{"id":39535,"date":"2022-02-10T14:59:08","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T14:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shefnews.co.uk\/?p=39535"},"modified":"2022-02-10T14:59:08","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T14:59:08","slug":"sheffielders-outraged-at-energy-bill-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2022\/02\/10\/sheffielders-outraged-at-energy-bill-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheffielders &#8216;outraged&#8217; at energy bill rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Last week, Britain&#8217;s<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> independent <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.co.uk\/topic\/energy-prices\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">energy<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> regulator, Ofgem announced an expected surge in the energy price cap of 54 per cent from April 1.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This may see the average bill increase to as much as \u00a31,915, affecting nearly 22 million households across the UK.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The surge has left many Sheffield residents worried about rising costs amidst recovering from the pandemic.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-RY2ykpBxP4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rishi Sunak is set to announce a \u00a39 billion rebate package in the aim of easing the cost of the energy prices on people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a35.5 billion in loans will fund \u00a3200 energy rebates for all and \u00a33.5 billion council tax rebate for people in bands A-D with an average of \u00a3150.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jonathan Brearley, Chief executive of Ofgem said : \u201cWe know this rise will be extremely worrying for many people, especially those who are struggling to make ends meet, and Ofgem will ensure energy companies support their customers in any way they can.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The price cap increase is calculated by Ofgem based on the costs faced by suppliers, including buying energy from the wholesale market and levies for maintaining energy network infrastructure and renewable energy projects.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Check out this page for tips on how to save energy this winter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, Britain&#8217;s independent energy regulator, Ofgem announced an expected surge in the energy price cap of 54 per cent from April 1.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environment","category-top-story-4","post_format-post-format-video"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sheffielders &#039;outraged&#039; 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