Following recent above inflation price rises introduced by British Gas, Scottish Power and npower, the Prime Minister David Cameron has announced that he plans to halve the green levies on electricity and gas bills to help consumers.  He is also considering a windfall tax on energy companies following comments by his predecessor Sir John Major […]

In a letter to Prime Minister David Cameron from the Energy Bill Revolution, an alliance against fuel poverty which includes Age UK and Barnardo’s, it is claimed that the UK is the second worst in Europe for householders suffering from fuel poverty.  Fuel poverty is defined as applying to those households which spend at least […]

There are as many as seven different social and environmental policies which are funded through household energy bills as green levies, rather than through general taxation and together they amount for 9% or around £110 of everyone’s electricity and gas bills.  Whilst less than 25% of the green levy subsidises renewable energy sources such as […]

Within days of SSE, one of the largest utility companies in the UK, raising its energy prices by 8.2%, Ed Davey, the Energy Secretary warned that Government ministers could not prevent gas and electricity prices from rising.  Although Ed Milliband promised that if Labour won the next General Election he would freeze energy prices for […]