Consuming issues with Georgie Frost, making the pound in your pocket go that little bit further.

A very, very good morning to you if you've just joined us. Welcome back, if you've been listening.

I'm joined in the studio with Ed Monk, the personal finance editor from This

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website and money section of the mail online. On behalf of us, they investigate all sorts of

issues from phone scams through to how to keep your household bills down and the best money

saving tips.

Energy is a good one. We'll be talking about that shortly and solar panels as well.

So now this could be the year that we don't see the traditional autumn,

winter price hike, so is it still worth switching? We're talking, of course, about energy bills.

Why switch? Who should do it? What can you save? And what do you do if it all goes wrong? Well, earlier this week, I touched on this subject with Will Hodson from The Big Deal. It's an energy switching website that he is a co-founder of.

Collective switching is like switching, except it brings together thousands of consumers to negotiate as one,

so you can create a better deal with more bargaining power than anyone could individually.

You get involved by going to the website, which is this is the big deal.com.

You sign up and we've taken every single care we can to make sure it's as simple as possible.

Once you've signed up, all you need to do is sit back and relax until we bring you the deal.

We are negotiating constantly with energy companies to create deals that are better than what's

available elsewhere.

There's been an era of price comparison website dominance.

But now increasingly, it looks as though the cheapest tariffs

are available with collective switches. It varies according to which region you're in, according to what

your usage is. And we would absolutely recommend that people use our site to get the comparison.

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