Quote Originally Posted by BCram View Post
Islay, I think the problem is that trying to sell fixed price contracts at competitive prices to grow their business, they are mistakenly thinking that this is a good way for an energy company to operate. EDF for example are part owned by the French government. Maybe we should review our free market approach?
Opening up the electricity and gas billing market without ensuring that all electricity and billings companies were fully funded was a big mistake by Ofgem and we are now paying the costs of all these companies going bust through the greatly increased of the daily standing charge on our bills.
Incidentally there is no standing charge on heating oil bills because heating oil customers are responsible for the installation and cost of their own oil tank.