{"id":4281,"date":"2026-05-27T07:02:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T07:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/?p=4281"},"modified":"2026-05-27T07:02:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T07:02:35","slug":"households-hit-by-rising-energy-bills-as-iran-war-bites-daily-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/?p=4281","title":{"rendered":"Households hit by rising energy bills as Iran war bites \u2013 Daily Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Gas-bill-1.jpg\" alt=\"Gas bill\" class=\"wp-image-139512 lazyload\"\/><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1632\" height=\"1224\" src=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Gas-bill-1.jpg\" alt=\"Gas bill\" class=\"wp-image-139512 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Gas-bill-1.jpg 1632w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Gas-bill-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Gas-bill-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Gas-bill-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Gas-bill-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Gas-bill-1-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1632px) 100vw, 1632px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Households will pay more from July (pic: DB Media Services)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Household energy prices will rise by 13% or an average of \u00a3221 a year in July as the Iran war has forced up wholesale costs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Regulator Ofgem, announcing its latest price cap, says the average annual bill will be \u00a31,862.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Energy costs could rise again in October if the Strait of Hormuz shipping route continues to be blocked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The jump will equate to a rise of \u00a318 a month for the average household using both electricity and gas, with households seeing an increase of 24% on their gas bills and 5% on their electricity bills.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The energy cap covers millions of households in England, Wales and Scotland. Regulation and bills are different in Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The new price cap is \u00a3724 more than the amount households were being charged before the energy crisis hit in the autumn of 2021, an increase of 64%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026 more follows<\/p>\n<p><!-- Simple Share Buttons Adder (8.5.5) simplesharebuttons.com -->           \t            <\/div>\n<p><script>\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n{if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\nif(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\nn.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,'script',\n'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n fbq('init', '1192059580980274'); \nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script>#Households #hit #rising #energy #bills #Iran #war #bites #Daily #Business<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Households will pay more from July (pic: DB Media Services) Household energy prices will rise by 13% or an average of \u00a3221 a year in July as the Iran war&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[245],"tags":[6648,5303,283,282,926,6645,617,6647,445,6646,165,446],"class_list":["post-4281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-stories","tag-bills","tag-bites","tag-business","tag-daily","tag-energy","tag-energy-bills","tag-hit","tag-households","tag-iran","tag-ofgem","tag-rising","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}