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Centrica, the owner of British Gas, has said that UK wholesale gas costs are around 15% higher for next winter than last, and non-commodity costs are expected to add a further £50 to the cost of supplying the average household this year. This means that the trend for domestic energy costs therefore remains upwards.

However, E.ON have confirmed that despite the global trend of rising wholesale prices, they will not be raising their gas and electricity prices for the remainder of 2012.

Recently some of the cheapest fixed deals have been pulled from the market, but various cheap deals are still available, providing fixed prices until next year.

Considering the current climate, it’s a good time to encourage your customers to compare energy prices today to switch to a cheap fixed deal, while they are still available.

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Customers who have fixed energy deals coming to an end shortly should also be looking to compare and switch now!

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Tariffs coming to an end over the next few weeks include:
• British Gas Fixed Price June 2012
• British Gas Price Promise June 2012
• British Gas WebSaver 11
• E.ON SaveOnline
• npower Go Fix 5

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Based on average figures for the UK, the cheapest tariffs for consumers (with medium usage) are:

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Gas and electricity price rises at the end of last year are expected to have pushed 400,000 more households in England into fuel poverty.

The projected increase, reported by the Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC), took the total to 3.9 million households.

However, the rise came after a period of falling fuel poverty.

A household is considered to be in fuel poverty if it spends more than 10% of its income on heat and power.

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The DECC figures showed that across the UK, there were 5.5 million households in fuel poverty in 2009, falling to 4.75 million in 2010.

This figure included some 3.5 million in England in 2010, and four million in 2009.

DECC does not have a UK-wide projection for fuel poverty in 2012. However, these more historic figures show Northern Ireland was the most fuel poor part of the UK, at an estimated 44% of households.

In Scotland, 28% of the population were fuel poor, Wales was at 26%, and England stood at 16%.

Projections for England indicate there are likely to be around 3.5 million fuel poor households in 2011 and 3.9 million in 2012.

Since then, there have been modest cuts in prices at the start of this year.

A number of energy suppliers have hinted that prices will rise this winter, owing to increasing wholesale costs.

This would place more pressure on households having difficulty paying these bills.

“It is a major concern that so many people are struggling to afford their energy bills”

“Millions of families, older people and disabled people, living on low incomes, will be facing tough daily decisions on what essentials they cut back on to make ends meet.

“Current Government plans are not sufficient to tackle the scale of this problem.”