🗣️Heat your home with oil? From 21 July, a £9,000 government grant opens to help you switch to a heat pump, up from £7,500. Real support that can help protect against future price spikes, but there is a lot more work to do to help off-gas grid homes. Find out more: cleanenergy.campaign.gov.uk

🗣️Energy firms made over £3bn in profits from UK operations in just three months. That windfall is potentially benefiting CEOs, non-exec directors and even some peers in the House of Lords, while households face a 13% rise in the price cap. Read more: www.endfuelpoverty.org.uk/lords-see-va...

🔘The Radio Teleswitch Service (RTS) is switching off, the signal that's controlled heating tariffs for hundreds of thousands of households, disproportionately rural and disproportionately older residents on electric storage heating. [1/3]

🗣️While households across the UK face the 13% price cap rise, some members of the House of Lords have seen their oil and gas shareholdings grow. The very people responsible for scrutinising energy laws are potentially profiting from the crisis it has failed to prevent. [1/3]

Energy price cap rise ‘will push millions in Great Britain into fuel poverty’

💡 Today, 1 July, the energy price cap increases. This will add £221 to the average household energy bill and push millions further into energy debt, while the energy industry profits. Lets lay out why this is happening 👇️

🗣️£221 rise to the average energy bill this week. And Cornwall Insight's outlook? Just a 0.5% fall in October, and only if a fragile ceasefire holds. [1/3]

🔴 @andyburnham.bsky.social 's plan to "rewire" Britain includes greater public control of energy and lower bills, and that's the right direction.
 
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📈 Consumer energy arrears + debt has tripled in the past 5 years. Customers now owe a total of £4.79 billion to suppliers, according to new Ofgem data. During those 5 years, energy bills have increased by 79%. ❗️It would take energy companies a few months to pay off the debt with their huge profits.

🗣️Parliament has passed the Seventh Carbon Budget, committing the UK to cutting emissions by 87% by 2040. It happened hours after one of the hottest June days ever recorded in Britain. [1/4]

📰 Latest Debt / Money Advice Sector News: @endfuelpoverty.bsky.social says energy debt fears are plaguing UK households as industry profits rise malg.org.uk/end-fuel-pov...

📅 Energy bills go up in one week and the new price cap adds over £200 to the average bill, with the increase driven almost entirely by gas. Read your meter, and contact your energy supplier if you have any concerns. Watch this film to understand why this is happening and what we're calling for.

🔴 The Winter Fuel Payment backlash and inaction on living costs helped trigger the Labour leadership race. ➡️ Whoever wins cannot make energy bills an afterthought. #EndFuelPoverty #PrimeMinister #PrimeMinisterResigns [1/2]

⚠️As temperatures stay above 20°C through the night, the Met Office is warning that millions of people simply cannot recover from the day's heat before the next one begins. [1/4]

🗣️The Iran conflict is driving up gas unit rates by 28% in a single quarter. Meanwhile, the energy companies who pocketed £3 billion in profits from UK operations in just three months aren't giving that back. [1/2]

⏰ We’re laying bare the cost of years of failure to fix the energy debt crisis. ➡️ 1 in 3 people are in energy debt or worried that they soon will be. Many are making impossible decisions to make ends meet. 💰 Energy giants making billions from price shocks should help clear the debt mountain.

We talk about people in debt burying their heads in the sand... but it's the government that's burying its head over the sheer scale of debt in the country. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Our research reveals today that almost 1 in 3 in the UK are in energy debt, or worried about falling behind. For those in debt, their experiences of survival are deeply troubling. Meanwhile, the UK energy industry rakes in big profits – £3bn in the first 3 months of this year. Let's break it down. ⬇️

Nearly 1 in 3 UK adults are in energy debt or worried about falling behind. Median arrears: £750. UK energy industry profits: £3bn in 3 months. New research out today lays bare the true cost of years of failure to fix the energy debt crisis. www.endfuelpoverty.org.uk/energy-debt-...

🚨Household energy debt has more than doubled since 2021, up 118%, according to the National Audit Office. ➡️Millions are struggling with bills, yet most people don't know support like repayment plans and social tariffs exist. [1/2]

🗣️MPs debated energy costs in Westminster yesterday. 📈Energy giants stand to make billions in extra profits from Trump's war on Iran, while ordinary households face higher bills as a result. [1/2]

BP paid £422 million in windfall tax last year, and in the first three months of 2026 alone, its profits more than doubled to £2.4 billion. [1/4]

⚡️ 19.3 million adults in the UK have become more interested in home energy technology, such as solar panels, heat pumps and insulation, since the start of the Iran conflict. (1/3) #IranWar #EndFuelPoverty

📣 "One hundred days on from the start of the Iran conflict, the bill for Britain’s dependence on fossil fuels is landing on doormats across the country." Simon Francis, co-ordinator of the End Fuel Poverty Coalition, in @mstaronline.bsky.social: www.morningstaronline.co.uk/article/camp...

101 days after the #IranWar began, and fossil fuel prices are at a new high. In a few weeks, we'll all see the impact of our reliance on oil and gas, as our energy bills increase by £221 on average. Meanwhile, for the energy industry? £26.2bn in global profits in the first three months of the year.

