I heard that there were something like 11000 tariffs at one point. How on earth is anyone apart from the comparison sites able to analyse the deals available? It might help if they banned standing charges which are a throwback to nationalised ownership. It makes it harder to compare all the different deals with all the different standing charges.


They should impose maximum fines. Once or twice and then it would get the energy companies to play straight.

1. high
2. higher
3. highest
4. you can not afford it

in the last 5 years many have reduced there energy consumption by about 25%
energy companies have raised prices by about 28% over the same period

privatisation and competition was going too ... answers on a post card please ...

Since 1997 when my electricity bill was £20 a month it is now £35 a month. The increase is still manageable for me. Though others must be struggling. This last month I had problems and switched twice this month, when the cheapest deal I could get with my current supplier was £42 a month and the cheapest elsewhere was £40. Then my original supplier came back with an offer that was 3% lower than what I was on before so my bills will be around £34.06 a month.

I don't mind standing charges as night costs seem to be less if you use more.
What they need to do is out your total energy use for the last year on every bill. That's the best number to plug into comparison sites to find the best deals.

In 2012, £20.00 from 1997 is worth



£30.80 using the retail price index

So in real terms your electricity bill , using your soon to be tarrrif has only gone up £3.26 over the RPI, over16 years.

I think that my bills are not that bad considering. I do have a computer on 24/7 but have replaced all my lights with LED so if every light is on I still only use 88 watts. Though even in 1997 I was all low energy bulbs even back then.



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I object to subsidising inefficient wind farms with my high bills.

I don't. Over time oil prices should rise as the cheap sources gradually disappear. Wind farms and solar should be relatively consistent. So over time they will become the cheapest form of energy production. Though the problem is who pays for that in the mean time. If we wait till oil prices are high enough that there is no need to subsidise renewables then things could be very different and our energy supplies would be much more unstable. It also encourages us to be more energy efficient which will become essential as we start to become an oil importer again.

I don't object so much to solar. It works even on cloudy days, but wind power is a costly unreliable waste of money.

Together they could cover a large share of our demand. We could still need Thorium reactors to cover our base load.

I'd like to see thorium reactors.