{"id":7273,"date":"2026-05-27T07:03:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T07:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=7273"},"modified":"2026-05-27T07:03:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T07:03:36","slug":"households-hit-by-rising-energy-bills-as-iran-war-bites-daily-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=7273","title":{"rendered":"Households hit by rising energy bills as Iran war bites \u2013 Daily Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <\/p>\n<p>Households will pay more from July (pic: DB Media Services)<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Household energy prices will rise by 13% or an average of \u00a3221 a year in July as the Iran war has forced up wholesale costs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Regulator Ofgem, announcing its latest price cap, says the average annual bill will be \u00a31,862.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Energy costs could rise again in October if the Strait of Hormuz shipping route continues to be blocked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The jump will equate to a rise of \u00a318 a month for the average household using both electricity and gas, with households seeing an increase of 24% on their gas bills and 5% on their electricity bills.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The energy cap covers millions of households in England, Wales and Scotland. Regulation and bills are different in Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The new price cap is \u00a3724 more than the amount households were being charged before the energy crisis hit in the autumn of 2021, an increase of 64%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026 more follows<\/p>\n<p>           \t            #Households #hit #rising #energy #bills #Iran #war #bites #Daily #Business<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Households will pay more from July (pic: DB Media Services) Household energy prices will rise&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[1974,4009,272,306,526,5968,1251,6346,376,13172,165,684],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7273"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}