scottish power increase prices

Scottish Power have followed British Gas, N Power and EDF by announcing an increase to their Gas and Electricity. Gas bills will rise by around 15% on average and Electricity by 14 the company said.

 Scottish Power which has 5.2 million customers blamed higher wholesale gas prices. Customers on dual fuel faced an 14.8% increase, however, 1.2 million customers on fixed price deals will not see an increase.

Rivals British Gas - the UK’s biggest power provider - increased gas and electricity prices by 15% in January.

The same month, Npower raised its electricity prices by 12.7% and gas by 17.2% and EDF Energy also put up its electricity tariffs by 7.9% and gas bills by 12.9%..

EON are now expected to follow suit, meanwhile, Southern and Scottish Energy have promised not to follow until the end of next month.