MILLIONAIRE philanthropist Matt Stockdale has launched an energy company to slash bills and cut out the middleman. Not-for-profit At Cost Energy will buy gas and electricity direct from wholesalers and offer savings averaging £320 per year. Give it a few years, then see what the price difference is. A non-profit might have lower prices than for profit firms.
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TimWorstall on 28th Feb 2010 (via timworstall.com)
to my British readers whose electricity provider is EDF (mine was when I was in London) for keeping my electricity bills low. They are, very, and that is not only because an awful lot of France's energy is nuclear. Sarko has decreed that electricity prices should go up by only 2% here, so the electricity companies are going to make up the difference from their customers in other countries. Ta...
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janestheone on 11th Aug 2008 (via janestheones.blogspot.com)
A Danish company has won a contest to find a new design for electricity pylons, the Department of Energy and Climate Change said today.
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Telegraph on 14th Oct 2011 (via telegraph.feedsportal.com)
The Conservatives have launched their proposals to help low income families with their gas and electricity bills.
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PoliticsCoUk on 22nd Aug 2008 (via politics.co.uk)
EDF Energy, the electricity and gas company, is prepared to call in the Competition Commission to investigate the regulation of electricity distribution networks, the utility has signalled
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FT on 2nd Nov 2009 (via traxfer.ft.com)
Wind energy could easily provide for more than one fourth of the EU's electricity by 2030 provided that wind farms are better connected to existing electricity grids and that a new grid to exploit the offshore wind industry is built, according to a stakeholder action plan detailing research and political priorities for the sector.
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EurActiv on 29th Jul 2008 (via euractiv.com)
The Conservatives have launched their proposals to help low income families with their gas and electricity bills, with cards offering discounts on customers' bills.
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PoliticsCoUk on 22nd Aug 2008 (via politics.co.uk)
The Sunday Telegraph reported that next month’s annual report from Ofgem is expected to say that electricity customers are paying more than £1 billion a year to subsidise windfarms and other forms of renewable energy, as part of a Government scheme to force energy companies to fund green energy.
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OpenEurope on 25th Jan 2010 (via openeurope.org.uk)