More hikes for household energy bills

[Rocol]

Customers at Scottish & Southern Energy will see an increase in their domestic bills at the start of next year.

The company is the latest to announce price rises, with electricity going up by an average of 9.4 per cent and gas by 12.2 per cent.

This is on top of two price rises at the start of this year which saw bills rise by 13.6 per cent and 15.9 per cent.

SSE then promised in July that there would be no more changes to bills this year.
But customers have not been given much grace - these latest price hikes are to be introduced in January.

The company, which owns Southern Electric, Scottish Hydro Electric and Swalec in Wales, added that its prices for gas and for gas and electricity combined remained the lowest in the UK.

Alistair Phillips-Davies, energy supply director at SSE, said the consequences of three years of high wholesale energy prices were still being felt.

He added: "If, as everyone hopes, falls in wholesale energy prices continue and are sustained, we will move as quickly as we can to reverse the price rises of recent years."

I bet they are not as fast to lower prices, as they are at increasing them

[Setarime]

totally agree rocol, bet they are increasing their prices so there directors can have fatter wage packets

[TGLucario]

i agree...@ this rate....only a few people with be abe to have the money to pay the bills