Average annual energy bill to rise to £1,849 in Great Britain from April

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/feb/25/average-annual-energy-bill-great-britain-energy-price-cap-gas-electricity-charges

Posted by sjw_7

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  3. What’s up with energy prices here ?

    I came to the UK from Portugal in 2019 and at the time electricity was about 30% cheaper in the UK. (It pays VAT at 23% there and base price was slightly higher…)

    Now the price per KwH is double in the UK than it is in Portugal.

    I know gas prices and all but that affects the whole of Europe. Seems like we are just getting rinsed.

  4. Keep paying plebs, the shareholders need their money and the C suite need their bonuses, which is coincidentally the reason we are still reliant on fossil fuel imports from hostile rogue states.

  5. Let’s look after the countries Shareholders before looking after our own…

  6. According to recent reports, energy suppliers in the UK are expected to continue seeing significant profits in 2025, with figures showing energy companies have made substantial profits since the start of the energy crisis, reaching over £483 billion, with the “Energy Profits Levy” (windfall tax) remaining in place to capture a portion of these profits; however, the exact figures for 2025 are still uncertain and will depend on fluctuating energy prices and government policies. 
    Source: Google
    How much profit do these energy companies want to make?
    Why isn’t the government stopping them raising prices due to their massive profit margins?
    The running costs for chip shops, pubs and businesses is worse than people’s homes. There’s two cracking pubs in my area, one closed last year, one last week due to costs, they served great food, it’s a real shame.

  8. Holy shit I didn’t have my glasses on and thought that said monthly.

  9. Yet another feature, not bug, of Net Zero.

    The more we rely on wind and solar, the higher our bills will be.

  10. Council tax up, energy up, rents up. Nationwide putting credit card interest up to 50%. It’s clear wages aren’t increasing, so they want to increase household debt as much as possible. It’s very sad that they don’t see real people behind those debts and some people won’t make it through.

  12. Dividends, dividends, dividends 💰🤑, hear me out, how about the population of the uk be the share holder for utilities instead… of only there was a mechanism for population to pay bit for things we can all use….

  13. It baffles me they think we can just continue to magic extra money from thin air. There’s gonna be a breaking point and riots at some point over cost of living. I’m surprised we aren’t there already but it will come.

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