FE has just received a letter from his energy provider appraising him of price rises in August. I wonder how many people actually look at the figures given and calculate the actual rises overall.
To begin with the increase in electric supply seems to be a very good deal indeed. A 1% rise for both peak and off peak periods. Not bad I hear you say.
But we come to the gas tariff. A whopping increase of 20%.
And that’s not all. The daily service charge for gas has gone up by 26% and the electric by a humungous 79%.
I wonder how much of that is made up in green taxes?
I’ll give it a month to allow the cartel of energy providers to set their final prices and then goodbye Scottish Power.
Anyone else had rises in line with this?
Considering that Gas is currently (sic) generating 48% of our electricity, it's doubly surprising that basic price has only risen a tiny amount.
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Go to the "Generation By Fuel Type (table)" section. The green taxes are busy subsidising the pathetic 0.5% proportion that wind turbines are managing at the moment.