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Big Energy Saving Week: helping to cut your energy bills

John Fitzsimons
by Lovemoney Staff John Fitzsimons on 22 October 2012  |  Comments 1 comment

To mark Big Energy Saving Week, each day this week we'll have an article looking at ways to cut how much you spend on your energy bills.

Big Energy Saving Week: helping to cut your energy bills

From today until the 27th October is Big Energy Saving Week, a slightly clumsily named campaign week from Citizens Advice.

As the name suggests, the aim of the campaign is to help people spend less on their energy bills.All week Citizens Advice is running events up and down the country which will feature information and advice on cutting your energy bills.

The timing is very appropriate, as four of the big six energy providers have announced price rises in recent weeks, as we explained in What can you do about rising energy prices?

To coincide with the campaign, each day we'll be running at least one article covering an energy topic and looking at ways you can potentially save on your energy spending. We also plan to put together a piece rounding up our readers' best energy-saving tips, so be sure to share them in this question on our Q&A section.

More on energy:

The Green Deal explained

What can you do about rising energy prices?

David Cameron: we'll force energy companies to offer lowest tariffs

How to get free cavity wall and loft insulation

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  • camanderm
    Love rating 50
    camanderm said

    Here we go again. The reasons energy prices are so high are three-fold:

    1) Huge extra costs forced on the consumer by the renewable obligation certificate subsidies and feed in tariff subsidies for worthless intermittent 20% capacity factor wind and pathetic solar pv feed-in at many times market price of electricity.

    2) The Governments (all to date, liblabcon) failing to concentrate on best value for money regulation for the energy consumer and being diverted by the ideology of 1) above.

    3) Failing to expedite fracking for shale gas although I think our new Environment Secretary, Owen Paterson may be doing just that now (better late than never). People have seen enormous reductions in gas and electricity prices in the USA since shale gas was exploited. Same needed here and keep the tax down Chancellor Osborn.

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