FG Energy Watch

Prime Minister Liz Truss must immediately introduce a cap to business energy costs and peg any increases against a global average to hold input costs in check and prevent businesses folding, a new report has said.

Families living in fuel poverty in rural areas will be left 450 poorer than urban ones by October’s energy price rise

Families living in fuel poverty in rural areas will be left 450 poorer than urban ones by Octobers energy price rise

The Prime Minister has announced that energy prices will be capped for businesses.

Farm shops have begun closing their doors and many more are facing an uncertain future as soaring energy costs threaten to hit £100,000 a year.

Traditionally, the summer months are known in journalistic circles as ‘silly season’.

Soaring energy costs are forcing some farmers to consider cutting production, posing a food security risk.

Farm-based solar projects will be an important part of the energy mix going forward but ’mega’ arrays of ground mounted panels will continue to face opposition, the NFU has said.