Martin Lewis has been urging every energy customer across Scotland and the rest of the UK to take meter readings ahead of Ofgem’s energy price hike coming into force on Friday, April 1.
However, the nation has heeded the consumer champion’s advice and now one energy company is ‘blaming’ him for their website crashing due to the increased volume of customers trying to submit a final meter reading.
Birmingham Live reports that E.ON Next is attributing the website crash to his advice, going as far as to accuse him of ‘bringing down Britain’ as its energy customers flock to Twitter to complain about not being able to access their online accounts.
User Kate Baldock said: “Just tried to submit my meter readings the day before the new energy price cap comes in and the @eon_next website is down.
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