New analysis by Examine Boiler Quotes has used the newest statistics from the Scottish Authorities’s Power Statistics Hub to analyse electrical energy and fuel prices from each native authority throughout Scotland, to establish the areas with probably the most and least costly payments.
Their findings found that Argyll and Bute has the best vitality payments in Scotland and shall be worst affected by the 54 per cent value hike, set to hit hundreds of thousands of properties throughout the nation from Friday, April 1.
Households in Argyll and Bute pay a mean of £1,842 per yr in complete for fuel and electrical energy payments, which is £729 greater than the common vitality consumer residing in Glasgow the place mixed annual payments are £1,113.
Na Eilean Siar (Western Isles) has the second highest vitality payments out of all of the native authorities in Scotland, with vitality prospects paying a mean of £1,754 yearly.
On common, Scots are paying £1,362 in complete for his or her annual vitality payments.
This contains:
- Fuel - £576
- Electrical energy - £785
Commenting on the findings, a spokesperson for Examine Boiler Quotes stated: “Power payments are already sky-high and with payments hovering by a predicted £700 within the subsequent few days, it's regarding to see the stark regional variations in vitality payments throughout Scotland.
“In some areas, residents are paying over £700 a yr on extra on vitality than the most cost effective locations, and it appears to be the extra rural and distant areas equivalent to Eilean Siar and Argyll and Bute that are struggling most. It's these properties that are least vitality environment friendly that can endure probably the most from rising payments, as escaping warmth will imply that your heating system works tougher to compensate for the dearth of heat, costing you extra.”
The spokesperson added: “The federal government is advocating warmth pumps as an answer to hovering vitality payments, however these won't be efficient with out correct ground insulation - which 65 per cent of properties within the UK at present lack. Whereas households can use some hacks to insulate their properties higher, for instance, shopping for cheap pipe insulation from a DIY retailer, except one thing severe is completed in regards to the vitality disaster, we'll see many extra households pushed into poverty.”
Costliest vitality payments in Scotland
Complete value exhibits mixed fuel and electrical energy costs per yr for the common consumer.
- Argyll & Bute - £1,1842.06
- Eilean Siar (Western Isles) - £1,754.80
- Highland - £1,711.91
- Aberdeenshire - £1,580.49
- Perth and Kinross - £1,557.89
- East Renfrewshire - £1,459.41
- Stirling - £1,455.59
- Moray - £1,431.44
- Angus - £1,422.56
- Dumfries and Galloway: £1,413.32
- Scottish Borders - £1,410.01
- East Dunbartonshire - £1,406.96
- South Lanarkshire - £1,336.99
- East Lothian - £1,333.07
- South Ayrshire - £1,308.58
- Dundee Metropolis - £1,295.87
- Falkirk - £1,277.13
- West Lothian - £1,268.85
- Fife - £1,266.35
- Aberdeen Metropolis - £1,266.07
- North Ayrshire - £1,254.28
- Midlothian - £1,241.35
- North Lanarkshire - £1,240.60
- Inverclyde - £1,238.02
- Clackmannanshire - £1,231.15
- East Ayrshire - £1,225.14
- Edinburgh - £1,219.20
- Renfrewshire - £1,180.34
- West Dunbartonshire - £1,127.64
- Glasgow Metropolis - £1,113.39
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