Electricity and gas: You choose!
BackFrom July 1st 2007, it will be possible for household customers throughout the European Union to choose their electricity and gas suppliers.
In exercising this choice, which is not an obligation, consumers are boosting competition between energy suppliers --and that has to be to their advantage.
To be able to make really informed choices, customers need to have access to detailed and open information. This right to information, along with other fundamental rights which guarantee consumer protection, will be included in a future European Charter on the Rights of Energy Consumers.
This video shows the situation in Great Britain where the electricity and gas markets have been opened up to competition for domestic consumers for several years now and in the Wallonia Region of Belgium where liberalisation was introduced on January 1st 2007.
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Channel: News & Politics
Uploaded: July 2, 2007 at 10:02 am
Author: eutube
Length: 00:09:41
Rating: 4.17
Views: 77437
Tags: eutube Electricity Gas Competition Domestic Consumers Energy European Commission
Video Comments:
andygavin (December 3, 2008 at 5:42 am)
"The only way to get lower prices is to encourage competition" Nonsense, what about regulation? Simply opening a market does not necessarily drive down prices. Providers move as a group, like with recent prices. Market prices are also effected by speculative investment too. Markets don't prevent price fixing and need to be regulated. It is unclear to me whether good regulation of few operators is preferable.
Thetranslatorguy (October 23, 2008 at 4:38 pm)
The answer to what elctricity is is that there is NO answer, since NOBODY knows what electricity even is EXACTLY... not scientist, engineers, electricians,etc......
haardkaar (September 8, 2008 at 3:18 pm)
This isn't something EU should care about. It's up to citizens in each country to decide. EU is not democratic by forcing this on us to comply to this. This viedo clip is nothing more than propaganda. The reality is completely different. We got the right to choose who's going to rip us off. We didn't get the right to choose a reliable and cheap electricity market.
atotzisbezet (September 7, 2008 at 2:30 pm)
i'm dutch and can tell you that it aint getting cheaper... its the other way around... its so fucking expensive nowadays people cant pay their gas bills anymore.
AliasUndercover (August 30, 2008 at 3:20 am)
Oh yes, let the market set the price like it did in California. I'm sure $10,000 a kilowatt hour isn't too expensive for you guys.
cultintal (August 5, 2008 at 12:03 pm)
I don't think a liberalised market would make energy cheaper in the long run. As EU countries have enough stability to hold prices at a fixed rate: for them loosing money on energy should not be a problem, in opposition to a company which actual purpose is to make money. With this kind of market, a simple crisis can make the prices climb pretty high.
These may be my socialist feeling awakening, but I believe the state is here to give lasting cheap commodities. A company is here to make money.
These may be my socialist feeling awakening, but I believe the state is here to give lasting cheap commodities. A company is here to make money.
AG0525 (July 30, 2008 at 11:41 am)
At the end, all this liberasation means that goverments will force energy distributors to allow one more distributor ... so you electrisity bill could look like: Nuclear fac/windmill + main high voltage distributor + smaller distributor + another distributor + local distributor + street distributor + your neighbour. Wow ... no wonder the electristy prices wil skyrocket, even having in mind that production cost will not be so high. The video shows only one side and doesnt go deeper enough.
AG0525 (July 30, 2008 at 11:39 am)
Well i am from Lithuania, considered dumb, so explain me how energy "liberasation" works.
As video showed, we have: produsers, distributors and ... and consumers.
So, i dont get it. At the end, we have distributors, wich decides the price for end user. And how can we have MORE distributors ("competition") if there is ONLY ONE cabel and GAS PIPE going to your house. ONE! There is only ONE high voltage cable grid. ONE!
As video showed, we have: produsers, distributors and ... and consumers.
So, i dont get it. At the end, we have distributors, wich decides the price for end user. And how can we have MORE distributors ("competition") if there is ONLY ONE cabel and GAS PIPE going to your house. ONE! There is only ONE high voltage cable grid. ONE!
wutru (June 30, 2008 at 11:24 pm)
lol @ socialism
workstationnumlock (May 5, 2008 at 5:40 am)
Two observations:
1) I haven't seen one positive comment about the liberalisation. I think most people posting are Continental Europeans, but still...
2) The video talks about "Britain, where there has been liberalisation for several years now". Yes, that would be since Thatcher privatised the industry in *1989*, *before the European Union even existed*.
1) I haven't seen one positive comment about the liberalisation. I think most people posting are Continental Europeans, but still...
2) The video talks about "Britain, where there has been liberalisation for several years now". Yes, that would be since Thatcher privatised the industry in *1989*, *before the European Union even existed*.
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