Your article "Your bills could be £275 more this year" (The Argus, March 15) makes mention of increases in fuel bills but only talks about increases from two suppliers - EDF Energy and British Gas.

We would like to make it clear that all domestic energy suppliers have increased their prices in recent months, owing to increases in wholesale costs for both gas and electricity.

While it has been necessary to reflect these increases in prices to consumers, it should be noted that both gas and electricity prices are still lower in real terms than before competition began in the mid-nineties.

In real terms, our gas prices are 14 per cent lower than ten years ago.

British Gas electricity prices are already eight per cent lower than EDF's in Sussex but we have also just announced a price cap offer for our domestic electricity customers.

We guarantee our electricity prices will not increase for the next two years for any domestic customer who registers for the cap by May 31, 2004.

While I appreciate your article covered all the things which are increasing in price, it is not fair to single out two energy companies when the increases are industry-wide.

Powergen, for instance, has just increased its Staywarm tariff, aimed at some of the more vulnerable people in society, by an average of over 7.5 per cent in the Brighton area, while nPower's electricity prices are going up by 5.8 per cent next month.

-Allan Wood, public relations manager, British Gas