FIVE REASONS WHY ENERGY BILLS ARE SO HIGH – AND STILL RISING
We’re spending more and more on energy with no end in sight, regardless of what shade of green we plan for our future. Can we do anything about it? Gas prices are not easy to control, but politicians do set energy taxes and levies, and decide on how investment in low-carbon power generation, the power grid and energy efficiency is spent. Understanding what makes up our energy bills is key to holding politicians and energy providers to account. Here are the five reasons your g
HEATING BILLS PUSH 11% OF HOUSEHOLDS BELOW THE POVERTY LINE
Around 2.5 million households were struggling to pay their fuel bills in England in 2015, official figures show. Some 11% of households faced heating bills that pushed them below the poverty line in 2015, the latest year for which figures are available – a slight rise from 10.6% in 2014. The gap between the bills that fuel-poor households faced and what they could afford to pay was more than £350, but had fallen since the previous year, the statistics show. Levels of fuel pov
