MA Energy
MA Energy
Ceased trading
- What happened
- 2021-11-02 (ceasing to trade announced by Ofgem); electricity supply licence revoked 00:01 on 7 Nov 2021
- Customers moved to
- SmartestEnergy Business Limited (Supplier of Last Resort, effective 00:01 on 7 Nov 2021; about 300 non-domestic customers)
MA Energy Limited was a London-based electricity supplier to businesses. It was incorporated in 2008 as Midlands Associates Limited and took its current name in September 2008. It announced it was ceasing to trade on 2 November 2021, after failing to meet a £941,835.25 Renewables Obligation payment. Ofgem revoked its licence on 7 November 2021 and moved its customers to SmartestEnergy Business. The company went into administration and then creditors' voluntary liquidation, and is due to be dissolved on 27 September 2026.
Key facts
- Legal name
- MA ENERGY LIMITED
- Company number
- 06541758
- Company status
- Liquidation (creditors' voluntary liquidation from 18 May 2023; return of final meeting filed 27 Jun 2026; due to be dissolved 27 Sep 2026)
- Incorporated
- 20 March 2008
- Registered office
- 45 Skylines Village, Limeharbour, London, E14 9TS (registered office while trading, changed 18 Nov 2021); current registered office is the liquidator's address: Pearl Assurance House, 319 Ballards Lane, London, N12 8LY
- Website
- https://www.maenergy.co.uk/
- info@maenergy.co.uk
- Ofgem supply licence
- No
Tariffs
- Business electricity only (non-domestic customers; electricity supply licence only)
Customers and switching
MA Energy no longer supplies energy. Its roughly 300 business electricity customers moved to SmartestEnergy Business Limited under Ofgem's Supplier of Last Resort process from 7 November 2021. SmartestEnergy agreed to honour credit balances for current and former MA Energy non-domestic customers. Anyone still owed money or owing money should deal with SmartestEnergy or the insolvency practitioners: Ashok K Bhardwaj (Bhardwaj Limited, 47/49 Green Lane, Northwood, HA6 3AE) and Asher Miller (Pearl Assurance House, 319 Ballards Lane, London N12 8LY). They were administrators from 10 Nov 2021 and have been joint liquidators since 18 May 2023. Former customers can compare business electricity from any licensed supplier.
Sources
- find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/06541758
- find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/06541758/insolvency
- find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/06541758/filing-history
- ofgem.gov.uk/press-release/ofgem-protects-customers-omni-energy-limited-ma-energy-limited-zebra-power-limited-and-ampoweruk-ltd
- ofgem.gov.uk/publications/ma-energy-limited-notice-revocation-electricity-supply-licence
- ofgem.gov.uk/decision/direction-appoint-smartestenergy-business-limited-electricity-supplier-last-resort-ma-energy-limited
- ofgem.gov.uk/press-release/ofgem-appoints-new-suppliers-customers-cng-energy-and-cng-electricity-ma-energy-omni-energy-bluegreen-energy-zebra-power-and-ampower
- ofgem.gov.uk/sites/default/files/2022-11/Decision%20Letter%20-%20MA%20Energy.pdf
- ofgem.gov.uk/publications/ma-energy-limited-provisional-order
- maenergy.co.uk
- citizensadvice.org.uk/about-us/information/how-does-your-non-domestic-supplier-stack-up
Checked September 2026