EDF Energy customers face higher bills from today
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I recently moved away from EDF. I'm now saving a bundle even before these new rate increases.
I can't see why anyone would use them.
Profitable and competitively priced or non-profit and inefficient. It's your call.
I can't see why anyone would use them.
Profitable and competitively priced or non-profit and inefficient. It's your call.
Who did you change to? I'm gonna look into it but I'll wait for the others to raise their prices first.
British Gas, using their online deal. I went through uSwitch.com.
No guarantee you'll beat the hikes because I suspect everyone was waiting for someone to jump, and now they have, everyone will be after them lemming-like.
However, if you're quick and lucky, then that's a good plan. If you're a Quidco member (or even if you aren't), then it's worth looking to see if they have any deals too.
I switched to a fixed-to-2011 deal last month. Cost me £2 pcm extra but I just need a 5% hike to see me in profit - I think beating that is about as likely as me submitting this post.
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i have storage heating I'm on payg on average could i save if i jump ship?
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Yup we are with EDF aswell so again we are being hit in the pocket. Bloody companies are really starting to get on my nerves. Its a monopoly all this business and they can get away with it 
EDIT: so the others will follow? anyone wanna bet that british gas will the highest? lol
EDIT: so the others will follow? anyone wanna bet that british gas will the highest? lol
This is fantastic news 
I completely agree. The only realistic solution (and a green one, too) is nuclear. Quite a large proportion of our electricity is nuclear generated at the moment. What a pity it's French!
Just look at what happens to health care when it's profitable *cough* america *cough*. Non profit is the way to go if you have to choose between either of the systems, in a capitalist system people just get ripped off for essentials due to the oligopolies.
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Be like living in ******* Zimbabwe here soon.
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On a rather serious (ie over my head!) investing forum I lurk on, someone who works in the industry said that actually nuclear reactors can be built pretty quickly if necessary. They're fairly simply technology when push comes to shove... mainly plumbing.
It's the planning & inquiry stages which take forever, so I'm hopeful that when the going gets sticky (as it could do any day now given the state of out energy infrastructure) someone will make some brave, if unpopular decisions, and shoehorn a few new reactors into existing sites.
Of course the big problem is that all over the world many nations are building reactors, and we'd have to take our place in the queue for key parts (and fuel, though Sellafield gives us a head start there).
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On a rather serious (ie over my head!) investing forum I lurk on, someone who works in the industry said that actually nuclear reactors can be built pretty quickly if necessary. They're fairly simply technology when push comes to shove... mainly plumbing.
It's the planning & inquiry stages which take forever, so I'm hopeful that when the going gets sticky (as it could do any day now given the state of out energy infrastructure) someone will make some brave, if unpopular decisions, and shoehorn a few new reactors into existing sites.
Of course the big problem is that all over the world many nations are building reactors, and we'd have to take our place in the queue for key parts (and fuel, though Sellafield gives us a head start there).
Andrew McP
It's the hoops we have to jump through before a reactor can be built that is the problem as you have said. Construction to completion is relatively fast.
The Langeled pipeline was built to ensure security of supply.
Planning Regs are currently under review with the intention of removing the decision from local authorities to a national panel. Timescale for this happening is 2010 though.
