warm the best way i can. under the price cap, a customer now pays £1277 a year if they use an average amount of gas and electricity. analysts expect that typical bill to rise to £1600 when a revised but as yet undecided cap starts in april. compare that with a year ago, when you could have got a deal costing just over £850 a year. as the global economy has been switched back on after the height of the pandemic, the scramble for gas has not been matched by supply, leading to an unprecedented seven fold rise in wholesale prices. producers of everything from toilet roll to steel say that will feed through to higher prices in the shops. domestic customers may be predicted from some of this volatility, but industry isn't. today, the business secretary told an energy industry conference that a renewed commitment to renewable energy generation in the uk