a month ago, the energy price cap, the default tariff that you move - onto when your fix ends or if you've never switched, was at £1,138 - per year for someone with typical bills. - now that price cap is {1.277 peryear, up 12%, 13%, - for people on prepay. but here's the real shocker. this is all on the back of wholesale 965 prices going up. _ which of course remember feed into electricity prices too, - because so much of the uk's. electricity is generated by gas. the price cap was £1,138 per year on typical bills, j it's now £1,277 per year. from the 1st of april next year, that price cap is based - on the wholesale ratesl from august to january. so we are in that assessment period and the current estimate is, - on the 1st of april, _ the price cap will rise to £1,660, a 30% rise in the price cap.