Essex customers save £1m in energy auction

MORE THAN 300,000 people have saved a combined £1 million after joining an Essex County Council-supported collective energy scheme, with one man shaving £1,000 off his fuel bill.Now in its third year, the Essex Energy Switch launched Monday and is part of a scheme that sees people sign up to bulk-buy electricity to secure lower rates from energy companies.The average person saves £263 per year, but 77-year-old Robert Manning, from Chelmsford, saved nearly four times that...