{"id":381769,"date":"2026-01-01T14:47:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T14:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/381769\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T14:47:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T14:47:11","slug":"energy-price-cap-rises-slightly-as-temperatures-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/381769\/","title":{"rendered":"Energy price cap rises slightly as temperatures fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But the Warrington couple are still cutting back on luxuries to cover bills.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We get a rise on our pension but it gets taken off you by food, petrol and everything else going up all the time so really you don&#8217;t benefit,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There is some hope on the horizon in spring, though. In the Budget, Chancellor Rachel Reeves said some levies placed on energy bills would go, lowering bills for millions of households by \u00a3150 a year from April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That included cutting a scheme that was designed to tackle fuel poverty and help reduce carbon emissions, as well as shifting some costs onto general taxation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">People on fixed deals in April would still benefit from the changes, the government has confirmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, about \u00a330 will be knocked off those annual savings from April <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cp84yymxpjno\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">to pay for maintaining gas networks<\/a> and strengthening the electricity transmission network.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There are also signs of lower wholesale costs, paid by suppliers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Analysts at energy consultancy Cornwall Insight predict an 8% drop in the price cap in April &#8211; the equivalent of a fall of \u00a3138 to \u00a31,620 a year for a household using a typical amount of gas and electricity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But the Warrington couple are still cutting back on luxuries to cover bills. &#8220;We get a rise on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,101],"class_list":{"0":"post-381769","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}