Npower

Energy Secretary Ed Davey wants the energy regulator to look into the profits the big six energy companies make on gas bills.

Prices will fall for millions of Npower customers following new Government measures to curb the cost of energy bills – but any savings will only soften the blow from winter price hikes.

Millions of Scottish Power and Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) customers will see their bills fall, after Government moves to cut the cost of energy tariffs – but the savings will just trim both firms' winter price hikes, so the net result is that prices are still up.

Npower will pay £3.5 million to vulnerable customers after regulator Ofgem found it had mis-sold energy contracts to customers on doorsteps and by phone.

E.on is to hike energy prices by an average of 3.7% from 18 January, becoming the last of the big six power suppliers to announce an increase in its charges.

Npower has apologised and promised to pay £1 million to vulnerable households after complaints about poor service rocketed.

Households are to be spared the full force of recent bill hikes after power firms pledged to pass on savings from a Government shake-up of energy levies.

Hundreds of thousands of Npower customers will find themselves moved to a new energy supplier next year after it agreed to sell their accounts to Utility Warehouse.

2.4 million EDF customers will be hit with gas and electricity price hikes of 3.9% from 3 January, after it became the fifth of the big six energy firms to announce a rise.

Most people aged over 61 are entitled to up to £300 from the Government to help cover the cost of energy bills this winter.