Sentences with phrase «rising wholesale energy prices»

Though this was not mentioned by British Gas, a BEIS report published last week says rising wholesale energy prices are partly due to the weak pound, which has fallen in the wake of the EU referendum in mid-2016.

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U.S. wholesale prices (PPI) rose a full 1 percent in July as energy costs surged.

Ed Miliband's energy price freeze would lead to power cuts if wholesale prices rose, the co-founder of energyhelpline.com has told Politics.co.uk.

Blaming an increase in wholesale energy prices, Npower has told its four million customers to expect average gas prices to rise by 17.2 per cent and electricity by 12.7 per cent, with other suppliers expected to follow suit.

Ofgem, the energy regulator, has found that bills respond faster when wholesale prices rise than when they fall.

A study by the New York Affordable Reliable Electricity Alliance found that New York's wholesale electricity market prices (that is the price of fuel itself) went down by nearly 30 percent since 2008, but state energy taxes shot up 168 percent and transmission fees rose 55 percent over the exact same time period.

The grid operator testified that «wholesale energy prices and emissions will rise when extreme weather results in natural gas pipeline constraints — driving up the price of natural gas (and wholesale energy) and forcing New England to rely on oil - and coal - fired generation for multi-day (or multi-week) periods.»

The Telegraph and British Gas also ignore recent findings from energy regulator Ofgem, which show that wholesale energy price rises over the past 12 months have raised costs for utility firms.

Now, let's assume that the «right» amount of margin for a duel fuel energy company is # 50, and then that the current October price was caused by increases in wholesale costs, and the other actual rises.