E.ON and Scottish & Southern raise power prices by 30%

Robin Pagnamenta and Siobhan Kennedy More than ten million British households were dealt a fresh blow to their finances yesterday as E.ON and Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) became the latest power companies to raise gas and electricity bills by as much as 29 per cent. E.ON, which has 5.5 million customers in the UK, announced that it would increase prices by 16 per cent for electricity and 26 per cent for... [read full story]