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Energy price caps rise as government subsidies end

Rank
Ran
30h
Updated
4d ago
Closed
Outlets
3
Regions
2
Countries
3
Languages
1

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The Independent United Kingdom · English 30 Sept, 01:45 UTC

The earliest of 3 English reports

The only language so far · English, 3 reports

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 3 after 31 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: The Independent, 30 Sept, 01:45 UTC.
  2. Second country: Japan, with The Japan Times.
  3. Second region: Asia-Pacific, with The Japan Times.
  4. Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 30 Sept, 01:45 UTC.
  5. Last article: 3 outlets.

Where it travelled

31 of 31 hours

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The 3 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

67%33%

  • Asia-Pacific 2 outlets · 2 countries · 67%
  • Europe 1 outlet · 1 country · 33%

First movers

  1. The Independent 30 Sept, 01:45 UTC
  2. The Japan Times +32m
  3. CNA +2h 26m

The figures

Coverage
3 outlets in 3 countries, across 2 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 3 outlets, 1 state-owned, 2 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Asia-Pacific 2: Japan, Singapore. Europe 1: United Kingdom. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages
English.
Timeline
Earliest article The Independent, 30 Sept 2026, 01:45 UTC. First seen 30 Sept 2026, 02:00 UTC. Last seen 1 Oct 2026, 08:45 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification
Region International. Topic Energy. Hard news Judged hard news, unsure. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score
None now: last seen more than 48 hours ago, so off the ranking. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Day by day

Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method
30 Sept 2026 348 3.73 3 3 3 3 4.0

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Started 30 Sept, 02:00 UTC · Updated 1 Oct, 08:45 UTC · Final figures at midnight UTC

Covered by 3 outlets

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Asia-Pacific 2 outlets

  • CNA Singapore 30 Sept, 04:11 UTC
    Lower electricity and gas household tariffs from October to December
  • The Japan Times Japan 30 Sept, 02:17 UTC
    Energy prices to hit record highs with end of government subsidy next month

Europe 1 outlet

  • The Independent United Kingdom 1 Oct, 08:45 UTC
    Energy price cap rise of 4% takes effect amid warnings of 16% new year increase
    +6 more articlesHide 6 more articles
    • Household energy bills to jump by £60 today ahead of biggest rise for four years 1 Oct, 07:26 UTC
    • Energy price cap rise of 4% takes effect amid warnings of 16% New Year increase 30 Sept, 23:02 UTC
    • Martin Lewis explains how to avoid the Ofgem energy price cap hike 30 Sept, 09:43 UTC
    • Ofgem energy price cap hike to hit UK from Thursday. Here’s what you need to do 30 Sept, 09:25 UTC
    • Ofgem energy price cap hike to hit four million households from Thursday 30 Sept, 08:25 UTC
    • Ofgem energy price cap hike set to take effect on household bills 30 Sept, 01:45 UTC
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