Electricity prices...

[sandyRoe]

Power NI has announced that it will cut prices by 14% in October. The Scottish company, SSE, has just announced that it's to increase prices by 9%. How can one company drop prices while another raises them?

[emmie]

have no idea, but i reckon they are all ripping their customers off, and we are letting them.

[WELSHYORKIE]

Current prices are shocking

[beejay1124]

good to see it too sandy

[commoner]

Lol @WY....nice one <G>

[factor-fiction]

It also depends on what each company's charges were before the planned changes

[New Judge]

"...they are all ripping their customers off, and we are letting them."

So what do you suggest we do, em? Go on strike? Refuse to use any gas or electricity for a day? (That'll teach them!). Take our custom elsewhere?

[factor-fiction]

A lot of people complain about the charges but more people need to do something about it by shopping around and switching supplier. The numbers who change are surprisingly low yet it's a fairly straightforward process.
The regulator also needs to speed up its review of practices and ensuring it is easier to compare tariffs. World energy prices are increasing and will continue to do so,

[cazzz1975]

its probably habit, in the past there was not a wealth of competitors supplying gas and electricity so people didn't shop around. now we have to treat it a bit like car insurance and continually be on the move

[whiskeryron]

// Current prices are shocking //
Nice one Yorkie.

WR.

[Duncer]

If you are convinved that it is truly unfair then I can arrange for you to have my Scottish Power bill and I will take your NIE one off your hands.

[emmie]

no one complains, no one says anything, that is what i meant. I have no idea what one can do, but like a lot of things we seem to just accept it. Same way we do when fares go up, lot's of hurrumphing but little else.

[Duncer]

What exactly are our choices em? They are all as bad as each other so switching achieves little.

[jake-the-peg]

I suggest we denationalise them

Then competition in the market place will force down prices!


....Oh

[Duncer]

If I trusted either party I might suggest renationalising them.

[Duncer]

Observing the cartel whereby six major companies control practically 99% of the output.

[Duncer]

Perhaps a trip to the hospital is in order to get a new ar$ehole transplanted, then they can shaft me up that one too?