How the Big Six misled the Energy and Climate Change Committee
If it’s not wholesale prices or green levies that are causing such large spikes in the retail price, then what is?
Graph: Competition between the Big Six isn’t working
This very helpful graph from IPPR sets out exactly why the failure of competition between the Big Six energy companies is having such an impact on household energy bills.
Profits, executive pay and bonuses at the Big Six energy firms
At today’s Energy and Climate Change Committee the bosses of the Big Six are likely to face a grilling by MPs over recent hikes in customer bills.
Ed Miliband’s biggest challenge will be to convice a fatalistic electorate that government can make a difference
Miliband is not only taking on the Big Six energy companies, he is pushing back against a public fatalism about government power to effect change that has been over 30 years in the making.
Excess Big Six profits are real, but the main problem is still the wholesale gas price
The figures released by Ofgem today should in no way create the sense that the price of wholesale gas is not the main cause of rising energy bills.
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George Osborne’s pyrrhic victory
The most remarkable thing about this morning’s coverage of the quarterely GDP figures is how lightly George Osborne is getting off.
UK economy grows by 0.8 per cent
UK GDP grew by 0.8 per cent in the third quarter of 2013, according to the latest quarterly national accounts from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
Scottish Power blames ‘green levies’ for price rise yet paid £890m to shareholders last year
Scottish Power (SP) has just announced that it is to put up the price of its gas by an average of 8.5 per cent and electric by 9 per cent from 6 December.
5 things you should know about David Cameron and green taxes
Aside from the fact that green levies make up just a fraction of the cost of an average energy bill, there are a number of reasons why you should be suspicious of David Cameron’s latest move on green energy.