{"id":171839,"date":"2025-10-01T02:57:05","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T02:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/171839\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T02:57:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T02:57:05","slug":"suppliers-want-help-for-billpayers-as-energy-prices-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/171839\/","title":{"rendered":"Suppliers want help for billpayers as energy prices rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An immediate issue for households is the 2% increase that has now taken effect for millions of people in England, Scotland and Wales who are on variable tariffs. Those who have fixed deals will not be affected. The regulator and suppliers say people should investigate whether a fixed tariff saves them money and fits their circumstances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ofgem&#8217;s cap sets the maximum price that can be charged for each unit of gas and electricity. The increase for October to the end of December means a household using a typical amount of energy will pay \u00a31,755 a year, up \u00a335 a year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Individual households can calculate their estimated specific change by adding \u00a32 onto every \u00a3100 they spent on energy each year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Higher bills are the result of extra financial support through the Warm Home Discount, and costs involved in matching the supply of energy with demand, which includes switching generators such as windfarms on and off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Households can try their best to further safely manage their energy use during a colder and darker time of year, although that has been the norm for millions over recent years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An immediate issue for households is the 2% increase that has now taken effect for millions of people&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-171839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}