{"id":786936,"date":"2026-09-30T01:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T01:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/786936\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T01:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T01:26:10","slug":"household-energy-bills-forecast-to-see-biggest-rise-in-four-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/786936\/","title":{"rendered":"Household energy bills forecast to see biggest rise in four years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Among others calling for government help for struggling billpayers is Simone Rossi, chief executive of supplier EDF Energy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking exclusively to the BBC&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/p0pd0z9v\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Big Boss Interview<\/a> podcast, Mr Rossi said: &#8220;We are actually walking into a second significant energy crisis after the one we experienced just four years ago.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said that the government should extend the cut in VAT on electricity bills from 5% to 0% beyond April, when it is due to expire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He also urged ministers to give the go-ahead to the new Jackdaw gas field off the coast of Aberdeen, and the Rosebank oil field off Shetland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The government has consistently said that it will consider ways to offer breathing space to billpayers on the cost of living.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Additional reporting by Oliver Smith and Paul Seddon. Graphics by Miguel Roca-Terry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Among others calling for government help for struggling billpayers is Simone Rossi, chief executive of supplier EDF Energy.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":786937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-786936","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\/786936","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=786936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/786937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}