Heatwave warning: Britons face £50 weekly surge in electricity bills

As temperatures soar, households are warned of a potential £50 weekly increase in electricity bills, driven by the energy crisis and the rising cost of cooling appliances

Suppliers could soon be offering cheaper fixed tariffs

Deals priced between £2,200 and £2,500 could soon be available in the market, new report suggests

Energy suppliers ‘sitting on a hoard of £4.5bn in customer credit’

Fears are growing as Ofgem has axed plans to require all energy suppliers to ringfence their customers’ credit balances

UK energy debt soars

Almost three million UK households owe more to their energy suppliers, new report finds

Thousands of Britons turn to prepayment meters amid energy crisis

Nearly 10,000 prepayment meters are predicted to be installed every month this winter, according to a report

British households keen to cut energy use to tackle soaring bills

More than one-in-ten homes say they will not be able to cope with rising energy bills whatever they do, new survey shows

Energy debt hits £1.3bn before the ‘perfect storm’ breaks

Nearly six million households owe an average of £206 to energy suppliers, new report suggests

A quarter of customers ‘are in debt to their energy supplier’

The amount of money households owe to their energy suppliers has doubled in a year to reach £1 billion, according to a report

Millions of SVT customers ‘in the dark’, days before the new price cap comes into force

Almost a quarter of energy customers have not been contacted by their suppliers about price changes, according to new research

One-in-six prepayment customers ‘avoided using energy for at least two days’

Nearly 35% have sat in a coat and hat indoors to avoid turning the heating on, new survey suggests