is available for households. the figure of £2500 has been thrown around quite a lot this week, but that is the amount you will pay if you consume the average amount of energy over the course of a year. of course, a lot of people don t. the cap is on the price charged per unit of electricity, per unit of gas, and the standing charge, as well. and that means if you use more, you pay more. if you use less, you pay less. but the average is around the £2,500 per year point. just remind us, how long is this cap in place for and what other sources of government help are there? the cap is in place for two years from today. in the first year, 2022 23, there will be a £400 discount applied to everybody s electricity bills. that will come off their electricity bills over the next six months. £66 for a couple of months, then £67 will come off each month.
supplier, but make sure you are not being charged a higher rate for energy you have already used. later on ou energy you have already used. later on you are energy you have already used. later on you are doing energy you have already used. later on you are doing a energy you have already used. later on you are doing a breakdown of what it looks like on your bill because we are not necessarily used to looking at the detail. we might look at the number but maybe not that the unit price issue. taste at the number but maybe not that the unit price issue. unit price issue. we were talking in the office and unit price issue. we were talking in the office and realising unit price issue. we were talking in the office and realising how - the office and realising how different bills are between people and a lot of people didn t realise exactly why they were paying what they were paying. it is either the headline figure that you owe, and you don t necessarily realise what you don t nec
there will also be a figure that shows the monthly payment to be taken from your account. here, we re saying that s £400. the next thing to know when you look at your bill is how your energy company has worked it out. do they really know how much you re using? if your bill is estimated, you may need to provide a meter reading. now, when we talk about the price cap, that s a cap on the amount you pay per unit of energy, not a limit on your total bill. so if you use more, your bill will be higher. that s why the unit rate is important. it tells you how much you re paying for each bit of energy you use. on our imaginary bill, we can see the person has been paying a unit rate of 27p per kilowatt hour, and then they re also paying the standing charge here at 40p per day. it s a fee to stay connected to the network. think of it like line rental, but for your energy. from october, the government s
huge disappointment. we were already paying less than the capped price at the moment, so this is no help to us whatsoever. what they haven t addressed is the money we would have to spend on a standing charge and that the gas companies are charging us. i get the feeling this is more future proofing rather than helping us right now. other businesses have welcomed the announcement. lucy runs a bakery in birmingham. i think it s definitely i taken the pressure off. the last couple of weeks, well, - the last couple of months have been incredibly worrying, things like, should i put the oven or batch things up, and i ve even been keeping the lights off, - so it has come as a relief but i am concerned it s. a bit late for a lot of small- businesses within the community. hotels need to be cleaned, heated, air conditioned and staffed 2a hours a day. from the lifts to the lights,
is that the major benefits will go to households that have higher energy use, and many of those hassles are already struggling and use very little energy, and will not be seeing a commensurate benefit. that is particularly true of prepayment metre customers, who regularly self disconnect, when they cannot afford to top up their energy and stop living with energy in the home. we would like to see a lower rate for those households, awesome addressing of the standing charge, because they need to pay the standing charges before they access any use of energy. the final observation on the rumours we are hearing at the moment is that there is a real risk that households in northern ireland could be left out in the cold. there is considerable concern given that they are still waiting for much of the package of support that have been announced by