4,500 sign up to energy firm

A couple who are taking on the Big Six energy firms witha customer-owned energy company have preregistered more than 4,500 clients.

New users will begin to receive gas and electricity from People’ s Energy across the UK as the company begins trading.

David Pike, 53, and Karin So de ,47, were so fed up with existing UK energy firms they decided to raise £ 500,000 to do something about it.

Over the past year they have raised funds through crowd funding, secured an Ofgem licence, won an entrepreneurial and innovation award and built a team from their base in Musselburgh, near Edinburgh.

Now they are now open for business and keen to signup new customers for their ethical customerowned energy supplies.

Their vision is to put one million people in charge of their own energy by 2024 and provide an alternative for customers.

People’s Energy gives 75 per cent of profits back to its customers.

The company says it will share salaries, decisions, accounts and prices with customers which they say makesthe firm the first “completely transparent and customer-focused” energy company in the UK.