7 Boring But Brilliant Ways To Keep Energy Bills Down This Winter

It’s time to fiddle with your boiler settings and seal up any draughty gaps.

Parents editor at HuffPost UK

After one of the warmest Septembers on record, which saw temperatures rise to an unseasonable 28.1°C on 29 September, the Met Office has said cooler weather is on the horizon.

Yet long-term forecasts looking ahead to the end of October into November suggest that, overall, temperatures will probably remain above average.

The good news is you might be able to avoid switching the heating on for a few days or even weeks.

The bad news is the Energy Price Cap, which controls what we pay for energy when we’re on variable tarriffs, rose by 3.6% at the start of this month and is predicted to rise even more come January 2027.

Per British Gas, the average two- to three-person household is paying about £1,723 per year for gas and electricity, which rises to £2,424 for households with four to five people.

Here, Octopus Energy’s experts........

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