EBICo

EBICo was founded in 1998 and is a not-for-profit Company, limited by Guarantee. The Company's aim is to harness the power of 'the market' to tackle real issues of social justice. EBICo develop commercially viable ventures that enable all consumers to use their purchasing power to further ethical goals. EBICo's guiding principles are a bias towards those on low incomes and stewardship of resources. They believe that these principles are entirely consistent with those of the Christian Gospel. Their initiatives have been making a real difference to low income households since 1999.

Ebico are also at the forefront of fair energy pricing, and well over 50,000 UK homes have already switched to Ebico's fair tariffs because of not only because their tariff structure is transparent and straight forward but also because of their innovative carbon-offsetting service.

With no shareholders to keep happy, Ebico don't have to deal out dividends, instead, use the resources to provide fairer rates for every customer - regardless of income or circumstances, or payment method.

Over the last few years Ebiso have been working with a number of organisations to promote the message of fairness in the energy industry, whilst also attempting to assist those customers in fuel poverty. At the beginning of 2009 the customer numbers had more than doubled and Ebico are now working with nearly 40 housing associations. The work helping those in fuel poverty broadened with the launch of The Ebico Trust for Sustainable Development; the charitable trust fund set up to enable any Company surpluses to be used to support sustainable fuel poverty initiatives.

In July 2009 Ebico i-measure, was launched, in association with Oxford University's Environmental Change Institute. A tool which helps to encourage customers to be responsible with their home energy usage, in turn cutting their carbon footprint, and the size of their bills.