{"id":235492,"date":"2025-10-31T07:30:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T07:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/235492\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T07:30:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T07:30:23","slug":"uk-regulator-sets-out-plan-to-write-off-500-million-energy-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/235492\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Regulator Sets Out Plan to Write Off \u00a3500 Million Energy Debt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The UK energy regulator proposes tackling the country\u2019s massive household energy debt by writing off as much as \u00a3500 million ($659 million) in unpaid bills and spreading those costs across all consumers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Britain\u2019s household energy debt has ballooned to over \u00a34.4 billion ($5.8 billion) in the past five years, as a growing number of households struggled to pay their bills after the Russian invasion of Ukraine saw gas and power prices soar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The UK energy regulator proposes tackling the country\u2019s massive household energy debt by writing off as much as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[456,84,460,1294,21571,4176,13170,89762,467,306,56,157,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-235492","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-bonds","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-debt","11":"tag-economy","12":"tag-energy-industry","13":"tag-finance","14":"tag-fixed-income","15":"tag-greener-living","16":"tag-markets","17":"tag-regulation","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-ukraine","20":"tag-united-kingdom","21":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235492","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=235492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}