Energy: Standing Charges
(asked on 9th January 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what information his Department holds on the proportion of average household domestic gas and electricity bills which standing charges have constituted in each of the last five years.
Energy bill estimates are based on a BEIS survey of energy providers which covers around 82 per cent of the market. This data is published as part of BEIS’ Quarterly Energy Prices publication. The table below shows the proportion of average household domestic gas and electricity bills which standing charges have constituted in each of the last five years, using consumption levels of 3,800kWh/year of standard electricity and 15,000kWh/year of gas.
| Proportion of standing charge to bill | ||
| Electricity | Gas | Total |
2013 | 11.2% | 13.1% | 12.3% |
2014 | 11.6% | 12.1% | 11.9% |
2015 | 11.6% | 12.2% | 12.0% |
2016 | 11.8% | 13.3% | 12.6% |
2017p | 12.0% | 13.6% | 12.8% |
Note: p's indicate provisional data.
Source: Quarterly Energy Prices
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/annual-domestic-energy-price-statistics
Table 2.2.4 Average variable unit costs and standing charges for standard electricity
Table 2.3.4 Average variable unit costs and standing charges for gas