Soldato
Why choose just gas when not everyone has Gas. Everyone has elec which is a lot more than £7/month.
For some people with both Gas and Elec, the charges are almost £30/month
I am with Simon on this however.
Really £30 a month for very reliable use as much as you want when you want energy is a bit of a bargain compared to the costs of most things.
Personally I would rather pay that than have a significantly poorer, or not 24/7 service.
Obviously I am only talking of the provision charge here not the unit costs, and by 24/7 service i mean one that has all the capacity we need basically.
Most things in the UK do not have any where near enough capacity for peak demand periods.
I had a bee in my bonnet earlier in the thread with SC and proposing a quasi-consolidation into UC but conceded that for fairness it needed to remain for households who were net contributors to the grid via solar.
I can see the argument that rural areas could cost more to maintain than urban but then surely the volume density of customers in urban cities centres would subsidise these additional costs for rural. SC should be universal across the entire country, irrespective of location and equalised to maintain that universal cost.
I am somewhat agog at what the SC charge includes these days, whether it be for infrastructure maintenance, previous failed suppliers, green levies, another cheeky contractual protection steal for the producers or simply another blag for tax.
I don't have any issue with standardising SC. For most of the UK its very close anyway.