Tuesday 8 May 2012

Court fines UK power firm SSE over doorstep selling

British utility SSE was fined 1.25 million pounds on Friday by an English court for the mis-selling of energy supply contracts to consumers at their front doors three years ago.
SSE will not challenge the verdict and will pay the fine in full, it said.

"We accept that a company of SSE's standing and with SSE's values should not have found itself in this position and we are very sorry that it did," said Stephen Forbes, SSE's director of sales, marketing and energy services.

SSE stopped selling electricity and gas supply contracts at the doorstep in July 2011 and earmarked 5 million pounds in December to reimburse customers who felt they had been misled into signing a contract with SSE.

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