The organizer says that the richer families in the UK can pay more for electricity

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The head of the energy organizer said that British families may face different electricity rates based on their income, as the Supervisory Authority seeks to ensure the participation of the transition to the cleaner energy fairly.

Jonathan Braillet, the Office CEO, said on Tuesday that the organizer will launch a review this summer on how to impose fees on the electricity network and other costs, including some renewable energy subsidies on the bills of living families.

“During the next few years, we expect a decrease in variable costs, but the percentage of fixed costs will rise, which, if not verified, can exacerbate the inequality that we see today,” Perley said.

“Therefore, in the summer, we launch a wide range of how to better allocate costs within the power system from the first principles. We will look at the best way to exchange costs, including the incentives they put on consumers.”

Speaking at the OffGem event, which was attended by the leaders of the energy industry, Brearley emphasized that the review was in an exploratory stage and any decision that was far away.

“We want to ask the question at least – whether we can customize the costs more or not be more gradual,” he said, noting that any attempt to do something related to income “will be a logistical challenge.

His comments come at a time when the industry and the government are struggling with the challenge of maintaining energy bills for consumers with the distribution of the initial costs to stay away from fossil fuels.

Home energy arrears reached the highest level in about 3 billion pounds at the end of last year, according to Offem.

This is partially related to the energy crisis 2021-2022, when consumers’ bills rise due to the disruption of the gas market, as the economies were reopened after the roaming epidemic and after Russia’s full invasion of Ukraine.

In the period before the general elections last year, the Labor Party promised to reduce the annual home energy bills by 300 pounds by 2030, although critics are wondering if possible.

UK energy ceiling on bills rose from 1568 pounds annually in July 2024, when the Labor Party won the elections, to 1849 pounds this month.

Braili called for a more “permanent and strategic” approach in the ability to withstand energy costs.

The network costs are currently placed in permanent fees, a fixed amount that families pay every day regardless of the amount of energy they use.

But OffGem is concerned about the risk of the rise in permanent fees in the future, as the network costs rise as a result of the recovery of the infrastructure costs the costs of the huge investments needed to transport electricity from wind and solar farms to homes and companies.

Perley said: “What (the review) means is to look at the bill and say, are there ways through which we can attach the price that customers pay for fixed costs of income.”

OffGem consults separate proposals to require energy companies to submit some customs tariffs with low or non -existent fees, after customer complaints that these fees are unfair.

The government is also under pressure to move environmental fees completely from electricity bills. They can move to gas bills, or in public taxes.