Gas and electricity prices: How are they calculated?  Gas flame
Gas prices are on the rise in December for some consumers
Energy prices are going up. Both British Gas and Scottish and
Southern Energy (SSE) are putting up gas tariffs in December,
and other major energy providers may follow suit soon.  The
companies have blamed a 25% increase in wholesale costs this
year. But have wholesale prices gone up? And how does the
wholesale price relate to the figure that appears on your energy
bill?  Is blaming the wholesale price justified?  Wholesale
prices  With other costs to supply energy relatively fixed and
constituting a small part of your overall energy bill, energy
suppliers almost always cite wholesale prices as the reason
behind a change in their tariffs.  But at any one time there are
many different wholesale prices, so to say they have gone up by
25% is meaningless. All of these wholesale prices have in fact
gone up over the period quoted by SSE and British Gas.  But
anyone who knows anything about the