Energy retail

Weekend press: Octopus Energy closes in on Shell deal

DFS must not punish those unable to take part

Pressure mounts on government to scrap price cap

How utilities can shift from an ego-system to an eco-system

SoLR payments to be extended after supplier pushback

Price cap falls below £2,000

Warm Home Discount scheme ‘long way short’ of social tariff

Eon downgraded over switching failures

Energy price cap is here to stay

UKPN backs wider use of vouchers for disabled customers

EDF agrees seven-year PPA with Scottish windfarm

‘Serious concerns’ raised over Ovo’s complaints handling

Weekend press: Health check of England’s waters faces six-year wait

Energy bills scheme pays out to one-sixth of eligible households

Only around one-sixth of eligible households obtained energy bills support through the scheme set up to help customers lacking a direct contract with a supplier, new figures show. The figures, obtained by Age UK through a Freedom of Information request to the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ), shows 147,760 households received £400 payments through the Energy Bills Support Scheme- Alternative Fund (EBSS-AF) by the end of June, costing the Exchequer a total of £59.1 million.

Government must not see price cap as answer to affordability