Hidden charge adding £300 to gas and electricity bills should be slashed, energy boss admits

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Ministers are under pressure to overhaul the standing charges which cannot be avoided by customers even if they use little or no energy

, but the standing charge for a typical household on electricity will rise to from 52.97p per day to 53.37p, while for gas there will be an increase from 29.11p to 29.62p.

Scott Byrom, CEO of comparison website Energy Shop, added: “A growing proportion of what we are spending on energy is now going on this fixed fee that has gone up while the unit rates have come down and low income families can’t do anything about this. founder Martin Lewis telling Ofgem CEO Jonathan Brearley that there was a “lot of anger” over the increasing charges in a TV interview back in May.

 

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