Nearly six million customers are to be hit with energy price rises today as EDF becomes the latest to roll out its increases of 15.4pc in the cost of gas and a 4.5pc in electricity.

The energy giant is the last to put up prices, following moves by British Gas, EDF Energy, E. ON, npower, Scottish Power and SSE, which takes the typical household energy bill up from £1,132 to £1,293 – an increase of £161. The increase brings to an end a year of misery for consumers where energy bills rocketed by 21pc or £224 on average. Energy customers in some of the poorer parts of the UK are paying more for their domestic fuel than those in the more....Read more here---> Energy price to hit six million households - Telegraph