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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Anna Tims and Miles Brignall

Energy bills: ‘I got a green deal, so why am I paying eye-watering sums?’

View looking towards Sherringham Shoal windfarm, with Cley Marshes NWT reserve in the foreground
Customers wonder why electricity prices have gone up so much given that the cost of operating a wind turbine or solar farm has only risen marginally. Photograph: Nature Picture Library/Alamy

Households on green energy tariffs who assumed they would be unaffected by soaring gas prices have been shocked to be told their electricity bills are rising, despite them being signed up to a renewable supply.

Suzanne Taylor has been told that her fixed daytime tariff with the renewable energy supplier So will double from 16p to 32p a unit if she renews it this month. “So is blaming the current energy crisis,” she says. “Its website says that 100% of its electricity is supplied from renewable sources so why would it be affected by gas prices?”

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