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Following SSE’s price hike announcement, which is likely to be followed by similar bad news from the rest of the Big Six energy suppliers, industry experts are now asking for more transparency regarding the breakdown of energy costs, a media

The Welsh Government has set aside a £70m fund designed to convince energy-efficiency companies to carry out improvement works in Wales rather than elsewhere, a news report in the local business media has revealed.

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.

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 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 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%.

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.

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.

Labour’s proposal to freeze energy prices for 20 months should the party win the next elections has been rejected during a vote in the House of Commons, a news report in the media has revealed.

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.

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.