cheaper deal.”