{"id":447010,"date":"2025-09-23T23:27:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T23:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/447010\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T23:27:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T23:27:12","slug":"uk-energy-regulator-ofgem-to-enforce-lower-standing-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/447010\/","title":{"rendered":"UK energy regulator Ofgem to enforce lower standing charges"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">LONDON (Reuters) -Britain&#8217;s energy regulator Ofgem will require all major suppliers to offer lower standing charge <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/live\/trump-tariffs-live-updates-trump-vows-export-curbs-india-hike-on-deck-china-and-canada-envoys-visit-us-200619355.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:tariffs;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tariffs<\/a> by the end of January 2026, it said on Wednesday, while adding that the move was unlikely to reduce overall bills.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Standing charges are daily fixed fees added to unit prices customers pay for gas and electricity, designed to cover costs of connecting to the energy system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Consumer groups have criticised them as unfair because they are paid regardless of household energy consumption.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Under the new rules, suppliers will likely shift costs currently recovered through standing charges to other areas of bills like higher unit energy prices, Ofgem said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">However, the regulator and the government said the changes would give customers more choice over their energy bills.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">&#8220;This proposal will make more tariffs available on the market, giving people more options to pay lower standing charges if that suits their needs,&#8221; Britian&#8217;s Minister for Energy Consumers Martin McCluskey said in the Ofgem release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">(Reporting By Susanna TwidaleEditing by Bernadette Baum)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON (Reuters) -Britain&#8217;s energy regulator Ofgem will require all major suppliers to offer lower standing charge tariffs by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,1144,941,712,132022,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-447010","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-ofgem","14":"tag-scotland","15":"tag-standing-charge","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115256206555930735","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}