£26 billion in profits for the energy industry, a £221 per year energy bill rise for you #IranWar #100Days #cartoon

🗣️100 days since the Iran conflict began. 📈Household bills up ➡️ £221 on the average bill. 📈Energy firm profits up ➡️ £26.2bn in global profits. Behind every percentage point on the Ofgem price cap is a household whose direct debit is about to go up, and an energy firm whose profits already have.

🚨ScottishPower sent a vulnerable 76-year-old an £8,400 bill based on a meter reading error from 2022. He paid it using half his savings. This is what happens when there are no proper checks on vulnerable customers' accounts. [1/2]

❎OVO Energy has agreed a £10.4m settlement after Ofgem found it failed to adequately monitor vulnerable prepayment meter customers, including those on the Priority Services Register. ➡️This comes weeks after the record British Gas PPM settlement. [1/3]

🗣️ One fossil fuel price shock costs the UK economy as much as the entire net zero pathway to 2050. And we're living through another shock right now - increases to energy bills from 1 July are proof of this. [1/3]

Scottish First Minister John Swinney has called the windfall tax on oil and gas profits 'much hated’, but recent polling found that twice as many Scots support the windfall tax as oppose it, with backing across voters from all parties. [1/2]

For the best part of a decade the UK had a policy of maximising oil and gas production from the North Sea and throughout that time the economy continued its miserable run of form. www.thetimes.com/article/cc56...

What if I told you "removing all fossil fuels from UK's energy supply" and "Preventing increases in energy bills" are the same thing?

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿For newly elected MSPs debating Scotland's energy the ask is clear: 1️⃣ A £20m annual fuel poverty crisis fund 2️⃣ A social tariff based on actual need 3️⃣ Serious support for community energy 4️⃣ Retrofit treated as national infrastructure priority [1/3]

Thanks @lbc.co.uk for letting me have my say on the price cap rise today. The next energy bill crisis starts on 1 July and households need short and long-term support to be ready. www.lbc.co.uk/article/ener...

📈From 1st July, average energy bills will rise by £221, a 13.5% increase, and £820 more than households were paying before the 2021 energy crisis began. The main driver is the cost of gas, which is 25% up on last quarter. [1/4]

🗣️Energy bills aren’t just a winter problem. ☀️Households already facing a predicted 13% bill rise in July now face cooling costs as our summers get warmer and heatwaves become more frequent. There is no off-season for fuel poverty. #EndFuelPoverty #CostOfLiving #Heatwave

Households are bracing for a predicted £209 rise in energy bills. Meanwhile, major energy moguls are making big bucks. Our analysis of The Sunday Times’ Rich List 2026 shows that 16 individuals with energy links grew their wealth by a combined total of £2.8 billion in the past year...

“There are around 4.5 million adults who have been made unwell by overheating in their homes and they are not people who can simply open a window or switch on the air conditioning. “The poorest neighbourhoods are seven times more likely to be vulnerable." www.endfuelpoverty.org.uk/record-may-h...

Too often, our Helpline hears from older people forced to skip meals and sit in dark homes because of soaring energy bills. We've supported the @endfuelpoverty.bsky.social letter because the UK Govt must step up for older people https://bsky.app/profile/endfuelpoverty.bsky.social/post/3mlq6ihmm2s27

Billionaire businessman Ian Wood began building his fortune during the North Sea oil boom of the 1970s with his company Wood Group. He’s sold the company now, but he and his family are still worth almost £2billion according to The Sunday Times 2026 Rich List. (1/3)

The UK just broke its hottest ever May temperature record. With warnings of more extreme weather to come in the future, we need coordinated action to upgrade homes for all seasons, not just winter. www.endfuelpoverty.org.uk/record-may-h...

Energy bosses like Jim Ratcliffe, the founder of energy giant Ineos, are worth more than you think. This year? Ratcliffe is worth more than £15billion – enough to pay the annual electricity and gas bills of more than 9 million Brits. (1/3)

Daniel Křetínský is the co-owner of energy company EPH, which owns gas-fired power stations in the UK and operates across the energy market chain in Europe. (1/4)

🗣️The Government's "Great British Summer Savings" covers bus fares and food tariffs, but energy bills are forecast to rise 8% year-on-year from July, with gas unit rates up 13%. [1/3]

🌍 Without action, climate impacts could cost the UK £260 billion a year by 2050, according to today's Climate Change Committee report. [1/4]

Individuals linked to the energy industry raked in billions over the past year, including Idan Ofer. The billionaire businessman holds a majority stake in Kenon Holdings, which operates power plants in Israel and the US. [1/3]

📈While energy companies have made more than £3bn in profits from UK operations in just three months, independent energy analysts Cornwall Insight are predicting another rise in our bills. [1/3]

Once a year, the @thetimes.com Rich List documents where wealth has accumulated. This year it makes for uncomfortable reading alongside a looming energy bill rise. As the combined wealth of Britain's 350 richest people has grown, the rest of the country faces a renewed cost of living crisis [1/3]

British Gas has finally been held to account for the forced prepayment meter scandal. Ofgem found the company knew about failings and still didn’t act. The regulator has said the firm must pay compensation and has been fined. But the story isn’t over... www.endfuelpoverty.org.uk/british-gas-...