Bills Down Today.
Up Again In July.
Happy April Fools.
Today your energy bill went down. By £117 a year. That is about £10 a month. The headlines are calling it good news. It is good news. But there is a catch.
*July 2026 is a Cornwall Insight forecast. Ofgem confirms 27 May.
✅ Bills actually went down today?
Yes. The price cap dropped 7% on 1 April 2026.
A typical home now pays £1,641 a year for gas and electricity. That is £117 less than January.
Most of the saving came from the government removing green levies from bills and funding them through general taxation instead.
The saving is real. Just keep it in perspective.
😬 So what is the catch?
July is coming.
The July cap is forecast at £1,972. That is £331 more than today. In a single quarter.
It would wipe out every penny of today's saving and add another £214 on top. Bills would be back above where they were in January.
After three months of everyone thinking things were getting better.
Bills are still nearly double what they were before the energy crisis.
📌 Why is it called a cap if it keeps moving?
The price cap does not cap your total bill. It caps the rate you pay per unit of gas and electricity.
And that rate changes every three months based on what is happening in the wholesale energy market right now. Which means July's number is largely already baked in by what gas costs today.
Ofgem confirms the July figure on 27 May. But markets are pricing it in already.
July cap
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Based on a home with an EV charger and smart thermostat. Results vary.
💡 What can you actually do about it?
You cannot control what the cap does. But you can earn money back from the grid.
The National Grid pays households to cut back during peak hours. It is called Demand Flexibility. Most people have never heard of it.
FlexMyPower connects your home to those payments. No switching supplier. No changing tariff. Cash every month.
A typical home with an EV and a heat pump earns £415 to £935 a year. Enough to turn July from a shock into something you can absorb.
This is not an April Fools. The cap really did go down today. July really is forecast to go back up. And the grid really does pay you cash to cut back. Join the waitlist. It takes 30 seconds.