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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Jillian Ambrose

FOUND: Ministers braced for showdown over postcode pricing in energy market shake up - What They Never Told You

Ed Miliband heading to a cabinet meeting.
Ed Miliband is weighing up plans that could reshape how electricity is priced across Britain. Photograph: Tayfun Salcı/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock

Britain’s most senior government ministers could soon be drawn into a deepening row over plans to charge some households higher electricity bills than others, as Ed Miliband prepares to decide on sweeping energy reforms.

The energy secretary is understood to be close to making a decision on whether to move ahead with proposals to replace the country’s single electricity market with several market zones.

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