Archive: Energy Prices

'Smarter consumers' to lose money under Cameron's energy reform

Smarter costumers to lose out under reforms

Consumers who have shopped around for the cheapest energy tariff are likely to lose money when the government's energy reforms come into force.

Climate change policies 'not to blame' for high energy bills

Ministers: Time to engage with energy consumers

Huhne takes on the energy companies

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Unite calls for price cap as 'greedy' energy companies threaten to fuel inflation

Unite, Britain's biggest union, has today (Tuesday 16 October) warned that the fall in inflation is being threatened by greedy energy companies whose price hikes will re-ignite inflation putting further pressure on working families and the struggling economy.

IET: Draft Energy Bill needs to focus on reducing electricity demand

The Institution of Engineering & Technology (IET), the non-profit engineering body, has today called for the government to do more to encourage the reduction of electricity usage. The call is in response to the Draft Energy Bill, presented today in Parliament by Energy Minister Ed Davey, who stated that the Bill would ensure that the lights would stay on for years to come.

NEA: How can the most vulnerable manage energy bills in a high cost, low carbon world?

The UK Government is committed to a number of statutory objectives relating to energy security, renewables, climate change and fuel poverty. Compliance with this mix of environmental and social obligations has proven to be both challenging and costly and will continue to be so if Government objectives are to be attained.