{"id":520782,"date":"2022-09-09T12:40:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-09T07:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=520782"},"modified":"2022-09-09T12:40:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T07:10:00","slug":"uk-government-to-cap-domestic-energy-prices-liz-truss-announces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/uk-government-to-cap-domestic-energy-prices-liz-truss-announces\/","title":{"rendered":"UK government to cap domestic energy prices, Liz Truss announces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British Prime Minister Liz Truss said Thursday that her government will cap domestic energy prices for homes and businesses to ease a cost-of-living crisis that has left people and businesses across the UK facing a bleak winter.<\/p>\n<p>Truss told lawmakers in Parliament that the two-year energy price guarantee means average household bills will be no more than 2,500 pounds ( 2,872) a year for heating and electricity.<\/p>\n<p>Bills had been due to rise to 3,500 pounds ( 4,000) pounds a year from October, triple the cost of a year ago. Bills are skyrocketing because of Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine and the economic aftershocks of COVID-19 and Brexit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British Prime Minister Liz Truss said Thursday that her government will cap domestic energy prices for homes and businesses to ease a cost-of-living crisis that has left people and businesses across the UK facing a bleak winter. Truss told lawmakers in Parliament that the two-year energy price guarantee means average household bills will be no more than 2,500 pounds ( 2,872) a year for heating and electricity. Bills had been due to rise to 3,500 pounds ( 4,000) pounds a year from October, triple the cost of a year ago. Bills are skyrocketing because of Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,245,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-520782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}