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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Henry Saker-Clark

Electricity prices set to jump 20% within five years, energy firm warns

Electricity prices are on track to jump by a fifth over the next four or five years, according to the UK’s biggest energy supplier.

Octopus Energy’s Rachel Fletcher told MPs that the Government should urgently consider changing how wholesale gas prices drive changes in UK energy costs in order to help British households.

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