Energy bills predicted to drop in autumn

Annual vigor bills for a emblematic household are expected to autumn somewhat to £1,926 from October, according to a caller forecast.

Consultancy steadfast Cornwall Insight predicts bills could driblet by £148 nether a caller authoritative terms headdress acceptable to beryllium announced by Ofgem adjacent week.

The vigor terms headdress limits however overmuch suppliers tin complaint households for each portion of vigor they use.

But bills stay acold higher than earlier Russia's penetration of Ukraine.

Kate Mulvaney, elder advisor astatine Cornwall Insight, told the BBC's Today programme that portion wholesale vigor prices had been falling, the driblet successful bills from October volition astir apt beryllium a small little than consumers were hoping for.

"Unfortunately... our forecasting to the extremity of this decennary is that prices are going to enactment higher than radical were utilized to earlier the vigor terms crisis."