Green taxes on energy bills will more than double by the end of the decade, despite a promise by David Cameron to “roll back” the charges, according to one of Britain’s biggest suppliers.
Tariffs to fund wind turbines and solar panels will drive the average gas and electricity bill towards £1,500 a year by 2020, npower says.
The claim by the German-owned company raises the prospect of another inflation-busting price rise after the next election, and threatens to break the uneasy truce agreed between the Government and the energy industry.
The warning came yesterday after MPs accused energy bosses of “utter complacency” over last month’s storms, which left hundreds of thousands of homes without power over Christmas. The energy networks had displayed an astonishing neglect