{"id":115547,"date":"2025-10-11T13:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T13:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/115547\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T13:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T13:14:09","slug":"how-to-keep-your-home-warm-and-save-on-bills-as-winter-starts-to-bite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/115547\/","title":{"rendered":"How to keep your home warm and save on bills as winter starts to bite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Better insulation and tech upgrades are among actions that can make a real difference to how much you pay\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Some energy companies have increased prices for winter, while others have reduced them. Stock image. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/GettyImages_1403235811.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Some energy companies have increased prices for winter, while others have reduced them. Stock image. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">There were slim pickings in the budget for hard-pressed households, and as expected, no new energy credits finding their way into our pockets to alleviate the winter bills.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">There\u2019s not much we can do about government policy, oil prices or President Trump\u2019s latest outpourings, so when it comes to insulating ourselves for what\u2019s to come, it\u2019s a good idea to at least insulate our homes against the cold, and give our house insurance a shaking out too, to save some money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Better insulation and tech upgrades are among actions that can make a real difference to how much you&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[42765,79,2190,18,40296,48122,19,17,44129,18612],"class_list":{"0":"post-115547","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-bord-gais-energy","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-cost-of-living","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-electric-ireland","13":"tag-energia-group","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-sinead-ryan","17":"tag-sse-airtricity"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}