🔥 Every unit of gas is traded 13 times before it reaches a household / businesses customer.

⚡️ Every unit of electricity is traded 3 times.

💷 Every time a trade is made, this alters the wholesale price of #energy, which in turn impacts #energybills.

https://www.endfuelpoverty.org.uk/energy-markets-trading-firm-fined/

The #EnergyBills Support Scheme Alternative Fund was supposed to help some of the most vulnerable, who live in places like care homes, park homes and canal boats.

But it failed four-fifths of them.

The Government must now reopen the scheme.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/consumer-affairs/energy-bills-help-off-grid-homes-flawed-four-five-missed/

The child's personal finance class is looking at household energy bills today and how they are calculated.
Its taking all my willpower not to rant about standing charges!
I love the fact that he is being taught practical skills, I really wish we had been taught this stuff at school.
#Education #OnlineLearning #EnergyBills

Based on #Energybills prices (which people pay today on the standard variable tariff).
🔥 Every unit of gas costs 150% more than winter 2020/21.
🏠 The gas standing charge is 6% up.
⚡️Every unit of electricity is 67% more than winter 2020/21.
🏘️ The electric standing charge is 117% more.

https://www.endfuelpoverty.org.uk/what-will-ofgems-winter-price-cap-show/

Finally the PM has woken up to the fact that #energybills are causing households to struggle and businesses to close – including those in his own constituency.

But, of course, #energy policy is set by the Government… back to you Rishi…

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/rishi-sunak-prime-minister-government-richmond-north-yorkshire-b2386290.html

Official stats show there’s been a surge in #energy disconnections and average #energybills debt hits record levels.

Britain’s broken energy system keeps on failing.

https://www.endfuelpoverty.org.uk/surge-in-energy-disconnections-and-debt/

Almost 300 #energybills tariffs are set ABOVE the Ofgem price cap.

#Energy firms must either keep the cap - or remove exit fees from these products.

https://www.endfuelpoverty.org.uk/energy-bills-could-soar-for-customers-on-fixed-tariffs/

Home heating bills could fall by £24bn if the efficiency of 13m homes was upgraded to at least a C rating under the energy performance certificate (EPC) scheme by 2030, from research by Citizens Advice.

Warmer homes could help avoid 6,000 unnecessary winter deaths every & save the #NHS about £2bn by preventing millions of people from developing respiratory conditions including asthma.

#InsulateBritain #Insulation #EnergyBills #EPC #CitizensAdvice #EnergyEfficiency

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2023/jun/20/fixing-uk-draughty-homes-could-add-40bn-to-economy-by-2030-citizens-advice-energy-efficiency-standards

#power #shock #energybills #auspol

https://thenewdaily.com.au/finance/finance-news/2023/05/25/electricity-prices-2023/?utm_campaign=Dollars%20%26%20Sense%20-%2020230602&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Adestra&lr_hash=

Millions of #UK households will remain in fuel poverty for the foreseeable future, despite the latest #OFGEM price cap reduction.
The system is broken with no real reform in sight from any of the main political parties.
#Energy #EnergyBills #Gas #Electricity #UKPolitics

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/may/25/britain-energy-price-cap-cut-ofgem-electricity-gas-bills-how-changes-affect-you

The value of the @Shell share buyback programme is equivalent to the entire UK household #energy debt.

Figures from @ThisWinterUK show that a third of households are now in debt on their #energybills caused by the high prices imposed on us all.

https://www.ft.com/content/34175764-f7b3-432f-93ba-05cdd1b5bc19

How much of a good deal are current fixed #energy tariffs?

Future Energy Associates have crunched the data and calculate that these deals will boost the profits that firms make on #energybills by over £450 per customer.
https://www.endfuelpoverty.org.uk/energy-firms-set-for-profits-boost-from-fixed-tariffs/

The public believe more must be done to help with the #energybills crisis.

Councillors have a role to play in helping those in #fuelpoverty.

Find out more and - if you're standing in the 2023 #localelections - sign the pledge: https://bit.ly/3o5loJ3

No one should go into next winter already behind on their energy bills – the Government must urgently draw up a plan for households to escape the clutches of energy debt! Sign the petition now: https://38d.gs/714f
#EnergyBills #EnergyProfits #Petition

RT @NEA_UKCharity
The Energy Bills Support Scheme was a lifeline for many during winter. If you didn't redeem yours or didn't receive them, contact your supplier to get them reissued. The deadline to use the vouchers is the end of June. #EnergyBills

If people suspect they have not had an #EnergyBills Support Scheme payment - or if they may have misplaced their voucher - they should contact their energy firm immediately and check they get what they are owed.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/bills/article-12015535/Millions-energy-support-vouchers-remain-unclaimed-despite-June-cut-off.html

RT @NEA_UKCharity
Our director of policy @peterwsmith101 discusses the Priority Services Register with @BigIssue. He says that the way customers interact with it ‘can cause a lot of mental distress and is very time consuming, especially if they are paying for the call’. #EnergyBills https://twitter.com/BigIssue/status/1650760305620709378

While the House of Lords backed an important amendment to the planned hydrogen trials to prevent them being funded through our #energybills, there is still work to do:
https://www.endfuelpoverty.org.uk/lords-back-campaigners-call-for-changes-to-hydrogen-trials/

RT @newsfromrooftop
Council candidates line up to end fuel poverty | Pledge launched to help local authorities to help those in need. #FuelPoverty #EnergyBills #LocalElections https://therooftop.news/2023/04/24/council-candidates-line-up-to-end-fuel-poverty/

RT @NEA_UKCharity
Reported plans by @ofgem to allow suppliers to charge standard credit customers more ‘will result in increased hardship for a group that includes a disproportionate number of elderly people’, our head of policy @Matt_Copeland1 tells @thetimes https://bit.ly/3n6vfhn. #EnergyBills