EDF is knocking energy bills to £0 for customers who have a smart meter

An energy giant is giving thousands of customers FREE energy on Christmas Day. EDF Energy customers who sign up for the supplier's Sunday Saver Challenge will get eight hours of free power on December 25, it has confirmed ahead of Christmas.

To participate, customers must have a smart meter that gives them half-hourly reads. To get your meter on this setting, customers need to go to the "About Me" section in their EDF MyAccount by visiting edfenergy.com/myaccount/login.

Rich Hughes, director of retail at EDF, said: "We know the festive period can be a time of increased costs for us all, so we're thrilled to give back to our customers and hopefully make electricity costs one less thing to worry about when it comes to Christmas Day.

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"With Sunday Saver, EDF is helping families across the country enjoy their favourite festive past-times for free, and not just on the Sundays in December - on Christmas Day too." The announcement comes as new research finds Brits expect to spend up to 10 hours using devices and appliances on Christmas Day, including four hours cooking up their festive feasts - 69% longer than usual.

Households will host an average of six people over the festive period, with 70% saying they’ll probably use extra appliances to cook Christmas dinner and over a third (35%) will start to cook between 8-9am. EDF’s Sunday Saver Challenge launched in September 2024, with customers who took part in October’s challenge finding it easy, rewarding or motivating, and 88% would recommend it to friends or family. Three quarters (76%) of customers who signed up got at least four hours of free electricity in October.

The most popular ways customers made use of their free electricity on a Sunday were getting on top of laundry (85%), using the tumble dryer (53%) and cooking a roast (41%), while some batch cooked for the week (26%) or charged their electric vehicle (8%).

EDF’s free hours of electricity on Christmas Day are available automatically to all customers who sign up to its December Sunday Saver Challenge and will be applied to their account just after Christmas.