The company is looking for the over-60s to team up with a grand or great grandchild aged between seven and twelve to write an energy or money savings tip each.  Tips can be submitted on eonenergy/grandtips.com by Wednesday 25 November.

The top 10 teams' tips will be included in an E.ON's StayWarm Winter ‘Grand' Tips web feature, with the nine runners up winning a family day out of their choice up to the value of £150.  The best overall tips from a team will win a place for the child as a team mascot at an FA Cup, sponsored by E.ON, Semi Final 2010 plus tickets for the family³.

Stewart Laithwaite, one of E.ON's dedicated StayWarm customer advisers, said: "As a granddad and StayWarm customer myself I think it's a great initiative to encourage grandparents and grandchildren to share their experience and knowledge.  My grandson and I have already given it a go and came up with quite a few tips between us that we think will save our family energy and money too."

E.ON's unique StayWarm product offers fixed price gas and electricity providing peace of mind for people aged 60 or over⁴. The amount a customer pays is fixed for 12 months from when they sign up, so there are no unexpected bills. 

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Notes to editors:

1. Source Age Concern and Help the Aged research carried out between 24th-30th April 2009 and based on 943 of respondents.
2. Based on a survey E.ON StayWarm customers
3. Runners up will be given a cheque to the value of £150 to pay for a family day out of their choice.Children below the age of 7 and above the age of 12 up to the age of 16 will be eligible to enter however will not be eligible for the first prize.  Mascots must be aged between seven and twelve.  First prize includes ticket for the child and grand/great grandparent and two others.  Terms and conditions apply.
4. You can join StayWarm if: The account holder is over 60 years of age; The home has three bedrooms or less; Four people or less live in the home; Customers takes both electricity and gas from E.ON; The customer pays by fixed monthly Direct Debit.  StayWarm is designed for households that do not use very large amounts of energy some households may therefore not qualify to join.

• We are sponsoring The FA Cup, which is known as The FA Cup sponsored by E.ON;
• E.ON is one of the UK's leading power and gas companies - generating and distributing electricity, and retailing power and gas - and is part of the E.ON group, one of the world's largest investor-owned power and gas companies. We employ around 17,000 people in the UK and more than 92,000 worldwide;
• E.ON's retail business is a leading energy supplier in the UK with around 5.5 million electricity and gas customers, covering domestic, SME and industrial. E.ON also offers central heating and boiler care;
• We are a market leader in combined heat and power, providing our customers with around 600MW of electricity and more than 1,000MW of heat at 13 sites across the country;
• We're one of the leading green generators in the UK, with 20 wind farms located from Cornwall to Northern Ireland. We own and operate one of the UK's largest dedicated biomass power stations at Lockerbie. Combined, our renewable portfolio generates enough green energy to power the homes in a city the size of Manchester;
• Our green development portfolio could power over a million homes and displace the emission of almost two million tonnes of carbon dioxide a year by building new onshore and offshore wind farms, biomass power stations, and tidal stream and wave power schemes;
• Our target is to cut the carbon released by each kW of electricity we generate by 10% between 2005-2012, having already reduced it by 20% since 1990;
• We've installed over 350,000 cavity wall and loft installation measures since 2006, as well as energy efficient boilers and smart meters to help customers manager their energy more efficiently;

For more information contact:

Louise Nottage at E.ON on 02476 181942 or louise.nottage@eonenergy.com or Daniella Davies on 02476 191511 or Daniella.Davies@eon-uk.com.