British Gas, one of the UK’s largest energy suppliers, has just revealed plans to increase prices for its estimated 8 million domestic customers, with a dual-fuel bills going up by 9.2% from 23 November.
The UK’s six biggest energy firms will have to give evidence to MPs from the Energy and Climate Change Committee regarding their recent price hikes, a news report in the mainstream media has revealed.
Following closely in the footsteps of SSE and BritishGas, Npower, owned by Germany’s RWE, has just become the third supplier to raise gas and electricity prices over the past couple of weeks,
Since all of the ‘Big Six’ energy suppliers that have announced significant price hikes thus far have partially blamed their decision on the costs associated to the Government’s Energy Company Obligation (ECO) scheme, Edward Davey, Secretary of State for Energy, has decided to provide an official answer on this matter and made official the exact figures associated to the scheme.
The recent energy price hikes announced by four of the UK’s Big Six energy suppliers have been met with discontentment and significant hostility by consumers, thus prompting ministers to take a very tough public stance against these companies.
The brand news Consumer Insight Tracker survey by Which? has revealed some rather disturbing facts regarding the consumers’ level of trust in the energy industry, with roughly 60% of all people who answered the questionnaire saying that they don’t trust energy firms at all.
Following the rest of the “Big Six” energy suppliers, Scottish Power has also announced that, starting with December, it plans to push up dual-fuel bills by 8.6%.
Following EDF’s energy bills’ hike, announced yesterday, E.ON remains the only major UK energy supplier not to have announced a significant increase in their winter fuel bills.
EDF Energy, one of the UK’s Big Six energy suppliers, has just announced a winter price hike of just around 3.9 percent on dual fuel bills, which is the smallest yet, compared to the rest of the energy companies out there.
Energy UK, the energy industry’s trade body, has warned that household bills could rise by another 50% over the next six years, a news report in the mainstream media has revealed.
The UK’s smaller energy suppliers have already started to reap the benefits of the decision by the “Big Six” companies to push up prices in the form of a solid flow of new customers, a brand new media report has revealed.
