Rejected petition: Stop Charging People Just for Being Connected
Rejected on
We call on UK government to end daily standing charges on gas and electricity bills and replace them with a fairer, fully transparent pricing system.
Standing charges force households to pay every day just for being connected, even when they use very little energy or are trying to cut costs.
This hits low-income households, low-use homes, empty properties, and people trying to save energy the hardest.
If energy companies say these costs are real, then they should be shown clearly in the unit price or disclosed in a way that is honest, simple, and easy for consumers to understand. The current system hides fixed costs in a daily fee that many people see as unfair and misleading.
We are asking Parliament and DESNZ to require Ofgem to remove standing charges.
Why was this petition rejected?
There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.
We already have a petition open which we think is very similar to yours. You may wish to sign it:
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/751357
We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.