Sentence examples for on consumer bills from inspiring English sources
Extra costs should not be put on consumer bills, but revenue from carbon taxes levied on generators for the pollution they created should be used to provide long-term funding for energy efficiency, the campaign group said.
They're leading to increases on consumer bills, and that's an issue.
The UK's big six energy companies have already begun deploying a powerful and multi-pronged lobbying operation against Ed Miliband's pledge of a 20-month freeze on consumer bills, according to insiders.
"The principle that Ed Miliband is articulating is much more damaging and goes beyond the question of how we deal with the big six [energy companies] specifically and their impact on consumer bills.
Huup de Rooijen, head of offshore wind at The Crown Estate, conceded that offshore wind was "a lot more expensive" but claimed that its effects on consumer bills were exaggerated and that the cost of the technology is decreasing.
Margaret Hodge, Labour MP and chair of the committee, said: "No one in government is taking responsibility for assessing the overall impact of this investment on consumer bills and whether consumers will be able to afford to pay.
Under the Code of practice on consumer billing, customers' liability for such charges is capped at £100 provided the phone is reported lost or stolen within 24 hours.
"The interchange fees paid by retailers end up on consumers' bills," said Joaquín Almunia, the European Union's commissioner for competition policy.
The proposal, which Republicans oppose, includes a new charge on consumers' bills to help recover the nearly $13 billion that the state's utilities owe their power suppliers.
Ofgem referred the market to the Competition and Markets Authority because we feel competition is not bearing down fast or hard enough on consumers' bills".
The £3bn ECO scheme, whose costs are passed on to consumer bills, saved only around 30% of the carbon emissions of previous programmes, partly because of an initial focus on "harder to treat" homes which cost more to make efficient.
