Households in Scotland have seen energy bills jump by an average £3,000

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Scots households have seen their energy bills jump by an average £3,000 over the past four years, new figures show.Research by fuel poverty groups found the average home has faced punishing extra fuel costs of around £750 more per year, every year since winter 2020-2021.

It marks a 75 per cent increase in utility bills in the last four years - a period in which Scots have faced skyrocketing energy bills and a cost of living crisis sparked by Russia’s war with Ukraine.And it comes as regulator Ofgem is expected to raise the energy price cap again for April to June, increasing bills further by around 5 per cent.

That will see the average household paying £85 more a year for their energy from April, for a total of £1,823 annually.The new analysis finds the typical home will have had to find an extra £3,033 by the end of June to pay for their energy since 2020-21.

The cost of every unit of gas is likely to increase by around 10 per cent and every unit of electricity could go up by 7 per cent when Ofgem makes its announcement today.Around 40 per cent of the time, the cost of electricity is also driven by the price of gas - due to what critics say is Britain’s “broken” energy market.