LONDON, December 27 /PRNewswire/ -- England 'keeper and FA Cup winner David James has teamed up with energy company, FA Cup sponsor and Football League partner E.ON to launch Great Saves - a new campaign aimed at rewarding families up and down the country for making and sharing their great energy saves in the home, as well as recognising the great saves made on the pitch by championing the unsung heroes of the game - the keepers.

The energy conscious shot-stopper is backing the campaign to promote the most inventive tactics for saving energy around the home. By logging on to http://eongreatsaves.com, fans from up and down the country can share their best tips on cutting down on the consumption of energy.

From January, a panel of experts will be judging the tips and the winners will be rewarded with a range of exclusive FA Cup and Football League benefits and experiences, including signed merchandise, family ticket packages and the opportunity to get your hands on one of the most prestigious pieces of silverware in football - The FA Cup. The overall winner, crowned E.ON's Very Important Family, will win the ultimate FA Cup prize - the chance to walk out with the teams at The FA Cup Final at Wembley in May.

In celebration of great saves on the field, E.ON will be scouring the country's parks to uncover the nation's most remarkable amateur keepers and offering a series of coaching master classes to help develop and hone their shot stopping skills. The keepers with the most committed, amusing, interesting and down-right bizarre tales will be given a goalkeeping master class. Tell us your stories at: http://eongreatsaves.com

E.ON's Great Saves campaign also gives fans and their families to sample a host of football experiences away from the field of play. By visiting http://eongreatsaves.com to:

- Book the chance to get their hands on the famous trophy at The Great Saves Experience Keepers of all ages will be able to see how they measure up against Portsmouth's FA Cup winner David James, along with a host of other current keepers and former no1's as they're put through their paces as part of E.ON's interactive Great Saves Experience. - Make great saves at home with Power Savers Primary school children up and down the country will be hoping their simple energy saving steps at home will result in some great steps at Wembley as four lucky winners will lead out the teams at The FA Cup Final in May. The winner's schools will be able to share in their success too with a visit from a top goalkeeper and The FA Cup trophy itself! - Play a Question of Saves to win family ticket packages for E.ON customers

Last season, over 5,000 E.ON customers and their families took advantage of E.ON's family ticket giveaway. This year E.ON will be sending fans to even more FA Cup and Football League matches throughout the season.

Phil Boas, Head of Sponsorship Events at E.ON, said: As we one of the UK's leading energy companies, we always strive to give our customers the best possible experiences and our Great Saves campaign is just one way in which our customers can take advantage of some great football opportunities. Having the support from David James adds so much value to the initiative - he's passionate about green issues and one of the country's top goalkeepers. If anyone exemplifies great saves on the pitch and great energy saves at home - it's David.

David James, said: I like the way E.ON has used The FA Cup sponsorship to educate and raise awareness of environmental issues. Sport is great fun but is also the best way to engage people in serious messages and change behaviour.

By logging on to http://eongreatsaves.com, fans can find out more information on all Great Saves activities and events, share and learn energy saving tactics, play online games and win exclusive FA Cup and Football League prizes.

Notes to Editors: About Great Saves - The panel of energy experts includes: England and Portsmouth goalkeeper, David James, Fraser Winterbottom of the Energy Trust and Graham Bartlett, Managing Director of E.ON UK. - The 5 round-by-round (Third Round to Semi-Final) winners of the best energy saving tactic will win a mascot place for their child at The FA Cup Final and an accompanying adult ticket. Winners will be notified on the Monday following an FA Cup weekend. - In the final round of this competition, the 5 best energy tactics (winners from previous rounds) will be entered into a competition to win the Ultimate Family Prize. - The overall winner will be confirmed and notified on 3 May 2010. - Full terms and condition can be found at http://eongreatsaves.com. About 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 16,000 people in the UK and more than 90,000 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; - Our distribution business, branded Central Networks, provides a reliable supply to 9.5m people in central England through 133,000km of underground and overhead cables - enough to go round the Earth more than three times - and via almost 94,000 substations. The company covers an area from the Peak District in the north to parts of Bristol in the south, and from the Welsh Borders to the Lincolnshire Coast; - 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; A picture accompanying this release is available through the PA Photowire. It can be downloaded from http://www.pa-mediapoint.press.net or viewed at http://www.mediapoint.press.net or http://www.prnewswire.co.uk. For more information please contact: Alex Howells, Sponsorship PR Executive, E.ON alex.howells@eonenergy.com Tel: +44(0)7525-704-669 Kassi Denman, PR Senior Account Manager, brandRapport kdenman@brand-rapport.com Tel: +44(0)7917-137798

SOURCE: E.ON

CONTACT: For more information please contact: Alex Howells, Sponsorship PRExecutive, E.ON, alex.howells@eonenergy.com Tel: +44(0)7525-704-669; KassiDenman, PR Senior Account Manager, brandRapport, kdenman@brand-rapport.comTel: +44(0)7917-137798