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The Coalition’s new Energy Bill was launched at the end of last week.

Energy company E.On has apologised after it overcharged 94,000 customers when putting up tariffs. The customers affected will receive an average rebate of £14.83 each.

Energy provider E.ON has announced it will be putting up prices next year – the last of the ‘big six’ companies to do so. The supplier told customers the hike will take effect from January 2013.

Winter is set to be a struggle for energy consumers as prices are going up.

Average fuel costs for the elderly have been spiralling out of control.

Conservative minister Nick Hurd last week said better-off OAPs should consider donating their winter fuel payments to charity.

Seeing as it is so cold at the moment in the UK, most people are prompted to hibernate by staying at home and ramping up the heating. However the big energy providers have now announced big price rises this winter.

The Fuel Poverty Advisory Group (FPAG) has urged the government to take on a “sky rocketing” problem.

Snow and the big freeze this week have raised concerns for the vulnerable. The sub-zero weather is, if anything, set to get worse as we go into the weekend, forecasters have warned.

Energy customers could face bills of an extra £55m in total following a new tariff comparison rate proposed by Ofgem, consumer group Which? claims.

Although Chancellor George Osborne hoped to deliver cheap energy by allowing for extensive fracking operations across the UK, it seems that his plans might be quite off, since a group of experts have just revealed the fact that any boom in shale gas production would be “unlikely to give the UK cheap gas”.

Due to the bout of very cold weather over the first four months of 2013, gas consumption levels went up around 18 per cent, while electricity usage was up 3 per cent over the same timeframe, sources from Centrica revealed.