I would desperately like to see UK government decouple the price of electricity from gas. We have just about the most expensive consumer energy prices in the world…but lazy journalism won’t get us there.
This piece is a recycled press release from a think tank…admittedly not a rightwing one, but it’s not based on the kind of research you might find in a journal.
@JugglingWithEggs There is a similar situation with the few district central heating thermal plants in Oslo. The price per kWh is also tied to electricity prices.
Which is extremely unfair to those who use the service as the costs of creating this heat are pretty much static.
I think the situation with district heating is even more dire, because no one is explaining that these are monopolies.
Residents in properties supplied by a heat network cannot switch suppliers to find better value, which is a key difference from the gas and electricity market.
@JugglingWithEggs Exactly!
The heat energy is not traded on any markets either as in the case with electricity.
Juggling With Eggs
Eggs now in different baskets.