{"id":80027,"date":"2025-10-01T07:25:57","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T07:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=80027"},"modified":"2025-10-01T07:25:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T07:25:57","slug":"britain-paying-highest-electricity-prices-in-the-world-for-second-year-running","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/10\/01\/britain-paying-highest-electricity-prices-in-the-world-for-second-year-running\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain paying highest electricity prices in the world for second year running"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1NB461.img?w=534&amp;h=334&amp;m=6&amp;x=859&amp;y=289&amp;s=281&amp;d=281\" alt=\"Ed Miliband, the Energy Secretary, has stressed that net zero is not to blame for soaring prices - Kin Cheung\/Pool via REUTERS\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ed Miliband\u2019s net zero targets are facing fresh scrutiny after Britain was found to be paying the\u00a0<a class=\"ck-custom-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/business\/2024\/09\/26\/britain-burdened-most-expensive-electricity-prices-in-world\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">highest electricity prices in the developed world<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/money\/other\/britain-paying-highest-electricity-prices-in-the-world-for-second-year-running\/ar-AA1NB46d?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=68dcce972af943a99ec48d100f17f019&amp;ei=22\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Ed Miliband\u2019s net zero targets are facing fresh scrutiny after Britain was found to be paying the\u00a0highest electricity prices in the developed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-80027","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/energy-bill.webp","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80028,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80027\/revisions\/80028"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}