Electricity prices

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    Cornwall Insight comments on its January Default Tariff Cap forecast rising to £3,000 for a typical user

    Data reported on Monday evening (20/06) from Cornwall Insight forecast that the Default Tariff Cap for Q1 2023 (Jan-Mar) will rise to £3,003 per year for a typical user, with the last quarter of 2022 Q4 (Oct-Dec) predicted to be £2,980. The rise means an average household will pay just...

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    Price cap predicted to rise by over £100/year

    The latest forecast from Cornwall Insight indicates that the default tariff price cap will increase by more than £100 for the Winter 2021-22 cap to around £1,250 per year for a typical dual fuel direct debit customer – from its current level of £1,138.  Dr. Craig Lowrey, Senior Consultant at...

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    Brexit impacts | Divergent electricity prices

    Since the start of the year, as a result of Brexit, Great Britain's (GB's) internal and cross-border trading has been temporarily decoupled from European power exchanges. This is expected to result in less efficient trades; interconnector flows and divergent electricity prices between power exchanges. Research from Cornwall Insight examining the...

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    Middle East tensions have the potential to increase energy bills

    The risk of direct military conflict between the US and Iran following missile strikes by US forces on Iranian General Qasem Soleimani in Baghdad on 3rd January has been reflected in the oil market, given the potential disruption to supplies from the region. Such volatility is set to reverberate across...