ADE Hails Energy Price Drop as Proof Clean Energy Transition Slashes Bills 

The announcement of the 7% energy price cap fall, slashing average bills to £1,720, offers breathing room for households, but the ADE warns it’s a fragile victory built on volatile gas markets and the permanent solution is doubling down on net zero to cut bills for good.

While households welcome relief, one of the UK’s largest energy trade body warns that bills remain artificially high due to systemic waste and outdated rules favouring fossil fuels over families. 

Caroline Bragg, CEO of ADE, said: “This price drop is net zero in action. Every wind turbine and solar farm is driving down costs.

But we’re still burning money while heat from factories, data centres and transport vanishes into thin air. Harnessing that wasted energy to warm homes, paying families – not gas giants – to use power smartly, that’s how we lock in permanently lower bills.

The Government must choose; prop up the old system or back a revolution that cuts bills, creates jobs and secures our energy future.” 

Flexibility reforms could save households £375 a year by 2040 by rewarding consumers who shift energy use, not fossil fuel suppliers.

Meanwhile harnessing waste heat could unlock £100 billion for communities by capturing lost energy from buildings, factories and transport to replace gas boilers. 

With analysts warning prices won’t fall substantially without radical action, ADE demands the Government’s Warm Homes Plan and Clean Power 2030 Action Plan put consumers at the heart of the energy system. Anything less leaves families hostage to volatile global markets.