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Despite Ofgem’s claims that the new energy bills should be much easier to understand and could play a significant part in helping consumers save money by switching suppliers, they’re still too confusing for most people, a survey carried out by consumer group Which? Has recently revealed.

In quite an unexpected move, SSE, one of the UK’s “Big Six” energy suppliers, has revealed plans to freeze their energy tariffs until 2016, a news report in the business media has revealed.

Six local authorities from the Liverpool area have joined forces in order to promote fuel efficiency and try to lend a helping hand to the increasingly higher number of people living in fuel poverty, a news report on this topic in the local media has recently revealed.

The UK Green Building Council has publicly urged the Government to step in and take some immediate measures in order to help drive down the ever-rising energy bills and keep the least well off British home owners out of poverty.

24 local authorities across the UK will be offered a share of a £88 million pot from the Government for rolling out the Green Deal Communities scheme, the DECC (Department for Energy and Climate Change) has revealed in a statement.

The decision to launch an investigation into the issue of competition in the energy market has been met with mixed reactions, although most of the Big Six suppliers seem to welcome it, as its results “will help set public confidence”.

Ofgem and the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) will launch an official investigation into the actual level of competition between the UK’s Big Six suppliers following an official report from the former on the State of the Energy Market.

Ofgem, the energy market regulator, is calling on large suppliers to make sure money is returned to their former customers after their in-depth analysis revealed that these companies hold more than £400m in credit from closed accounts.

The families of close to 1,900 children living in poverty conditions in Boston, Lincolnshire, could actually be missing out on the Warm Home Discount scheme, which provides annual rebates off one’s fuel bills, a news report in the local media has recently revealed.

A tariff switching scheme has managed to help hundreds of York residents save money on their energy bills by negotiating the best available tariffs for them, a news report in the local media can reveal.

A small UK energy supplier has vowed to push average energy bills under the £1,000 threshold this year, following a drop in the wholesale price of gas, a news report on the matter can reveal.

65% of the home owners who have had a Green Deal assessment done have also installed at least one of the measures they were recommended, the latest figures released by the DECC have revealed.